1 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
2 ===========================
7 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
12 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
14 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
15 ===========================
20 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`.
22 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
23 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
26 Command Line Interface
27 ----------------------
29 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`.
31 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes.
33 Fix bug in dump header.
35 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
36 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
37 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
42 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
44 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
45 =========================
50 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`.
52 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
55 Command Line Interface
56 ----------------------
58 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
60 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
61 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
62 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
64 New default output format to 3
66 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
67 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
68 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
69 default format changes.
74 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
76 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
77 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
78 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
79 or tree view to resume.
81 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
82 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
83 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
86 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
87 they were when you postponed in the final message.
91 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
92 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
93 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
94 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
95 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
99 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
100 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
101 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
102 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
103 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
104 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
108 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
109 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
111 Stop display of application/* parts
113 By default gnus displays all application/* parts such as
114 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
115 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
116 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
117 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
118 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
119 application/* add application/* to your customization. If you want
120 to allow application/* then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
123 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
125 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
126 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
127 only tagged the current thread.)
129 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers.
131 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
132 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
133 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
135 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
137 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
138 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
139 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
140 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
141 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
142 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
143 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
145 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
147 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
148 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
149 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
154 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive.
156 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
159 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
161 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
164 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
165 ===========================
170 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
172 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
173 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
174 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
177 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
178 ===========================
180 Command Line Interface
181 ----------------------
183 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
188 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
190 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
191 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
192 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
194 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
195 ===========================
200 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
201 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
203 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
204 ===========================
206 Command Line Interface
207 ----------------------
209 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
211 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
212 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
213 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
218 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
220 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
221 ===========================
223 Command Line Interface
224 ----------------------
226 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
231 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
233 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
234 ===========================
239 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
241 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
242 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
243 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
245 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
247 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
249 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
250 ===========================
255 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
257 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
262 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
264 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
265 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
266 the original colours.
268 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
269 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
271 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
273 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
274 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
275 bug, and hence the test.
277 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
278 =========================
280 General (Xapian 1.4+)
281 ---------------------
283 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
285 Support for single argument date: queries
287 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
289 Support for blocking opens
291 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
292 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
294 Support for named queries
296 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
297 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
298 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
305 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
306 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
307 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
308 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
310 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
312 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
317 Support for compile time options
319 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
320 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
323 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
325 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
326 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
327 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
328 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
329 scripts to ignore it.
334 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
336 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
337 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
338 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
340 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
341 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
342 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
343 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
344 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
345 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
346 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
348 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
349 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
352 Make internal address completion customizable
354 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
355 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
356 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
357 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
360 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
362 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
363 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
364 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
365 completion for the current buffer.
367 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
368 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
369 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
373 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
374 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
375 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
376 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
377 will be added instead.
379 Face customization is easier
381 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
382 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
383 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
384 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
386 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
391 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
396 Go bindings moved to contrib
398 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
400 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
402 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
403 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
405 The same issue occured with sort modes.
407 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
408 ===========================
415 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
416 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
418 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
420 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
422 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
423 ===========================
428 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
430 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
435 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
440 Use `env` to locate perl.
445 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
447 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
449 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
451 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
453 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
454 =========================
461 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
462 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
464 Limited support for S/MIME messages
466 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
467 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
468 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
473 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
474 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
475 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
477 Command Line Interface
478 ----------------------
480 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
482 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
487 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
492 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
494 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
495 parts are now included in replies.
497 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
498 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
499 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
500 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
502 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
504 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
506 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
508 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
509 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
510 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
511 forwards only the current message.
513 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
515 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
516 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
517 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
518 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
519 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
520 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
521 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
522 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
525 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
526 longer generate empty buffers
528 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
529 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
530 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
531 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
532 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
534 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
536 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
539 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
541 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
544 Address completion improvements
546 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
547 you previously configured one, customize the variable
548 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
549 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
550 interactive address completion.
552 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
554 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
555 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
556 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
561 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
562 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
563 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
569 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
570 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
571 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
572 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
573 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
574 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
576 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
577 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
578 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
579 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
580 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
581 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
583 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
584 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
586 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
587 =========================
592 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
595 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
597 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
598 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
599 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
601 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
602 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
604 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
605 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
606 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
608 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
610 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
611 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
612 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
613 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
614 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
615 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
620 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
621 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
624 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
627 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
629 Command Line Interface
630 ----------------------
632 Database revision tracking
634 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
635 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
636 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
637 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
639 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
641 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
642 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
643 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
644 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
645 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
646 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
647 manual page for further information.
652 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
654 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
655 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
657 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
659 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
660 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
661 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
663 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
665 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
667 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
668 customization as well.
670 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
672 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
674 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
676 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
678 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
679 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
680 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
681 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
683 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
685 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
686 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
687 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
688 this variable to 10000.
693 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
694 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
696 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
698 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
699 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
700 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
701 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
702 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
703 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
704 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
705 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
706 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
709 Database revision tracking
711 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
712 query parser and the new function
713 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
715 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
719 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
720 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
721 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
722 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
727 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
729 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
730 ===========================
735 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
737 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
738 ===========================
743 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
745 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
746 =========================
748 Command-Line Interface
749 ----------------------
751 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
753 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
754 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
755 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
757 Path to gpg is now configurable
759 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
760 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
765 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
767 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
772 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
777 Support messages without Message-IDs.
782 Undeprecate single message mboxes
784 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
785 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
787 New error logging facility
789 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
790 output formerly printed to stderr.
792 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
794 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
796 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
798 Fix for rounding of seconds
803 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
805 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
806 docmumentation has been removed.
808 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
810 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
811 some material from the relicensed wiki.
816 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
817 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
818 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
823 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
824 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
825 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
826 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
827 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
828 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
831 git checkout config origin/config
833 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
835 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
836 =========================
841 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
842 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
843 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
844 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
845 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
846 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
847 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
849 Command-Line Interface
850 ----------------------
852 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
854 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
855 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
856 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
857 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
858 script callers should still check the return value.
860 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
862 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
863 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
864 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
865 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
866 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
867 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
868 and returning success even if indexing fails).
870 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
872 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
873 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
874 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
876 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
878 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
879 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
880 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
881 currently unmaintained.
883 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
885 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
886 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
887 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
888 have at least `N` files associated with them.
890 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
892 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
893 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
894 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
895 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
896 count of duplicate addresses.
901 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
903 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
904 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
905 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
908 Improved handling of the unread tag
910 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
911 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
912 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
913 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
914 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
915 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
916 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
918 Expanded default saved search settings
920 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
921 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
923 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
925 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
926 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
927 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
929 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
931 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
932 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
933 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
934 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
935 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
936 the variable for details.
941 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
943 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
944 Representing these independently of the database version number will
945 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
946 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
948 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
950 Previously, library users were required to call
951 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
952 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
953 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
954 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
955 too out of date for that API.
957 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
959 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
960 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
961 atomic section will be aborted.
963 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
964 `notmuch_database_destroy`
966 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
968 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
969 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
970 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
971 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
972 messages into the same thread.
977 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
978 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
979 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
980 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
981 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
982 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
987 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
988 from the config file. Use something like:
992 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
993 "footer": "</body></html>",
1002 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1007 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1008 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1009 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1011 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1012 ===========================
1017 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1019 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1021 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1023 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1024 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1026 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1028 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1031 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1032 ===========================
1034 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1039 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1041 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1043 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1045 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1047 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1053 Use --quick when starting emacs
1055 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1057 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1059 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1061 Command-Line Interface
1062 ----------------------
1064 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1065 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1070 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1072 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1073 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1075 Fix for phrase indexing
1077 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1078 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1079 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1084 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1086 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1087 unintentionally removed.
1089 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1090 =========================
1095 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1096 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1097 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1098 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1099 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1100 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1101 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1102 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1103 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1109 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1111 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1112 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1113 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1114 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1115 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1116 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1117 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1118 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1120 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1122 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1123 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1124 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1125 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1128 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1130 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1131 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1132 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1133 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1134 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1135 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1136 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1141 Notmuch database upgrade
1143 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1144 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1145 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1146 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1147 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1148 released version of Notmuch before now.
1150 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1152 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1153 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1154 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1155 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1157 Message header parsing changes
1159 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1160 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1161 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1162 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1163 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1164 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1166 Command-Line Interface
1167 ----------------------
1169 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1171 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1173 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1175 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1177 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1179 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1180 user does not want it.
1182 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1184 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1185 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1186 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1187 support formatted output.
1189 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1191 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1192 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1193 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1201 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1202 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1203 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1204 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1205 `~/.emacs` with these.
1207 Changed format for saved searches
1209 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1210 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1211 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1212 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1215 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1216 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1217 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1218 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1220 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1221 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1222 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1224 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1225 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1226 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1227 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1228 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1230 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1232 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1233 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1234 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1236 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1238 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1239 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1240 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1241 message had been unread).
1243 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1244 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1245 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1246 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1248 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1249 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1250 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1252 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1253 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1254 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1255 to tags already present.
1259 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1260 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1261 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1262 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1263 these differ from each other.
1264 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1266 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1268 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1269 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1270 for these Emacs versions.
1272 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1274 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1275 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1277 Bug fixes for sender identities
1279 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1280 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1281 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1283 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1285 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1286 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1287 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1288 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1290 Reply pushes mark before signature
1292 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1293 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1294 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1296 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1298 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1299 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1305 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1306 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1308 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1309 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1310 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1311 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1313 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1314 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1315 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1316 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1317 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1319 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1321 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1322 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1324 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1325 =========================
1327 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1328 ---------------------------------------
1330 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1331 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1332 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1333 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1334 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1335 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1336 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1340 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1341 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1343 Command-Line Interface
1344 ----------------------
1346 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1348 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1349 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1350 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1351 print for each message.
1353 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1354 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1355 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1356 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1358 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1360 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1361 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1362 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1364 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1366 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1367 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1368 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1369 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1371 `notmuch compact` command
1373 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1374 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1375 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1376 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1377 move the compacted database into place.
1382 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1384 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1385 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1386 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1387 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1388 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1389 and multiple threads.
1391 Using `notmuch-tree`
1393 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1395 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1396 search, show and tree mode itself)
1398 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1401 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1402 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1404 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1406 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1407 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1408 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1409 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1410 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1411 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1412 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1414 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1416 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1417 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1418 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1419 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1420 thread when the search was performed.
1422 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1424 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1425 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1426 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1428 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1430 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1431 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1434 Built-in help improvements
1436 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1437 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1438 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1440 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1442 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1443 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1444 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1446 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1448 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1449 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1451 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1453 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1454 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1455 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1456 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1458 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1460 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1461 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1462 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1463 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1465 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1467 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1468 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1469 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1471 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1473 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1474 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1475 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1477 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1479 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1480 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1481 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1482 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1483 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1485 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1487 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1488 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1489 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1490 the body part of the message.
1495 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1496 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1497 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1499 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1500 =========================
1502 Command-Line Interface
1503 ----------------------
1505 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1507 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1508 folder and notmuch index.
1510 `notmuch count --batch` option
1512 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1513 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1515 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1517 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1518 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1519 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1522 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1524 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1525 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1526 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1527 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1528 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1531 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1533 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1534 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1536 Top level option to specify configuration file
1538 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1539 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1541 Bash command-line completion
1543 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1544 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1545 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1546 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1547 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1548 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1549 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1550 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1551 bash-completion package.
1553 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1558 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1560 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1561 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1562 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1563 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1564 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1565 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1566 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1567 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1569 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1571 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1572 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1573 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1575 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1577 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1578 previous thread in the search results.
1580 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1582 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1583 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1585 Faster search and show
1587 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1588 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1589 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1590 threads should show faster.
1594 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1595 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1596 in question was now removed from this release.
1601 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1602 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1607 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1609 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1610 ===========================
1615 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1617 Internal test framework changes
1618 -------------------------------
1620 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1621 being unimplemented.
1623 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1624 ===========================
1626 Internal test framework changes
1627 -------------------------------
1629 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1630 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1632 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1633 =========================
1638 Date range search support
1640 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1641 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1642 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1643 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1644 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1647 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1649 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1650 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1651 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1652 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1653 but may be removed in a future release.
1655 Command-Line Interface
1656 ----------------------
1658 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1660 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1661 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1663 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1665 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1666 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1667 officially deprecated.
1669 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1671 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1672 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1673 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1675 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1677 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1678 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1681 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1682 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1683 dump/restore format.
1685 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1687 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1688 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1689 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1691 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1693 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1694 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1695 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1697 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1699 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1700 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1701 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1702 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1707 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1709 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1710 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1711 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1712 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1714 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1716 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1717 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1718 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1719 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1720 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1721 the behavior of this, see
1722 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1723 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1725 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1726 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1727 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1729 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1731 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1732 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1735 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1737 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1738 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1739 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1740 simply displayed in place of the message.
1742 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1744 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1745 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1747 Improved text/calendar content handling
1749 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1750 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1751 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1752 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1754 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1756 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1757 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1758 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1759 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1761 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1763 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1764 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1765 for HTML email containing images.
1767 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1769 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1771 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1773 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1776 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1778 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1779 the point where it was.
1781 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1783 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1784 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1785 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1786 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1787 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1789 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1791 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1792 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1793 thread instead of the message id.
1795 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1796 -----------------------------
1798 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1799 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1800 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1801 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1802 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1803 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1804 further details and installation.
1809 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1811 Internal test framework changes
1812 -------------------------------
1814 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1816 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1817 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1818 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1819 can result in buggy behavior.
1821 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1822 =========================
1827 Maildir tag synchronization
1829 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1830 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1831 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1832 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1833 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1834 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1837 Command-Line Interface
1838 ----------------------
1840 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1841 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1842 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1843 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1844 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1850 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1852 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1854 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1855 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1856 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1858 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1860 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1861 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1862 span multiple lines.
1864 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1866 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1867 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1868 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1869 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1870 inside the result or message.
1872 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1874 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1875 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1877 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1878 user-specified formatting
1880 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1881 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1882 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1883 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1884 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1886 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1887 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1889 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1890 ===========================
1895 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1896 compilation error for this contrib package.
1898 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1899 ===========================
1904 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1906 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1907 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1908 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1909 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1911 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1912 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1915 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1916 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1917 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1918 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1921 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1923 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1926 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1927 =========================
1929 Command-Line Interface
1930 ----------------------
1934 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1935 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1936 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1937 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1939 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1940 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1941 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1942 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1946 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1947 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1949 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1950 tag in your query, for example:
1952 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1954 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1955 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1957 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1958 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1960 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1962 Raw show format changes
1964 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1965 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1966 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1967 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1968 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1969 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1970 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1971 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1973 Listing configuration items
1975 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1981 Changes to tagging interface
1983 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1984 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1985 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1986 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1987 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1988 for more information.
1990 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1991 may need to update in custom configurations.
1993 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1995 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1996 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1997 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1998 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2001 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2002 -----------------------------
2004 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2005 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2006 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2007 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2008 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2009 contrib/ from now on.
2014 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2015 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2017 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2018 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2020 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2021 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2022 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2024 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2025 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2027 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2028 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2029 returning the new database object or directory object.
2036 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2037 compatible with go 1.
2039 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2040 =========================
2042 Command-Line Interface
2043 ----------------------
2047 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2048 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2049 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2050 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2052 Mail store folder/file ignore
2054 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2055 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2056 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2058 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2059 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2061 Unified help and manual pages
2063 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2064 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2067 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2069 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2070 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2078 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2079 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2080 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2081 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2083 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2085 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2086 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2088 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2091 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2092 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2093 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2095 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2097 should be changed to:
2099 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2101 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2103 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2104 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2106 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2108 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2109 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2110 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2111 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2112 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2113 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2117 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2118 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2119 of Mailing List Archives.
2121 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2123 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2124 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2127 Show view archiving key binding changes
2129 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2130 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2131 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2132 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2133 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2136 Support text/calendar MIME type
2138 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2141 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2143 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2144 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2145 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2146 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2148 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2150 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2151 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2152 messages blue by default in the search view.
2156 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2157 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2164 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2167 Python bindings changes
2168 -----------------------
2170 Python 3.2 compatibility
2172 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2174 Added missing unicode conversions
2176 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2177 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2178 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2183 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2185 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2186 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2187 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2188 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2189 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2191 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2192 ===========================
2197 Fix error handling in python bindings
2199 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2200 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2201 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2202 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2204 Quote MML tags in replies
2206 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2207 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2208 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2209 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2210 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2211 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2212 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2213 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2215 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2216 =========================
2218 Command-Line Interface
2219 ----------------------
2223 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2224 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2225 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2226 importing new messages into the database.
2228 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2230 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2231 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2232 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2237 Automatic tag query optimization
2239 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2240 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2241 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2243 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2245 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2246 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2247 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2252 Reduction of memory leaks
2254 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2255 and fixed in this release.
2262 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2263 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2264 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2267 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2269 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2270 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2271 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2274 Improvements in saved search management
2276 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2277 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2278 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2280 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2282 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2283 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2284 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2286 New face for crypto parts headers
2288 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2289 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2290 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2293 Use space as default thousands separator
2295 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2296 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2297 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2299 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2300 buttonized id: links
2302 New function notmuch-show-advance
2304 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2305 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2306 be bound to SPC with:
2308 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2310 Various performance improvements
2315 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2316 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2319 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2320 ===========================
2325 Fix crash in python bindings
2327 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2328 for some, but not all users.
2330 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2331 ===========================
2336 Fix `--help` argument
2338 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2339 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2340 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2342 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2343 =========================
2345 New build and testing features
2346 ------------------------------
2348 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2349 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2350 prerequisites is improved.
2352 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2354 New command-line features
2355 -------------------------
2357 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2359 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2360 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2363 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2365 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2366 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2367 favour of using stdout.
2369 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2371 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2372 limit the number of results shown.
2374 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2376 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2377 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2380 New emacs UI features
2381 ---------------------
2383 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2385 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2386 starting with "tag:".
2388 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2390 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2391 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2393 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2395 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2397 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2399 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2400 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2405 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2407 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2409 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2410 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2411 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2412 requires a database rebuild:
2414 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2415 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2417 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2419 New collection of add-on tools
2420 ------------------------------
2422 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2423 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2424 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2427 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2429 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2430 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2431 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2433 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2434 ========================
2436 New, general features
2437 ---------------------
2439 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2441 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2442 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2443 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2444 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2445 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2452 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2453 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2455 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2459 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2460 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2461 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2464 Python bindings changes
2465 -----------------------
2467 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2469 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2470 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2471 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2472 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2473 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2474 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2476 Ruby bindings changes
2477 ---------------------
2479 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2480 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2481 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2482 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2487 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2489 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2490 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2492 Reply formatting cleanup
2493 ------------------------
2495 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2496 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2498 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2499 ========================
2501 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2503 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2504 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2505 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2506 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2509 Improved Build system portability
2511 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2512 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2513 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2515 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2517 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2519 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2521 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2522 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2523 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2525 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2526 ========================
2528 Vim interface improvements
2529 --------------------------
2531 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2533 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2534 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2535 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2536 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2537 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2539 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2541 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2542 * fix compose temp file name
2544 Python Bindings changes
2545 -----------------------
2547 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2549 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2550 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2552 Build-System improvements
2553 -------------------------
2555 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2557 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2560 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2561 ==========================
2566 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2568 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2569 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2571 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2572 =======================
2574 New, general features
2575 ---------------------
2577 Folder-based searching
2579 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2580 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2581 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2585 For example, one might use things such as:
2591 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2592 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2594 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2595 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2596 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2597 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2599 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2600 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2601 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2604 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2605 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2607 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2609 Support for PGP/MIME
2611 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2612 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2613 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2615 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2617 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2618 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2620 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2621 notmuch will receive these tags.
2623 New command-line features
2624 -------------------------
2626 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2628 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2629 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2631 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2633 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2634 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2635 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2637 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2639 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2640 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2641 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2642 which parts a signature part applies).
2644 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2646 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2647 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2648 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2649 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2650 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2653 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2655 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2656 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2657 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2658 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2659 by translating it internally to the new call.
2661 Performance improvements
2662 ------------------------
2664 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2666 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2667 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2668 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2670 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2671 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2673 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2675 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2676 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2677 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2679 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2680 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2681 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2682 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2684 Faster initial indexing
2686 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2687 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2688 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2690 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2692 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2693 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2694 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2695 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2697 New emacs-interface features
2698 ----------------------------
2700 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2702 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2703 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2704 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2705 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2706 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2707 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2709 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2711 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2712 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2713 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2714 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2716 User-selectable From address
2718 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2719 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2720 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2721 will prompt for the from address to use.
2723 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2724 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2725 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2727 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2728 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2729 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2732 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2734 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2735 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2737 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2739 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2741 ----- Original Message -----
2743 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2744 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2745 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2746 citations work much like conventional citations.
2748 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2750 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2751 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2752 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2753 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2754 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2756 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2757 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2759 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2761 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2762 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2763 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2765 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2767 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2768 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2769 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2770 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2771 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2773 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2775 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2778 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2780 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2782 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2784 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2787 Vim interface improvements
2788 --------------------------
2790 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2792 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2793 * Implementing archive in show view
2794 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2795 * Add delete commands
2798 Bindings improvements
2799 ---------------------
2801 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2803 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2804 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2806 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2808 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2812 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2813 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2814 `list(Messages)` works now
2815 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2817 These allow, for example:
2819 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2821 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2823 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2829 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2831 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2834 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2836 New build-system features
2837 -------------------------
2839 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2841 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2842 the configure script from some other directory:
2849 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2851 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2852 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2853 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2854 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2855 manual invocation of configure.
2857 New test-suite feature
2858 ----------------------
2860 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2862 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2863 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2864 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2865 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2866 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2869 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2871 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2872 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2873 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2874 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2875 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2876 are updated to take advantage of this.
2878 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2880 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2881 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2882 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2883 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2889 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2891 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2892 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2893 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2895 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2897 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2899 to:user@elsewhere.com
2901 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2903 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2905 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2907 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2908 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2909 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2912 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2913 from the Received headers in some cases
2915 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2916 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2918 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2920 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2922 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2924 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2925 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2926 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2928 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2929 -------------------------
2931 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2933 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2934 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2935 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2937 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2939 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2940 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2941 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2944 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2946 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2947 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2948 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2949 fixed to avoid this bug.
2951 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2953 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2954 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2956 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2957 ========================
2959 New, general features
2960 ---------------------
2962 Maildir-flag synchronization
2964 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2965 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2974 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2976 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2977 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2978 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2979 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2981 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2982 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2983 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2984 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2987 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2989 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2990 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2991 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2993 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2994 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2996 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2997 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2999 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3000 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3001 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3003 New library features
3004 --------------------
3006 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3008 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3009 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3010 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3011 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3013 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3014 message with the new function:
3016 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3018 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3019 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3020 over all available filenames for a given message.
3022 New command-line features
3023 -------------------------
3025 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3027 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3028 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3029 access to the mail store itself.
3031 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3032 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3033 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3034 name of a script containing:
3036 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3038 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3039 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3045 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3047 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3049 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3051 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3052 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3053 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3054 now produces nothing).
3056 Emacs interface improvements
3057 ----------------------------
3059 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3061 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3063 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3065 Display current thread subject in a header line
3067 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3069 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3071 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3072 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3073 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3074 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3075 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3076 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3077 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3079 Vim interface improvements
3080 --------------------------
3082 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3084 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3085 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3091 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3093 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3094 ========================
3096 New command-line features
3097 -------------------------
3099 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3101 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3102 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3103 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3105 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3106 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3107 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3108 scripts. For example:
3110 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3111 <operations-on> "$file"
3114 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3116 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3117 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3118 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3119 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3120 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3121 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3123 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3125 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3126 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3127 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3128 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3130 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3132 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3133 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3134 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3135 default rather than Bcc.
3137 New library features
3138 --------------------
3140 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3142 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3143 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3148 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3150 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3151 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3152 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3153 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3154 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3155 notmuch customize interface.
3157 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3159 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3160 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3161 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3162 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3164 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3166 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3167 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3168 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3169 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3171 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3173 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3174 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3175 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3176 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3177 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3178 notmuch customize interface.
3180 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3182 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3183 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3184 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3185 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3186 notmuch customize interface.
3188 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3190 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3191 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3192 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3193 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3196 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3198 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3199 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3200 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3203 New build-system features
3204 -------------------------
3206 Various portability fixes have been applied
3208 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3209 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3210 more portable than ever before.
3212 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3214 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3215 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3216 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3218 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3219 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3220 automatically run ldconfig.
3222 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3223 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3224 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3226 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3227 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3228 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3229 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3231 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3233 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3234 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3235 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3236 used in the resulting Makefile.
3238 New test-suite features
3239 -----------------------
3241 New modularization of test suite
3243 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3244 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3245 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3246 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3247 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3248 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3249 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3250 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3252 New testing of emacs interface
3254 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3255 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3256 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3257 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3258 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3259 database via the FCC setting.
3264 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3266 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3267 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3268 persistent error of the form:
3270 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3272 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3273 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3275 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3277 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3278 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3279 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3281 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3283 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3284 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3285 parsing the notmuch results).
3287 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3289 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3292 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3293 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3294 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3299 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3301 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3302 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3303 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3304 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3305 the emacs interface.
3307 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3309 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3310 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3311 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3313 Python-binding fixes
3314 --------------------
3316 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3318 Debian-specific fixes
3319 ---------------------
3321 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3323 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3324 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3325 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3328 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3329 ==========================
3334 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3336 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3337 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3338 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3339 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3341 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3343 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3344 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3345 want notmuch to crash.
3350 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3352 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3353 directory does not exist
3358 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3360 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3361 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3363 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3364 ========================
3366 New command-line features
3367 -------------------------
3369 User-configurable tags for new messages
3371 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3372 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3373 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3374 to specify this value.
3376 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3378 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3379 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3380 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3382 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3384 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3385 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3387 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3389 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3390 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3391 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3392 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3393 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3396 Indication of author names that match a search
3398 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3399 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3400 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3401 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3402 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3403 messages in the thread are listed first.
3405 New: Python bindings
3406 --------------------
3408 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3409 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3410 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3411 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3413 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3414 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3415 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3418 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3419 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3420 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3422 Emacs interface improvements
3423 ----------------------------
3425 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3427 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3428 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3429 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3430 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3431 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3432 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3433 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3434 but without any of the disadvantages).
3436 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3437 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3438 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3441 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3442 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3443 instead running something like:
3445 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3447 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3448 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3449 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3452 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3454 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3455 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3456 tweaked by the user.
3458 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3459 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3460 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3463 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3464 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3465 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3468 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3470 This support currently relies on an external program,
3471 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3472 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3473 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3474 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3475 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3478 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3479 notmuch) is available via:
3481 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3483 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3484 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3485 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3487 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3489 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3490 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3491 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3492 making this automatic in a future release.
3494 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3496 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3497 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3498 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3499 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3500 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3501 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3504 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3506 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3507 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3508 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3510 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3512 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3513 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3514 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3516 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3517 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3518 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3519 other representation.
3521 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3522 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3525 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3527 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3528 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3529 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3531 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3532 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3533 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3535 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3537 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3538 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3539 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3540 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3541 to display the search result.
3543 More flexible handling of header visibility
3545 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3546 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3547 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3548 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3549 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3550 with the 'h' keybinding.
3552 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3553 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3554 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3556 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3558 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3560 Customizable formatting of search results
3562 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3563 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3564 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3566 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3568 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3570 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3575 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3577 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3578 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3579 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3580 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3586 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3588 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3589 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3591 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3593 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3594 accept are now all accepted.
3599 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3601 Better display of output from failed tests
3603 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3604 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3606 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3607 ========================
3609 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3610 detailed release notes this time!
3612 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3613 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3615 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3616 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3617 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3618 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3625 Better guessing of From: header
3627 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3628 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3629 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3630 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3631 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3634 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3636 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3637 guaranteed to match all messages.
3639 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3641 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3642 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3643 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3644 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3645 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3648 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3651 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3652 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3653 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3654 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3659 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3661 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3662 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3663 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3664 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3666 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3668 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3670 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3671 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3672 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3674 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3676 Previously, the user might see:
3678 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3682 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3684 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3685 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3686 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3687 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3689 Emacs client features
3690 ---------------------
3692 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3694 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3695 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3696 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3697 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3698 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3700 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3703 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3704 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3705 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3706 search with the '*' binding.
3708 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3710 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3711 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3714 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3716 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3717 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3718 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3720 Build-system features
3721 ---------------------
3723 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3725 Add support to configure for many standard options
3727 We include actual support for:
3729 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3731 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3733 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3734 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3736 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3737 separate "make install-emacs"
3739 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3741 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3742 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3743 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3745 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3748 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3749 ========================
3751 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3753 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3754 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3756 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3757 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3758 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3759 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3760 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3761 tags from messages in a thread.
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