1 Notmuch 0.25 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
4 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
5 ===========================
10 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
15 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
17 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
18 ===========================
23 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
25 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
26 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
29 Command Line Interface
30 ----------------------
32 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
34 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
36 Fix bug in dump header
38 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
39 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
40 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
45 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
47 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
48 =========================
53 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
55 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
58 Command Line Interface
59 ----------------------
61 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
63 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
64 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
65 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
67 New default output format to 3
69 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
70 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
71 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
72 default format changes.
77 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
79 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
80 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
81 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
82 or tree view to resume.
84 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
85 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
86 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
89 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
90 they were when you postponed in the final message.
94 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
95 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
96 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
97 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
98 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
102 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
103 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
104 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
105 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
106 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
107 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
111 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
112 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
114 Stop display of `application/*` parts
116 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
117 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
118 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
119 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
120 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
121 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
122 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
123 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
126 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
128 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
129 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
130 only tagged the current thread.)
132 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
134 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
135 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
136 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
138 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
140 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
141 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
142 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
143 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
144 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
145 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
146 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
148 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
150 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
151 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
152 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
157 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
159 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
162 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
164 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
167 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
168 ===========================
173 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
175 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
176 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
177 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
180 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
181 ===========================
183 Command Line Interface
184 ----------------------
186 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
191 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
193 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
194 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
195 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
197 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
198 ===========================
203 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
204 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
206 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
207 ===========================
209 Command Line Interface
210 ----------------------
212 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
214 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
215 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
216 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
221 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
223 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
224 ===========================
226 Command Line Interface
227 ----------------------
229 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
234 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
236 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
237 ===========================
242 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
244 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
245 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
246 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
248 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
250 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
252 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
253 ===========================
258 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
260 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
265 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
267 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
268 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
269 the original colours.
271 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
272 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
274 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
276 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
277 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
278 bug, and hence the test.
280 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
281 =========================
283 General (Xapian 1.4+)
284 ---------------------
286 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
288 Support for single argument date: queries
290 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
292 Support for blocking opens
294 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
295 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
297 Support for named queries
299 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
300 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
301 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
308 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
309 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
310 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
311 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
313 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
315 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
320 Support for compile time options
322 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
323 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
326 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
328 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
329 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
330 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
331 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
332 scripts to ignore it.
337 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
339 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
340 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
341 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
343 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
344 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
345 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
346 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
347 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
348 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
349 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
351 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
352 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
355 Make internal address completion customizable
357 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
358 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
359 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
360 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
363 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
365 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
366 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
367 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
368 completion for the current buffer.
370 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
371 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
372 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
376 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
377 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
378 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
379 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
380 will be added instead.
382 Face customization is easier
384 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
385 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
386 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
387 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
389 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
394 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
399 Go bindings moved to contrib
401 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
403 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
405 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
406 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
408 The same issue occured with sort modes.
410 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
411 ===========================
418 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
419 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
421 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
423 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
425 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
426 ===========================
431 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
433 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
438 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
443 Use `env` to locate perl.
448 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
450 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
452 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
454 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
456 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
457 =========================
464 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
465 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
467 Limited support for S/MIME messages
469 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
470 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
471 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
476 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
477 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
478 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
480 Command Line Interface
481 ----------------------
483 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
485 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
490 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
495 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
497 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
498 parts are now included in replies.
500 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
501 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
502 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
503 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
505 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
507 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
509 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
511 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
512 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
513 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
514 forwards only the current message.
516 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
518 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
519 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
520 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
521 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
522 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
523 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
524 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
525 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
528 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
529 longer generate empty buffers
531 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
532 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
533 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
534 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
535 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
537 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
539 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
542 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
544 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
547 Address completion improvements
549 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
550 you previously configured one, customize the variable
551 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
552 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
553 interactive address completion.
555 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
557 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
558 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
559 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
564 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
565 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
566 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
572 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
573 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
574 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
575 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
576 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
577 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
579 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
580 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
581 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
582 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
583 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
584 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
586 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
587 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
589 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
590 =========================
595 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
598 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
600 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
601 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
602 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
604 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
605 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
607 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
608 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
609 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
611 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
613 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
614 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
615 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
616 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
617 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
618 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
623 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
624 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
627 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
630 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
632 Command Line Interface
633 ----------------------
635 Database revision tracking
637 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
638 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
639 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
640 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
642 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
644 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
645 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
646 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
647 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
648 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
649 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
650 manual page for further information.
655 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
657 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
658 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
660 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
662 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
663 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
664 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
666 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
668 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
670 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
671 customization as well.
673 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
675 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
677 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
679 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
681 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
682 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
683 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
684 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
686 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
688 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
689 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
690 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
691 this variable to 10000.
696 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
697 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
699 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
701 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
702 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
703 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
704 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
705 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
706 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
707 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
708 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
709 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
712 Database revision tracking
714 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
715 query parser and the new function
716 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
718 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
722 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
723 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
724 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
725 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
730 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
732 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
733 ===========================
738 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
740 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
741 ===========================
746 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
748 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
749 =========================
751 Command-Line Interface
752 ----------------------
754 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
756 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
757 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
758 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
760 Path to gpg is now configurable
762 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
763 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
768 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
770 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
775 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
780 Support messages without Message-IDs.
785 Undeprecate single message mboxes
787 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
788 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
790 New error logging facility
792 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
793 output formerly printed to stderr.
795 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
797 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
799 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
801 Fix for rounding of seconds
806 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
808 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
809 docmumentation has been removed.
811 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
813 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
814 some material from the relicensed wiki.
819 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
820 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
821 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
826 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
827 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
828 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
829 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
830 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
831 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
834 git checkout config origin/config
836 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
838 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
839 =========================
844 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
845 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
846 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
847 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
848 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
849 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
850 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
852 Command-Line Interface
853 ----------------------
855 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
857 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
858 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
859 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
860 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
861 script callers should still check the return value.
863 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
865 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
866 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
867 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
868 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
869 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
870 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
871 and returning success even if indexing fails).
873 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
875 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
876 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
877 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
879 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
881 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
882 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
883 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
884 currently unmaintained.
886 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
888 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
889 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
890 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
891 have at least `N` files associated with them.
893 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
895 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
896 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
897 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
898 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
899 count of duplicate addresses.
904 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
906 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
907 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
908 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
911 Improved handling of the unread tag
913 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
914 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
915 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
916 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
917 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
918 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
919 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
921 Expanded default saved search settings
923 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
924 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
926 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
928 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
929 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
930 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
932 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
934 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
935 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
936 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
937 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
938 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
939 the variable for details.
944 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
946 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
947 Representing these independently of the database version number will
948 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
949 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
951 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
953 Previously, library users were required to call
954 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
955 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
956 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
957 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
958 too out of date for that API.
960 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
962 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
963 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
964 atomic section will be aborted.
966 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
967 `notmuch_database_destroy`
969 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
971 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
972 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
973 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
974 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
975 messages into the same thread.
980 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
981 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
982 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
983 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
984 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
985 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
990 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
991 from the config file. Use something like:
995 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
996 "footer": "</body></html>",
1005 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1010 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1011 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1012 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1014 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1015 ===========================
1020 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1022 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1024 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1026 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1027 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1029 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1031 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1034 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1035 ===========================
1037 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1042 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1044 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1046 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1048 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1050 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1056 Use --quick when starting emacs
1058 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1060 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1062 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1064 Command-Line Interface
1065 ----------------------
1067 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1068 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1073 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1075 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1076 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1078 Fix for phrase indexing
1080 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1081 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1082 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1087 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1089 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1090 unintentionally removed.
1092 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1093 =========================
1098 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1099 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1100 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1101 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1102 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1103 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1104 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1105 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1106 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1112 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1114 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1115 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1116 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1117 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1118 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1119 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1120 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1121 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1123 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1125 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1126 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1127 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1128 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1131 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1133 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1134 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1135 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1136 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1137 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1138 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1139 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1144 Notmuch database upgrade
1146 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1147 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1148 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1149 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1150 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1151 released version of Notmuch before now.
1153 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1155 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1156 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1157 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1158 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1160 Message header parsing changes
1162 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1163 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1164 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1165 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1166 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1167 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1169 Command-Line Interface
1170 ----------------------
1172 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1174 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1176 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1178 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1180 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1182 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1183 user does not want it.
1185 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1187 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1188 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1189 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1190 support formatted output.
1192 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1194 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1195 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1196 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1204 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1205 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1206 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1207 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1208 `~/.emacs` with these.
1210 Changed format for saved searches
1212 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1213 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1214 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1215 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1218 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1219 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1220 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1221 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1223 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1224 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1225 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1227 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1228 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1229 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1230 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1231 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1233 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1235 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1236 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1237 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1239 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1241 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1242 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1243 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1244 message had been unread).
1246 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1247 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1248 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1249 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1251 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1252 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1253 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1255 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1256 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1257 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1258 to tags already present.
1262 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1263 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1264 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1265 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1266 these differ from each other.
1267 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1269 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1271 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1272 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1273 for these Emacs versions.
1275 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1277 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1278 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1280 Bug fixes for sender identities
1282 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1283 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1284 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1286 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1288 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1289 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1290 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1291 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1293 Reply pushes mark before signature
1295 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1296 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1297 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1299 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1301 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1302 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1308 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1309 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1311 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1312 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1313 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1314 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1316 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1317 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1318 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1319 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1320 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1322 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1324 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1325 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1327 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1328 =========================
1330 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1331 ---------------------------------------
1333 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1334 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1335 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1336 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1337 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1338 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1339 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1343 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1344 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1346 Command-Line Interface
1347 ----------------------
1349 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1351 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1352 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1353 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1354 print for each message.
1356 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1357 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1358 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1359 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1361 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1363 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1364 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1365 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1367 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1369 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1370 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1371 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1372 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1374 `notmuch compact` command
1376 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1377 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1378 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1379 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1380 move the compacted database into place.
1385 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1387 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1388 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1389 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1390 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1391 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1392 and multiple threads.
1394 Using `notmuch-tree`
1396 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1398 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1399 search, show and tree mode itself)
1401 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1404 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1405 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1407 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1409 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1410 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1411 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1412 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1413 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1414 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1415 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1417 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1419 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1420 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1421 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1422 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1423 thread when the search was performed.
1425 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1427 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1428 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1429 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1431 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1433 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1434 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1437 Built-in help improvements
1439 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1440 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1441 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1443 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1445 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1446 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1447 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1449 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1451 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1452 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1454 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1456 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1457 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1458 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1459 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1461 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1463 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1464 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1465 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1466 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1468 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1470 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1471 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1472 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1474 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1476 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1477 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1478 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1480 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1482 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1483 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1484 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1485 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1486 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1488 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1490 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1491 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1492 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1493 the body part of the message.
1498 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1499 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1500 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1502 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1503 =========================
1505 Command-Line Interface
1506 ----------------------
1508 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1510 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1511 folder and notmuch index.
1513 `notmuch count --batch` option
1515 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1516 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1518 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1520 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1521 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1522 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1525 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1527 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1528 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1529 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1530 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1531 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1534 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1536 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1537 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1539 Top level option to specify configuration file
1541 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1542 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1544 Bash command-line completion
1546 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1547 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1548 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1549 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1550 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1551 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1552 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1553 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1554 bash-completion package.
1556 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1561 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1563 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1564 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1565 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1566 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1567 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1568 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1569 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1570 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1572 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1574 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1575 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1576 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1578 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1580 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1581 previous thread in the search results.
1583 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1585 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1586 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1588 Faster search and show
1590 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1591 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1592 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1593 threads should show faster.
1597 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1598 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1599 in question was now removed from this release.
1604 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1605 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1610 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1612 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1613 ===========================
1618 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1620 Internal test framework changes
1621 -------------------------------
1623 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1624 being unimplemented.
1626 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1627 ===========================
1629 Internal test framework changes
1630 -------------------------------
1632 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1633 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1635 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1636 =========================
1641 Date range search support
1643 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1644 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1645 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1646 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1647 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1650 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1652 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1653 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1654 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1655 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1656 but may be removed in a future release.
1658 Command-Line Interface
1659 ----------------------
1661 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1663 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1664 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1666 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1668 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1669 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1670 officially deprecated.
1672 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1674 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1675 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1676 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1678 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1680 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1681 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1684 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1685 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1686 dump/restore format.
1688 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1690 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1691 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1692 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1694 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1696 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1697 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1698 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1700 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1702 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1703 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1704 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1705 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1710 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1712 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1713 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1714 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1715 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1717 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1719 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1720 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1721 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1722 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1723 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1724 the behavior of this, see
1725 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1726 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1728 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1729 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1730 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1732 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1734 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1735 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1738 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1740 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1741 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1742 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1743 simply displayed in place of the message.
1745 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1747 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1748 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1750 Improved text/calendar content handling
1752 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1753 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1754 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1755 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1757 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1759 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1760 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1761 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1762 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1764 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1766 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1767 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1768 for HTML email containing images.
1770 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1772 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1774 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1776 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1779 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1781 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1782 the point where it was.
1784 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1786 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1787 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1788 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1789 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1790 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1792 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1794 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1795 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1796 thread instead of the message id.
1798 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1799 -----------------------------
1801 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1802 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1803 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1804 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1805 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1806 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1807 further details and installation.
1812 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1814 Internal test framework changes
1815 -------------------------------
1817 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1819 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1820 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1821 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1822 can result in buggy behavior.
1824 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1825 =========================
1830 Maildir tag synchronization
1832 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1833 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1834 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1835 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1836 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1837 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1840 Command-Line Interface
1841 ----------------------
1843 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1844 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1845 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1846 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1847 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1853 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1855 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1857 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1858 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1859 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1861 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1863 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1864 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1865 span multiple lines.
1867 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1869 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1870 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1871 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1872 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1873 inside the result or message.
1875 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1877 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1878 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1880 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1881 user-specified formatting
1883 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1884 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1885 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1886 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1887 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1889 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1890 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1892 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1893 ===========================
1898 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1899 compilation error for this contrib package.
1901 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1902 ===========================
1907 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1909 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1910 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1911 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1912 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1914 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1915 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1918 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1919 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1920 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1921 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1924 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1926 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1929 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1930 =========================
1932 Command-Line Interface
1933 ----------------------
1937 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1938 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1939 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1940 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1942 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1943 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1944 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1945 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1949 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1950 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1952 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1953 tag in your query, for example:
1955 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1957 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1958 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1960 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1961 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1963 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1965 Raw show format changes
1967 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1968 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1969 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1970 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1971 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1972 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1973 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1974 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1976 Listing configuration items
1978 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1984 Changes to tagging interface
1986 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1987 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1988 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1989 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1990 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1991 for more information.
1993 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1994 may need to update in custom configurations.
1996 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1998 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1999 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2000 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2001 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2004 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2005 -----------------------------
2007 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2008 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2009 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2010 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2011 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2012 contrib/ from now on.
2017 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2018 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2020 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2021 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2023 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2024 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2025 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2027 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2028 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2030 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2031 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2032 returning the new database object or directory object.
2039 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2040 compatible with go 1.
2042 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2043 =========================
2045 Command-Line Interface
2046 ----------------------
2050 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2051 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2052 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2053 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2055 Mail store folder/file ignore
2057 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2058 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2059 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2061 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2062 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2064 Unified help and manual pages
2066 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2067 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2070 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2072 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2073 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2081 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2082 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2083 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2084 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2086 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2088 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2089 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2091 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2094 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2095 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2096 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2098 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2100 should be changed to:
2102 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2104 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2106 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2107 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2109 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2111 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2112 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2113 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2114 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2115 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2116 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2120 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2121 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2122 of Mailing List Archives.
2124 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2126 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2127 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2130 Show view archiving key binding changes
2132 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2133 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2134 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2135 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2136 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2139 Support text/calendar MIME type
2141 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2144 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2146 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2147 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2148 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2149 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2151 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2153 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2154 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2155 messages blue by default in the search view.
2159 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2160 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2167 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2170 Python bindings changes
2171 -----------------------
2173 Python 3.2 compatibility
2175 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2177 Added missing unicode conversions
2179 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2180 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2181 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2186 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2188 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2189 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2190 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2191 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2192 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2194 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2195 ===========================
2200 Fix error handling in python bindings
2202 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2203 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2204 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2205 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2207 Quote MML tags in replies
2209 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2210 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2211 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2212 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2213 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2214 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2215 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2216 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2218 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2219 =========================
2221 Command-Line Interface
2222 ----------------------
2226 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2227 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2228 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2229 importing new messages into the database.
2231 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2233 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2234 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2235 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2240 Automatic tag query optimization
2242 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2243 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2244 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2246 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2248 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2249 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2250 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2255 Reduction of memory leaks
2257 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2258 and fixed in this release.
2265 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2266 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2267 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2270 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2272 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2273 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2274 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2277 Improvements in saved search management
2279 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2280 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2281 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2283 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2285 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2286 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2287 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2289 New face for crypto parts headers
2291 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2292 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2293 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2296 Use space as default thousands separator
2298 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2299 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2300 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2302 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2303 buttonized id: links
2305 New function notmuch-show-advance
2307 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2308 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2309 be bound to SPC with:
2311 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2313 Various performance improvements
2318 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2319 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2322 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2323 ===========================
2328 Fix crash in python bindings
2330 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2331 for some, but not all users.
2333 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2334 ===========================
2339 Fix `--help` argument
2341 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2342 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2343 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2345 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2346 =========================
2348 New build and testing features
2349 ------------------------------
2351 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2352 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2353 prerequisites is improved.
2355 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2357 New command-line features
2358 -------------------------
2360 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2362 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2363 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2366 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2368 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2369 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2370 favour of using stdout.
2372 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2374 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2375 limit the number of results shown.
2377 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2379 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2380 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2383 New emacs UI features
2384 ---------------------
2386 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2388 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2389 starting with "tag:".
2391 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2393 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2394 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2396 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2398 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2400 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2402 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2403 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2408 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2410 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2412 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2413 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2414 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2415 requires a database rebuild:
2417 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2418 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2420 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2422 New collection of add-on tools
2423 ------------------------------
2425 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2426 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2427 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2430 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2432 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2433 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2434 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2436 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2437 ========================
2439 New, general features
2440 ---------------------
2442 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2444 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2445 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2446 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2447 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2448 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2455 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2456 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2458 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2462 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2463 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2464 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2467 Python bindings changes
2468 -----------------------
2470 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2472 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2473 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2474 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2475 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2476 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2477 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2479 Ruby bindings changes
2480 ---------------------
2482 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2483 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2484 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2485 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2490 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2492 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2493 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2495 Reply formatting cleanup
2496 ------------------------
2498 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2499 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2501 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2502 ========================
2504 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2506 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2507 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2508 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2509 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2512 Improved Build system portability
2514 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2515 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2516 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2518 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2520 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2522 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2524 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2525 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2526 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2528 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2529 ========================
2531 Vim interface improvements
2532 --------------------------
2534 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2536 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2537 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2538 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2539 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2540 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2542 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2544 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2545 * fix compose temp file name
2547 Python Bindings changes
2548 -----------------------
2550 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2552 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2553 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2555 Build-System improvements
2556 -------------------------
2558 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2560 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2563 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2564 ==========================
2569 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2571 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2572 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2574 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2575 =======================
2577 New, general features
2578 ---------------------
2580 Folder-based searching
2582 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2583 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2584 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2588 For example, one might use things such as:
2594 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2595 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2597 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2598 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2599 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2600 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2602 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2603 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2604 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2607 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2608 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2610 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2612 Support for PGP/MIME
2614 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2615 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2616 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2618 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2620 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2621 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2623 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2624 notmuch will receive these tags.
2626 New command-line features
2627 -------------------------
2629 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2631 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2632 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2634 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2636 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2637 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2638 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2640 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2642 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2643 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2644 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2645 which parts a signature part applies).
2647 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2649 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2650 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2651 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2652 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2653 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2656 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2658 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2659 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2660 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2661 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2662 by translating it internally to the new call.
2664 Performance improvements
2665 ------------------------
2667 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2669 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2670 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2671 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2673 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2674 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2676 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2678 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2679 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2680 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2682 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2683 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2684 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2685 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2687 Faster initial indexing
2689 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2690 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2691 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2693 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2695 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2696 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2697 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2698 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2700 New emacs-interface features
2701 ----------------------------
2703 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2705 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2706 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2707 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2708 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2709 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2710 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2712 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2714 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2715 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2716 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2717 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2719 User-selectable From address
2721 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2722 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2723 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2724 will prompt for the from address to use.
2726 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2727 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2728 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2730 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2731 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2732 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2735 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2737 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2738 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2740 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2742 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2744 ----- Original Message -----
2746 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2747 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2748 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2749 citations work much like conventional citations.
2751 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2753 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2754 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2755 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2756 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2757 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2759 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2760 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2762 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2764 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2765 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2766 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2768 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2770 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2771 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2772 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2773 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2774 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2776 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2778 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2781 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2783 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2785 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2787 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2790 Vim interface improvements
2791 --------------------------
2793 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2795 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2796 * Implementing archive in show view
2797 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2798 * Add delete commands
2801 Bindings improvements
2802 ---------------------
2804 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2806 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2807 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2809 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2811 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2815 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2816 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2817 `list(Messages)` works now
2818 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2820 These allow, for example:
2822 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2824 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2826 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2832 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2834 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2837 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2839 New build-system features
2840 -------------------------
2842 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2844 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2845 the configure script from some other directory:
2852 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2854 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2855 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2856 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2857 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2858 manual invocation of configure.
2860 New test-suite feature
2861 ----------------------
2863 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2865 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2866 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2867 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2868 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2869 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2872 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2874 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2875 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2876 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2877 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2878 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2879 are updated to take advantage of this.
2881 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2883 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2884 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2885 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2886 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2892 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2894 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2895 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2896 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2898 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2900 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2902 to:user@elsewhere.com
2904 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2906 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2908 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2910 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2911 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2912 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2915 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2916 from the Received headers in some cases
2918 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2919 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2921 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2923 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2925 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2927 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2928 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2929 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2931 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2932 -------------------------
2934 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2936 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2937 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2938 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2940 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2942 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2943 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2944 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2947 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2949 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2950 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2951 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2952 fixed to avoid this bug.
2954 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2956 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2957 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2959 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2960 ========================
2962 New, general features
2963 ---------------------
2965 Maildir-flag synchronization
2967 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2968 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2977 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2979 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2980 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2981 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2982 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2984 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2985 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2986 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2987 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2990 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2992 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2993 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2994 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2996 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2997 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2999 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3000 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3002 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3003 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3004 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3006 New library features
3007 --------------------
3009 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3011 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3012 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3013 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3014 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3016 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3017 message with the new function:
3019 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3021 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3022 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3023 over all available filenames for a given message.
3025 New command-line features
3026 -------------------------
3028 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3030 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3031 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3032 access to the mail store itself.
3034 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3035 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3036 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3037 name of a script containing:
3039 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3041 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3042 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3048 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3050 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3052 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3054 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3055 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3056 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3057 now produces nothing).
3059 Emacs interface improvements
3060 ----------------------------
3062 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3064 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3066 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3068 Display current thread subject in a header line
3070 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3072 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3074 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3075 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3076 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3077 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3078 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3079 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3080 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3082 Vim interface improvements
3083 --------------------------
3085 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3087 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3088 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3094 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3096 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3097 ========================
3099 New command-line features
3100 -------------------------
3102 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3104 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3105 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3106 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3108 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3109 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3110 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3111 scripts. For example:
3113 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3114 <operations-on> "$file"
3117 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3119 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3120 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3121 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3122 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3123 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3124 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3126 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3128 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3129 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3130 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3131 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3133 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3135 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3136 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3137 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3138 default rather than Bcc.
3140 New library features
3141 --------------------
3143 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3145 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3146 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3151 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3153 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3154 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3155 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3156 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3157 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3158 notmuch customize interface.
3160 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3162 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3163 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3164 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3165 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3167 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3169 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3170 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3171 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3172 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3174 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3176 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3177 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3178 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3179 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3180 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3181 notmuch customize interface.
3183 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3185 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3186 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3187 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3188 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3189 notmuch customize interface.
3191 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3193 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3194 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3195 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3196 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3199 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3201 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3202 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3203 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3206 New build-system features
3207 -------------------------
3209 Various portability fixes have been applied
3211 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3212 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3213 more portable than ever before.
3215 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3217 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3218 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3219 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3221 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3222 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3223 automatically run ldconfig.
3225 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3226 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3227 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3229 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3230 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3231 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3232 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3234 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3236 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3237 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3238 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3239 used in the resulting Makefile.
3241 New test-suite features
3242 -----------------------
3244 New modularization of test suite
3246 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3247 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3248 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3249 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3250 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3251 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3252 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3253 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3255 New testing of emacs interface
3257 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3258 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3259 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3260 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3261 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3262 database via the FCC setting.
3267 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3269 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3270 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3271 persistent error of the form:
3273 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3275 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3276 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3278 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3280 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3281 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3282 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3284 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3286 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3287 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3288 parsing the notmuch results).
3290 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3292 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3295 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3296 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3297 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3302 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3304 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3305 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3306 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3307 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3308 the emacs interface.
3310 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3312 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3313 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3314 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3316 Python-binding fixes
3317 --------------------
3319 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3321 Debian-specific fixes
3322 ---------------------
3324 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3326 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3327 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3328 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3331 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3332 ==========================
3337 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3339 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3340 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3341 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3342 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3344 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3346 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3347 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3348 want notmuch to crash.
3353 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3355 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3356 directory does not exist
3361 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3363 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3364 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3366 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3367 ========================
3369 New command-line features
3370 -------------------------
3372 User-configurable tags for new messages
3374 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3375 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3376 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3377 to specify this value.
3379 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3381 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3382 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3383 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3385 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3387 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3388 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3390 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3392 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3393 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3394 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3395 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3396 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3399 Indication of author names that match a search
3401 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3402 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3403 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3404 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3405 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3406 messages in the thread are listed first.
3408 New: Python bindings
3409 --------------------
3411 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3412 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3413 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3414 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3416 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3417 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3418 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3421 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3422 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3423 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3425 Emacs interface improvements
3426 ----------------------------
3428 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3430 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3431 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3432 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3433 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3434 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3435 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3436 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3437 but without any of the disadvantages).
3439 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3440 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3441 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3444 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3445 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3446 instead running something like:
3448 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3450 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3451 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3452 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3455 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3457 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3458 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3459 tweaked by the user.
3461 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3462 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3463 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3466 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3467 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3468 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3471 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3473 This support currently relies on an external program,
3474 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3475 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3476 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3477 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3478 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3481 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3482 notmuch) is available via:
3484 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3486 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3487 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3488 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3490 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3492 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3493 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3494 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3495 making this automatic in a future release.
3497 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3499 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3500 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3501 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3502 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3503 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3504 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3507 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3509 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3510 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3511 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3513 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3515 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3516 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3517 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3519 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3520 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3521 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3522 other representation.
3524 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3525 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3528 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3530 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3531 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3532 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3534 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3535 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3536 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3538 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3540 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3541 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3542 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3543 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3544 to display the search result.
3546 More flexible handling of header visibility
3548 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3549 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3550 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3551 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3552 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3553 with the 'h' keybinding.
3555 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3556 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3557 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3559 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3561 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3563 Customizable formatting of search results
3565 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3566 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3567 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3569 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3571 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3573 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3578 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3580 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3581 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3582 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3583 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3589 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3591 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3592 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3594 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3596 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3597 accept are now all accepted.
3602 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3604 Better display of output from failed tests
3606 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3607 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3609 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3610 ========================
3612 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3613 detailed release notes this time!
3615 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3616 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3618 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3619 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3620 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3621 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3628 Better guessing of From: header
3630 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3631 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3632 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3633 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3634 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3637 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3639 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3640 guaranteed to match all messages.
3642 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3644 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3645 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3646 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3647 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3648 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3651 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3654 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3655 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3656 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3657 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3662 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3664 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3665 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3666 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3667 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3669 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3671 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3673 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3674 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3675 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3677 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3679 Previously, the user might see:
3681 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3685 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3687 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3688 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3689 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3690 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3692 Emacs client features
3693 ---------------------
3695 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3697 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3698 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3699 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3700 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3701 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3703 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3706 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3707 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3708 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3709 search with the '*' binding.
3711 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3713 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3714 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3717 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3719 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3720 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3721 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3723 Build-system features
3724 ---------------------
3726 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3728 Add support to configure for many standard options
3730 We include actual support for:
3732 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3734 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3736 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3737 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3739 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3740 separate "make install-emacs"
3742 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3744 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3745 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3746 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3748 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3751 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3752 ========================
3754 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3756 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3757 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3759 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3760 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3761 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3762 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3763 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3764 tags from messages in a thread.
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