1 Notmuch 0.23.3 (UNRELEASED)
6 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
8 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
9 ===========================
14 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
16 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
17 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
18 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
20 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
22 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
24 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
25 ===========================
30 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
32 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
37 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
39 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
40 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
43 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
44 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
46 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
48 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
49 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
50 bug, and hence the test.
52 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
53 =========================
58 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
60 Support for single argument date: queries
62 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
64 Support for blocking opens
66 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
67 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
69 Support for named queries
71 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
72 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
73 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
80 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
81 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
82 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
83 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
85 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
87 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
92 Support for compile time options
94 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
95 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
98 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
100 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
101 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
102 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
103 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
104 scripts to ignore it.
109 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
111 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
112 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
113 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
115 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
116 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
117 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
118 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
119 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
120 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
121 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
123 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
124 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
127 Make internal address completion customizable
129 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
130 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
131 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
132 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
135 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
137 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
138 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
139 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
140 completion for the current buffer.
142 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
143 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
144 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
148 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
149 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
150 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
151 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
152 will be added instead.
154 Face customization is easier
156 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
157 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
158 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
159 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
161 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
166 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
171 Go bindings moved to contrib
173 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
175 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
177 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
178 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
180 The same issue occured with sort modes.
182 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
183 ===========================
190 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
191 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
193 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
195 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
197 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
198 ===========================
203 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
205 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
210 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
215 Use `env` to locate perl.
220 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
222 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
224 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
226 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
228 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
229 =========================
236 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
237 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
239 Limited support for S/MIME messages
241 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
242 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
243 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
248 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
249 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
250 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
252 Command Line Interface
253 ----------------------
255 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
257 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
262 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
267 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
269 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
270 parts are now included in replies.
272 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
273 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
274 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
275 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
277 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
279 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
281 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
283 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
284 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
285 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
286 forwards only the current message.
288 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
290 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
291 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
292 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
293 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
294 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
295 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
296 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
297 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
300 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
301 longer generate empty buffers
303 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
304 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
305 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
306 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
307 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
309 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
311 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
314 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
316 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
319 Address completion improvements
321 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
322 you previously configured one, customize the variable
323 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
324 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
325 interactive address completion.
327 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
329 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
330 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
331 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
336 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
337 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
338 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
344 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
345 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
346 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
347 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
348 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
349 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
351 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
352 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
353 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
354 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
355 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
356 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
358 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
359 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
361 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
362 =========================
367 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
370 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
372 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
373 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
374 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
376 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
377 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
379 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
380 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
381 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
383 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
385 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
386 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
387 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
388 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
389 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
390 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
395 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
396 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
399 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
402 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
404 Command Line Interface
405 ----------------------
407 Database revision tracking
409 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
410 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
411 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
412 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
414 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
416 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
417 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
418 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
419 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
420 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
421 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
422 manual page for further information.
427 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
429 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
430 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
432 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
434 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
435 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
436 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
438 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
440 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
442 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
443 customization as well.
445 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
447 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
449 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
451 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
453 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
454 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
455 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
456 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
458 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
460 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
461 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
462 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
463 this variable to 10000.
468 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
469 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
471 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
473 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
474 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
475 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
476 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
477 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
478 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
479 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
480 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
481 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
484 Database revision tracking
486 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
487 query parser and the new function
488 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
490 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
494 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
495 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
496 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
497 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
502 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
504 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
505 ===========================
510 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
512 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
513 ===========================
518 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
520 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
521 =========================
523 Command-Line Interface
524 ----------------------
526 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
528 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
529 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
530 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
532 Path to gpg is now configurable
534 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
535 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
540 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
542 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
547 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
552 Support messages without Message-IDs.
557 Undeprecate single message mboxes
559 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
560 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
562 New error logging facility
564 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
565 output formerly printed to stderr.
567 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
569 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
571 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
573 Fix for rounding of seconds
578 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
580 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
581 docmumentation has been removed.
583 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
585 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
586 some material from the relicensed wiki.
591 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
592 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
593 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
598 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
599 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
600 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
601 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
602 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
603 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
606 git checkout config origin/config
608 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
610 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
611 =========================
616 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
617 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
618 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
619 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
620 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
621 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
622 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
624 Command-Line Interface
625 ----------------------
627 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
629 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
630 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
631 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
632 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
633 script callers should still check the return value.
635 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
637 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
638 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
639 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
640 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
641 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
642 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
643 and returning success even if indexing fails).
645 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
647 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
648 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
649 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
651 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
653 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
654 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
655 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
656 currently unmaintained.
658 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
660 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
661 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
662 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
663 have at least `N` files associated with them.
665 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
667 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
668 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
669 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
670 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
671 count of duplicate addresses.
676 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
678 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
679 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
680 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
683 Improved handling of the unread tag
685 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
686 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
687 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
688 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
689 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
690 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
691 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
693 Expanded default saved search settings
695 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
696 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
698 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
700 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
701 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
702 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
704 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
706 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
707 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
708 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
709 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
710 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
711 the variable for details.
716 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
718 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
719 Representing these independently of the database version number will
720 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
721 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
723 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
725 Previously, library users were required to call
726 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
727 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
728 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
729 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
730 too out of date for that API.
732 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
734 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
735 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
736 atomic section will be aborted.
738 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
739 `notmuch_database_destroy`
741 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
743 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
744 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
745 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
746 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
747 messages into the same thread.
752 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
753 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
754 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
755 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
756 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
757 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
762 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
763 from the config file. Use something like:
767 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
768 "footer": "</body></html>",
777 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
782 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
783 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
784 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
786 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
787 ===========================
792 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
794 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
796 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
798 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
799 structure for signatures changed slightly.
801 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
803 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
806 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
807 ===========================
809 This is a bug fix and portability release.
814 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
816 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
818 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
820 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
822 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
828 Use --quick when starting emacs
830 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
832 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
834 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
836 Command-Line Interface
837 ----------------------
839 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
840 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
845 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
847 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
848 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
850 Fix for phrase indexing
852 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
853 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
854 will affect only newly indexed messages.
859 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
861 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
862 unintentionally removed.
864 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
865 =========================
870 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
871 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
872 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
873 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
874 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
875 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
876 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
877 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
878 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
884 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
886 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
887 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
888 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
889 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
890 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
891 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
892 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
893 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
895 There is a new `path:` search prefix
897 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
898 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
899 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
900 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
903 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
905 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
906 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
907 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
908 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
909 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
910 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
911 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
916 Notmuch database upgrade
918 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
919 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
920 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
921 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
922 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
923 released version of Notmuch before now.
925 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
927 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
928 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
929 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
930 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
932 Message header parsing changes
934 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
935 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
936 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
937 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
938 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
939 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
941 Command-Line Interface
942 ----------------------
944 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
946 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
948 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
950 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
952 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
954 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
955 user does not want it.
957 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
959 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
960 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
961 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
962 support formatted output.
964 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
966 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
967 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
968 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
976 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
977 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
978 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
979 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
980 `~/.emacs` with these.
982 Changed format for saved searches
984 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
985 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
986 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
987 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
990 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
991 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
992 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
993 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
995 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
996 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
997 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
999 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1000 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1001 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1002 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1003 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1005 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1007 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1008 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1009 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1011 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1013 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1014 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1015 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1016 message had been unread).
1018 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1019 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1020 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1021 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1023 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1024 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1025 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1027 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1028 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1029 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1030 to tags already present.
1034 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1035 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1036 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1037 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1038 these differ from each other.
1039 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1041 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1043 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1044 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1045 for these Emacs versions.
1047 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1049 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1050 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1052 Bug fixes for sender identities
1054 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1055 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1056 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1058 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1060 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1061 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1062 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1063 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1065 Reply pushes mark before signature
1067 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1068 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1069 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1071 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1073 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1074 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1080 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1081 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1083 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1084 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1085 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1086 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1088 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1089 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1090 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1091 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1092 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1094 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1096 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1097 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1099 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1100 =========================
1102 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1103 ---------------------------------------
1105 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1106 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1107 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1108 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1109 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1110 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1111 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1115 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1116 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1118 Command-Line Interface
1119 ----------------------
1121 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1123 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1124 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1125 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1126 print for each message.
1128 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1129 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1130 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1131 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1133 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1135 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1136 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1137 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1139 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1141 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1142 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1143 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1144 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1146 `notmuch compact` command
1148 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1149 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1150 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1151 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1152 move the compacted database into place.
1157 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1159 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1160 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1161 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1162 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1163 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1164 and multiple threads.
1166 Using `notmuch-tree`
1168 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1170 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1171 search, show and tree mode itself)
1173 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1176 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1177 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1179 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1181 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1182 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1183 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1184 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1185 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1186 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1187 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1189 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1191 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1192 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1193 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1194 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1195 thread when the search was performed.
1197 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1199 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1200 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1201 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1203 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1205 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1206 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1209 Built-in help improvements
1211 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1212 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1213 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1215 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1217 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1218 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1219 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1221 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1223 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1224 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1226 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1228 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1229 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1230 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1231 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1233 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1235 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1236 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1237 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1238 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1240 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1242 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1243 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1244 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1246 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1248 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1249 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1250 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1252 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1254 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1255 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1256 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1257 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1258 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1260 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1262 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1263 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1264 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1265 the body part of the message.
1270 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1271 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1272 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1274 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1275 =========================
1277 Command-Line Interface
1278 ----------------------
1280 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1282 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1283 folder and notmuch index.
1285 `notmuch count --batch` option
1287 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1288 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1290 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1292 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1293 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1294 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1297 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1299 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1300 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1301 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1302 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1303 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1306 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1308 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1309 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1311 Top level option to specify configuration file
1313 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1314 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1316 Bash command-line completion
1318 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1319 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1320 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1321 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1322 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1323 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1324 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1325 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1326 bash-completion package.
1328 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1333 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1335 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1336 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1337 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1338 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1339 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1340 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1341 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1342 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1344 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1346 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1347 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1348 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1350 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1352 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1353 previous thread in the search results.
1355 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1357 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1358 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1360 Faster search and show
1362 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1363 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1364 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1365 threads should show faster.
1369 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1370 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1371 in question was now removed from this release.
1376 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1377 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1382 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1384 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1385 ===========================
1390 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1392 Internal test framework changes
1393 -------------------------------
1395 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1396 being unimplemented.
1398 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1399 ===========================
1401 Internal test framework changes
1402 -------------------------------
1404 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1405 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1407 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1408 =========================
1413 Date range search support
1415 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1416 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1417 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1418 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1419 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1422 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1424 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1425 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1426 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1427 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1428 but may be removed in a future release.
1430 Command-Line Interface
1431 ----------------------
1433 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1435 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1436 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1438 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1440 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1441 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1442 officially deprecated.
1444 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1446 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1447 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1448 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1450 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1452 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1453 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1456 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1457 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1458 dump/restore format.
1460 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1462 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1463 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1464 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1466 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1468 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1469 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1470 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1472 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1474 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1475 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1476 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1477 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1482 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1484 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1485 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1486 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1487 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1489 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1491 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1492 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1493 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1494 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1495 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1496 the behavior of this, see
1497 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1498 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1500 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1501 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1502 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1504 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1506 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1507 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1510 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1512 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1513 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1514 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1515 simply displayed in place of the message.
1517 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1519 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1520 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1522 Improved text/calendar content handling
1524 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1525 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1526 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1527 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1529 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1531 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1532 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1533 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1534 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1536 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1538 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1539 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1540 for HTML email containing images.
1542 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1544 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1546 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1548 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1551 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1553 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1554 the point where it was.
1556 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1558 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1559 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1560 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1561 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1562 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1564 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1566 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1567 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1568 thread instead of the message id.
1570 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1571 -----------------------------
1573 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1574 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1575 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1576 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1577 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1578 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1579 further details and installation.
1584 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1586 Internal test framework changes
1587 -------------------------------
1589 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1591 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1592 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1593 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1594 can result in buggy behavior.
1596 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1597 =========================
1602 Maildir tag synchronization
1604 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1605 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1606 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1607 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1608 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1609 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1612 Command-Line Interface
1613 ----------------------
1615 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1616 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1617 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1618 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1619 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1625 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1627 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1629 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1630 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1631 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1633 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1635 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1636 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1637 span multiple lines.
1639 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1641 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1642 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1643 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1644 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1645 inside the result or message.
1647 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1649 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1650 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1652 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1653 user-specified formatting
1655 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1656 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1657 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1658 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1659 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1661 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1662 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1664 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1665 ===========================
1670 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1671 compilation error for this contrib package.
1673 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1674 ===========================
1679 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1681 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1682 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1683 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1684 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1686 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1687 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1690 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1691 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1692 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1693 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1696 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1698 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1701 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1702 =========================
1704 Command-Line Interface
1705 ----------------------
1709 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1710 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1711 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1712 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1714 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1715 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1716 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1717 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1721 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1722 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1724 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1725 tag in your query, for example:
1727 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1729 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1730 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1732 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1733 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1735 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1737 Raw show format changes
1739 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1740 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1741 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1742 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1743 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1744 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1745 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1746 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1748 Listing configuration items
1750 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1756 Changes to tagging interface
1758 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1759 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1760 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1761 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1762 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1763 for more information.
1765 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1766 may need to update in custom configurations.
1768 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1770 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1771 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1772 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1773 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1776 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1777 -----------------------------
1779 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1780 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1781 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1782 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1783 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1784 contrib/ from now on.
1789 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1790 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1792 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1793 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1795 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1796 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1797 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1799 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1800 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1802 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1803 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1804 returning the new database object or directory object.
1811 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1812 compatible with go 1.
1814 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1815 =========================
1817 Command-Line Interface
1818 ----------------------
1822 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1823 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1824 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1825 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1827 Mail store folder/file ignore
1829 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1830 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1831 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1833 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1834 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1836 Unified help and manual pages
1838 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1839 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1842 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1844 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1845 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1853 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1854 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1855 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1856 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1858 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1860 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1861 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1863 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1866 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1867 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1868 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1870 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1872 should be changed to:
1874 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1876 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1878 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1879 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1881 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1883 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1884 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1885 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1886 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1887 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1888 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1892 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1893 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1894 of Mailing List Archives.
1896 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1898 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1899 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1902 Show view archiving key binding changes
1904 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1905 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1906 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1907 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1908 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1911 Support text/calendar MIME type
1913 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1916 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1918 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1919 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1920 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1921 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1923 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1925 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1926 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1927 messages blue by default in the search view.
1931 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1932 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1939 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1942 Python bindings changes
1943 -----------------------
1945 Python 3.2 compatibility
1947 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1949 Added missing unicode conversions
1951 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1952 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1953 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1958 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1960 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1961 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1962 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1963 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1964 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1966 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1967 ===========================
1972 Fix error handling in python bindings
1974 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1975 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1976 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1977 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1979 Quote MML tags in replies
1981 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1982 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1983 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1984 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1985 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1986 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1987 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1988 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1990 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1991 =========================
1993 Command-Line Interface
1994 ----------------------
1998 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1999 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2000 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2001 importing new messages into the database.
2003 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2005 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2006 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2007 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2012 Automatic tag query optimization
2014 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2015 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2016 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2018 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2020 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2021 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2022 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2027 Reduction of memory leaks
2029 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2030 and fixed in this release.
2037 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2038 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2039 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2042 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2044 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2045 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2046 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2049 Improvements in saved search management
2051 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2052 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2053 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2055 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2057 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2058 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2059 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2061 New face for crypto parts headers
2063 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2064 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2065 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2068 Use space as default thousands separator
2070 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2071 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2072 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2074 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2075 buttonized id: links
2077 New function notmuch-show-advance
2079 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2080 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2081 be bound to SPC with:
2083 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2085 Various performance improvements
2090 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2091 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2094 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2095 ===========================
2100 Fix crash in python bindings
2102 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2103 for some, but not all users.
2105 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2106 ===========================
2111 Fix `--help` argument
2113 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2114 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2115 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2117 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2118 =========================
2120 New build and testing features
2121 ------------------------------
2123 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2124 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2125 prerequisites is improved.
2127 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2129 New command-line features
2130 -------------------------
2132 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2134 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2135 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2138 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2140 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2141 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2142 favour of using stdout.
2144 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2146 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2147 limit the number of results shown.
2149 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2151 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2152 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2155 New emacs UI features
2156 ---------------------
2158 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2160 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2161 starting with "tag:".
2163 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2165 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2166 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2168 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2170 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2172 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2174 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2175 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2180 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2182 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2184 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2185 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2186 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2187 requires a database rebuild:
2189 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2190 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2192 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2194 New collection of add-on tools
2195 ------------------------------
2197 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2198 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2199 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2202 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2204 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2205 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2206 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2208 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2209 ========================
2211 New, general features
2212 ---------------------
2214 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2216 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2217 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2218 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2219 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2220 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2227 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2228 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2230 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2234 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2235 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2236 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2239 Python bindings changes
2240 -----------------------
2242 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2244 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2245 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2246 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2247 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2248 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2249 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2251 Ruby bindings changes
2252 ---------------------
2254 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2255 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2256 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2257 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2262 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2264 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2265 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2267 Reply formatting cleanup
2268 ------------------------
2270 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2271 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2273 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2274 ========================
2276 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2278 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2279 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2280 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2281 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2284 Improved Build system portability
2286 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2287 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2288 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2290 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2292 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2294 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2296 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2297 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2298 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2300 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2301 ========================
2303 Vim interface improvements
2304 --------------------------
2306 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2308 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2309 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2310 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2311 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2312 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2314 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2316 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2317 * fix compose temp file name
2319 Python Bindings changes
2320 -----------------------
2322 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2324 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2325 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2327 Build-System improvements
2328 -------------------------
2330 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2332 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2335 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2336 ==========================
2341 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2343 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2344 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2346 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2347 =======================
2349 New, general features
2350 ---------------------
2352 Folder-based searching
2354 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2355 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2356 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2360 For example, one might use things such as:
2366 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2367 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2369 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2370 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2371 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2372 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2374 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2375 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2376 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2379 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2380 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2382 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2384 Support for PGP/MIME
2386 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2387 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2388 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2390 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2392 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2393 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2395 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2396 notmuch will receive these tags.
2398 New command-line features
2399 -------------------------
2401 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2403 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2404 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2406 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2408 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2409 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2410 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2412 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2414 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2415 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2416 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2417 which parts a signature part applies).
2419 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2421 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2422 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2423 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2424 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2425 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2428 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2430 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2431 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2432 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2433 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2434 by translating it internally to the new call.
2436 Performance improvements
2437 ------------------------
2439 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2441 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2442 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2443 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2445 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2446 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2448 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2450 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2451 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2452 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2454 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2455 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2456 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2457 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2459 Faster initial indexing
2461 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2462 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2463 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2465 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2467 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2468 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2469 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2470 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2472 New emacs-interface features
2473 ----------------------------
2475 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2477 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2478 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2479 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2480 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2481 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2482 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2484 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2486 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2487 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2488 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2489 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2491 User-selectable From address
2493 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2494 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2495 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2496 will prompt for the from address to use.
2498 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2499 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2500 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2502 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2503 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2504 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2507 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2509 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2510 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2512 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2514 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2516 ----- Original Message -----
2518 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2519 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2520 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2521 citations work much like conventional citations.
2523 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2525 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2526 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2527 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2528 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2529 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2531 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2532 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2534 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2536 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2537 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2538 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2540 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2542 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2543 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2544 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2545 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2546 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2548 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2550 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2553 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2555 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2557 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2559 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2562 Vim interface improvements
2563 --------------------------
2565 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2567 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2568 * Implementing archive in show view
2569 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2570 * Add delete commands
2573 Bindings improvements
2574 ---------------------
2576 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2578 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2579 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2581 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2583 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2587 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2588 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2589 `list(Messages)` works now
2590 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2592 These allow, for example:
2594 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2596 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2598 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2604 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2606 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2609 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2611 New build-system features
2612 -------------------------
2614 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2616 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2617 the configure script from some other directory:
2624 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2626 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2627 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2628 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2629 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2630 manual invocation of configure.
2632 New test-suite feature
2633 ----------------------
2635 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2637 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2638 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2639 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2640 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2641 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2644 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2646 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2647 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2648 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2649 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2650 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2651 are updated to take advantage of this.
2653 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2655 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2656 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2657 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2658 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2664 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2666 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2667 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2668 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2670 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2672 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2674 to:user@elsewhere.com
2676 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2678 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2680 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2682 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2683 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2684 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2687 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2688 from the Received headers in some cases
2690 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2691 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2693 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2695 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2697 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2699 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2700 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2701 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2703 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2704 -------------------------
2706 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2708 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2709 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2710 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2712 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2714 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2715 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2716 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2719 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2721 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2722 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2723 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2724 fixed to avoid this bug.
2726 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2728 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2729 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2731 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2732 ========================
2734 New, general features
2735 ---------------------
2737 Maildir-flag synchronization
2739 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2740 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2749 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2751 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2752 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2753 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2754 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2756 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2757 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2758 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2759 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2762 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2764 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2765 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2766 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2768 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2769 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2771 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2772 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2774 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2775 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2776 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2778 New library features
2779 --------------------
2781 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2783 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2784 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2785 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2786 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2788 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2789 message with the new function:
2791 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2793 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2794 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2795 over all available filenames for a given message.
2797 New command-line features
2798 -------------------------
2800 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2802 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2803 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2804 access to the mail store itself.
2806 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2807 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2808 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2809 name of a script containing:
2811 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2813 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2814 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2820 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2822 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2824 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2826 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2827 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2828 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2829 now produces nothing).
2831 Emacs interface improvements
2832 ----------------------------
2834 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2836 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2838 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2840 Display current thread subject in a header line
2842 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2844 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2846 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2847 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2848 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2849 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2850 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2851 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2852 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2854 Vim interface improvements
2855 --------------------------
2857 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2859 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2860 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2866 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2868 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2869 ========================
2871 New command-line features
2872 -------------------------
2874 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2876 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2877 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2878 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2880 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2881 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2882 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2883 scripts. For example:
2885 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2886 <operations-on> "$file"
2889 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2891 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2892 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2893 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2894 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2895 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2896 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2898 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2900 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2901 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2902 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2903 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2905 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2907 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2908 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2909 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2910 default rather than Bcc.
2912 New library features
2913 --------------------
2915 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2917 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2918 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2923 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2925 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2926 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2927 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2928 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2929 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2930 notmuch customize interface.
2932 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2934 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2935 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2936 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2937 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2939 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2941 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2942 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2943 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2944 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2946 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2948 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2949 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2950 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2951 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2952 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2953 notmuch customize interface.
2955 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2957 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2958 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2959 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2960 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2961 notmuch customize interface.
2963 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2965 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2966 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2967 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2968 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2971 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2973 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2974 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2975 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2978 New build-system features
2979 -------------------------
2981 Various portability fixes have been applied
2983 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2984 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2985 more portable than ever before.
2987 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2989 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2990 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2991 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2993 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2994 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2995 automatically run ldconfig.
2997 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2998 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2999 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3001 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3002 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3003 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3004 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3006 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3008 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3009 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3010 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3011 used in the resulting Makefile.
3013 New test-suite features
3014 -----------------------
3016 New modularization of test suite
3018 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3019 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3020 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3021 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3022 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3023 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3024 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3025 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3027 New testing of emacs interface
3029 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3030 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3031 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3032 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3033 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3034 database via the FCC setting.
3039 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3041 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3042 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3043 persistent error of the form:
3045 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3047 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3048 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3050 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3052 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3053 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3054 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3056 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3058 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3059 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3060 parsing the notmuch results).
3062 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3064 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3067 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3068 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3069 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3074 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3076 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3077 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3078 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3079 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3080 the emacs interface.
3082 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3084 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3085 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3086 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3088 Python-binding fixes
3089 --------------------
3091 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3093 Debian-specific fixes
3094 ---------------------
3096 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3098 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3099 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3100 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3103 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3104 ==========================
3109 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3111 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3112 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3113 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3114 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3116 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3118 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3119 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3120 want notmuch to crash.
3125 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3127 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3128 directory does not exist
3133 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3135 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3136 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3138 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3139 ========================
3141 New command-line features
3142 -------------------------
3144 User-configurable tags for new messages
3146 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3147 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3148 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3149 to specify this value.
3151 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3153 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3154 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3155 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3157 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3159 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3160 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3162 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3164 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3165 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3166 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3167 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3168 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3171 Indication of author names that match a search
3173 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3174 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3175 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3176 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3177 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3178 messages in the thread are listed first.
3180 New: Python bindings
3181 --------------------
3183 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3184 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3185 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3186 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3188 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3189 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3190 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3193 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3194 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3195 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3197 Emacs interface improvements
3198 ----------------------------
3200 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3202 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3203 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3204 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3205 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3206 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3207 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3208 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3209 but without any of the disadvantages).
3211 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3212 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3213 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3216 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3217 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3218 instead running something like:
3220 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3222 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3223 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3224 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3227 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3229 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3230 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3231 tweaked by the user.
3233 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3234 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3235 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3238 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3239 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3240 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3243 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3245 This support currently relies on an external program,
3246 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3247 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3248 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3249 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3250 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3253 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3254 notmuch) is available via:
3256 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3258 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3259 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3260 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3262 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3264 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3265 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3266 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3267 making this automatic in a future release.
3269 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3271 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3272 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3273 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3274 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3275 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3276 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3279 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3281 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3282 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3283 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3285 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3287 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3288 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3289 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3291 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3292 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3293 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3294 other representation.
3296 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3297 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3300 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3302 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3303 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3304 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3306 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3307 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3308 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3310 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3312 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3313 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3314 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3315 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3316 to display the search result.
3318 More flexible handling of header visibility
3320 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3321 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3322 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3323 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3324 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3325 with the 'h' keybinding.
3327 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3328 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3329 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3331 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3333 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3335 Customizable formatting of search results
3337 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3338 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3339 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3341 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3343 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3345 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3350 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3352 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3353 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3354 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3355 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3361 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3363 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3364 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3366 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3368 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3369 accept are now all accepted.
3374 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3376 Better display of output from failed tests
3378 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3379 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3381 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3382 ========================
3384 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3385 detailed release notes this time!
3387 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3388 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3390 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3391 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3392 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3393 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3400 Better guessing of From: header
3402 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3403 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3404 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3405 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3406 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3409 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3411 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3412 guaranteed to match all messages.
3414 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3416 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3417 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3418 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3419 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3420 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3423 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3426 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3427 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3428 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3429 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3434 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3436 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3437 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3438 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3439 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3441 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3443 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3445 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3446 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3447 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3449 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3451 Previously, the user might see:
3453 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3457 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3459 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3460 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3461 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3462 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3464 Emacs client features
3465 ---------------------
3467 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3469 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3470 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3471 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3472 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3473 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3475 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3478 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3479 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3480 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3481 search with the '*' binding.
3483 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3485 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3486 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3489 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3491 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3492 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3493 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3495 Build-system features
3496 ---------------------
3498 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3500 Add support to configure for many standard options
3502 We include actual support for:
3504 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3506 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3508 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3509 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3511 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3512 separate "make install-emacs"
3514 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3516 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3517 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3518 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3520 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3523 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3524 ========================
3526 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3528 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3529 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3531 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3532 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3533 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3534 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3535 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3536 tags from messages in a thread.
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