1 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
2 =========================
7 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
8 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
9 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
10 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
11 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
12 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
13 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
14 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
15 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
16 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
17 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
22 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
23 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
25 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
26 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
27 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
28 - `notmuch_config_get`
30 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
31 now exposed (and generalized).
33 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
34 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
35 session has been fixed.
37 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
38 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
43 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
44 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
46 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
47 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
52 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
53 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
54 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
55 when prompting for senders.
57 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
58 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
61 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
63 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
65 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
66 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
67 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
68 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
69 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
70 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
71 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
73 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
74 ===========================
79 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
84 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
86 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
87 ===========================
92 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
97 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
102 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
104 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
105 ===========================
110 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
111 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
113 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
114 ===========================
119 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
124 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
125 with a C++ header for some compilers.
127 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
129 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
130 =========================
135 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
136 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
137 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
139 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
141 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
143 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
145 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
148 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
150 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
151 search, show and tree mode)
153 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
156 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
159 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
160 always be newest first.
165 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
166 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
167 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
173 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
174 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
175 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
176 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
178 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
179 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
180 non-status providing versions.
182 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
183 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
185 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
186 promised in the documentation.
191 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
192 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
193 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
198 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
199 development version).
204 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
209 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
211 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
212 =========================
217 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
218 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
219 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
222 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
228 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
229 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
230 notmuch-properties(7)).
235 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
236 has protected headers (see
237 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
238 notmuch-properties(7)).
243 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
245 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
246 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
252 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
255 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
256 ===========================
261 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
263 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
268 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
270 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
271 ===========================
276 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
277 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
279 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
280 ===========================
285 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
287 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
288 =========================
293 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
294 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
297 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
298 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
299 the set of headers to be indexed.
301 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
304 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
305 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
306 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
309 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
310 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
311 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
313 Command Line Interface
314 ----------------------
316 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
319 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
321 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
322 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
323 more details about what is included there. This status includes
324 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
329 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
330 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
332 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
334 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
336 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
338 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
340 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
343 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
345 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
346 and may be removed in a future release.
348 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
354 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
356 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
357 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
362 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
363 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
364 cryptography support.
369 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
370 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
371 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
373 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
374 ===========================
376 Command line interface
377 ----------------------
379 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
380 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
382 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
383 ===========================
388 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
389 by message properties.
394 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
396 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
397 ===========================
402 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
407 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
408 now needed to build this documentation.
410 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
411 ===========================
416 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
417 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
419 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
420 =========================
427 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
428 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
429 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
430 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
431 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
434 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
436 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
437 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
438 correct encoding for such messages.
440 Command Line Interface
441 ----------------------
443 Support relative database paths
445 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
446 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
447 to $HOME of the invoking user.
452 Improve stderr handling
454 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
455 needed on e.g. macOS.
457 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
459 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
464 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
465 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
471 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
472 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
478 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
479 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
482 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
483 =========================
488 Add support for thread:{} queries
490 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
491 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
492 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
494 Command Line Interface
495 ----------------------
497 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
499 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
501 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
503 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
504 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
505 does not have to be available during message receipt.
510 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
516 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
517 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
519 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
520 ===========================
525 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
527 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
528 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
529 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
531 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
533 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
534 related abort in `notmuch show`.
536 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
537 ===========================
542 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
543 better late than never.
546 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
547 =========================
549 Command Line Interface
550 ----------------------
552 Support for re-indexing existing messages
554 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
555 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
556 change the way specific messages are indexed.
558 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
559 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
560 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
562 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
564 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
566 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
568 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
569 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
570 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
571 the setting of `new.tags`.
573 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
575 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
577 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
579 This inserts into the top level folder.
581 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
583 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
585 New option --output=address for notmuch address
587 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
589 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
591 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
592 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
593 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
595 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
600 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
602 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
603 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
604 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
605 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
606 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
607 config set index.decrypt true".
609 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
610 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
611 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
612 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
613 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
614 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
615 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
616 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
618 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
619 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
620 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
621 this feature without considering the security of your index.
626 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
628 Use make-process when available
630 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
631 notmuch command without using temporary files.
636 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
638 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
639 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
640 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
641 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
643 New functions to count files
645 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
646 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
648 New function to remove properties
650 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
651 drop all properties with a common pattern:
652 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
654 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
656 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
657 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
658 possibility of NULL was not documented.
660 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
662 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
663 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
664 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
665 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
666 operator may decide to change from message to message.
673 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
674 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
675 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
681 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
683 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
684 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
686 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
688 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
690 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
692 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
697 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
698 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
700 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
701 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
702 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
703 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
704 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
705 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
710 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
712 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
713 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
714 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
715 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
717 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
718 ===========================
723 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
724 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
727 Command Line Interface
728 ----------------------
730 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
731 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
734 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
735 ===========================
737 Command Line Interface
738 ----------------------
740 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
741 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
746 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
749 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
750 ===========================
755 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
758 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
759 =========================
764 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
766 Skip HTML tags when indexing
768 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
770 Command Line Interface
771 ----------------------
773 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
775 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
780 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
782 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
783 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
786 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
791 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
793 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
794 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
796 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
798 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
799 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
802 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
804 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
806 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
808 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
809 ===========================
811 Command Line Interface
812 ----------------------
814 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
819 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
821 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
822 ===========================
827 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
829 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
830 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
833 Command Line Interface
834 ----------------------
836 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
838 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
840 Fix bug in dump header
842 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
843 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
844 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
849 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
851 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
852 =========================
857 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
859 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
862 Command Line Interface
863 ----------------------
865 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
867 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
868 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
869 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
871 New default output format to 3
873 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
874 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
875 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
876 default format changes.
881 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
883 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
884 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
885 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
886 or tree view to resume.
888 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
889 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
890 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
893 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
894 they were when you postponed in the final message.
898 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
899 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
900 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
901 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
902 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
906 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
907 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
908 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
909 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
910 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
911 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
915 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
916 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
918 Stop display of `application/*` parts
920 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
921 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
922 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
923 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
924 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
925 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
926 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
927 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
930 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
932 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
933 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
934 only tagged the current thread.)
936 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
938 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
939 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
940 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
942 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
944 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
945 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
946 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
947 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
948 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
949 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
950 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
952 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
954 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
955 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
956 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
961 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
963 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
966 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
968 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
971 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
972 ===========================
977 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
979 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
980 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
981 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
984 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
985 ===========================
987 Command Line Interface
988 ----------------------
990 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
995 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
997 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
998 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
999 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1001 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1002 ===========================
1007 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1008 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1010 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1011 ===========================
1013 Command Line Interface
1014 ----------------------
1016 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1018 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1019 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1020 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1025 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1027 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1028 ===========================
1030 Command Line Interface
1031 ----------------------
1033 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1038 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1040 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1041 ===========================
1046 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1048 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1049 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1050 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1052 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1054 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1056 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1057 ===========================
1062 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1064 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1069 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1071 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1072 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1073 the original colours.
1075 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1076 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1078 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1080 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1081 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1082 bug, and hence the test.
1084 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1085 =========================
1087 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1088 ---------------------
1090 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1092 Support for single argument date: queries
1094 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1096 Support for blocking opens
1098 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1099 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1101 Support for named queries
1103 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1104 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1105 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1110 Message property API
1112 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1113 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1114 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1115 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1117 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1119 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1124 Support for compile time options
1126 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1127 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1130 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1132 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1133 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1134 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1135 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1136 scripts to ignore it.
1141 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1143 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1144 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1145 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1147 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1148 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1149 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1150 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1151 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1152 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1153 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1155 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1156 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1159 Make internal address completion customizable
1161 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1162 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1163 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1164 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1167 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1169 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1170 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1171 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1172 completion for the current buffer.
1174 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1175 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1176 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1180 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1181 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1182 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1183 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1184 will be added instead.
1186 Face customization is easier
1188 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1189 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1190 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1191 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1193 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1198 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1203 Go bindings moved to contrib
1205 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1207 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1209 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1210 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1212 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1214 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1215 ===========================
1222 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1223 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1225 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1227 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1229 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1230 ===========================
1235 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1237 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1242 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1247 Use `env` to locate perl.
1252 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1254 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1256 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1258 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1260 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1261 =========================
1268 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1269 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1271 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1273 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1274 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1275 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1280 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1281 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1282 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1284 Command Line Interface
1285 ----------------------
1287 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1289 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1294 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1299 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1301 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1302 parts are now included in replies.
1304 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1305 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1306 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1307 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1309 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1311 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1313 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1315 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1316 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1317 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1318 forwards only the current message.
1320 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1322 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1323 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1324 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1325 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1326 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1327 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1328 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1329 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1332 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1333 longer generate empty buffers
1335 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1336 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1337 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1338 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1339 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1341 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1343 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1346 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1348 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1351 Address completion improvements
1353 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1354 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1355 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1356 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1357 interactive address completion.
1359 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1361 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1362 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1363 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1368 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1369 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1370 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1376 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1377 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1378 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1379 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1380 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1381 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1383 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1384 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1385 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1386 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1387 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1388 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1390 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1391 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1393 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1394 =========================
1399 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1402 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1404 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1405 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1406 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1408 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1409 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1411 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1412 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1413 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1415 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1417 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1418 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1419 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1420 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1421 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1422 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1427 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1428 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1431 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1432 option to configure.
1434 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1436 Command Line Interface
1437 ----------------------
1439 Database revision tracking
1441 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1442 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1443 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1444 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1446 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1448 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1449 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1450 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1451 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1452 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1453 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1454 manual page for further information.
1459 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1461 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1462 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1464 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1466 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1467 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1468 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1470 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1472 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1474 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1475 customization as well.
1477 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1479 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1481 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1483 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1485 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1486 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1487 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1488 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1490 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1492 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1493 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1494 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1495 this variable to 10000.
1500 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1501 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1503 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1505 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1506 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1507 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1508 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1509 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1510 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1511 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1512 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1513 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1516 Database revision tracking
1518 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1519 query parser and the new function
1520 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1522 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1524 Deprecated functions
1526 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1527 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1528 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1529 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1534 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1536 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1537 ===========================
1542 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1544 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1545 ===========================
1550 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1552 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1553 =========================
1555 Command-Line Interface
1556 ----------------------
1558 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1560 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1561 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1562 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1564 Path to gpg is now configurable
1566 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1567 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1572 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1574 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1579 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1584 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1589 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1591 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1592 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1594 New error logging facility
1596 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1597 output formerly printed to stderr.
1599 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1601 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1603 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1605 Fix for rounding of seconds
1610 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1612 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1613 documentation has been removed.
1615 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1617 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1618 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1623 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1624 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1625 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1630 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1631 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1632 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1633 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1634 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1635 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1638 git checkout config origin/config
1640 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1642 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1643 =========================
1648 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1649 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1650 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1651 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1652 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1653 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1654 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1656 Command-Line Interface
1657 ----------------------
1659 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1661 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1662 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1663 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1664 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1665 script callers should still check the return value.
1667 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1669 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1670 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1671 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1672 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1673 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1674 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1675 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1677 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1679 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1680 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1681 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1683 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1685 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1686 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1687 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1688 currently unmaintained.
1690 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1692 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1693 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1694 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1695 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1697 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1699 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1700 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1701 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1702 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1703 count of duplicate addresses.
1708 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1710 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1711 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1712 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1715 Improved handling of the unread tag
1717 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1718 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1719 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1720 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1721 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1722 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1723 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1725 Expanded default saved search settings
1727 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1728 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1730 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1732 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1733 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1734 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1736 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1738 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1739 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1740 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1741 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1742 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1743 the variable for details.
1748 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1750 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1751 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1752 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1753 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1755 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1757 Previously, library users were required to call
1758 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1759 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1760 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1761 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1762 too out of date for that API.
1764 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1766 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1767 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1768 atomic section will be aborted.
1770 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1771 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1773 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1775 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1776 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1777 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1778 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1779 messages into the same thread.
1784 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1785 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1786 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1787 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1788 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1789 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1794 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1795 from the config file. Use something like:
1799 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1800 "footer": "</body></html>",
1809 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1814 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1815 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1816 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1818 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1819 ===========================
1824 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1826 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1828 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1830 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1831 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1833 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1835 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1838 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1839 ===========================
1841 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1846 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1848 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1850 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1852 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1854 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1860 Use --quick when starting emacs
1862 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1864 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1866 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1868 Command-Line Interface
1869 ----------------------
1871 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1872 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1877 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1879 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1880 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1882 Fix for phrase indexing
1884 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1885 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1886 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1891 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1893 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1894 unintentionally removed.
1896 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1897 =========================
1902 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1903 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1904 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1905 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1906 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1907 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1908 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1909 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1910 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1916 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1918 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1919 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1920 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1921 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1922 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1923 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1924 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1925 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1927 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1929 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1930 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1931 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1932 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1935 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1937 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1938 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1939 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1940 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1941 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1942 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1943 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1948 Notmuch database upgrade
1950 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1951 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1952 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1953 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1954 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1955 released version of Notmuch before now.
1957 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1959 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1960 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1961 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1962 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1964 Message header parsing changes
1966 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1967 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1968 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1969 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1970 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1971 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1973 Command-Line Interface
1974 ----------------------
1976 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1978 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1980 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1982 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1984 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1986 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1987 user does not want it.
1989 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1991 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1992 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1993 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1994 support formatted output.
1996 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1998 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1999 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2000 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2008 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2009 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2010 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2011 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2012 `~/.emacs` with these.
2014 Changed format for saved searches
2016 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2017 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2018 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2019 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2022 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2023 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2024 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2025 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2027 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2028 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2029 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2031 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2032 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2033 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2034 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2035 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2037 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2039 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2040 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2041 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2043 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2045 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2046 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2047 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2048 message had been unread).
2050 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2051 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2052 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2053 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2055 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2056 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2057 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2059 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2060 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2061 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2062 to tags already present.
2066 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2067 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2068 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2069 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2070 these differ from each other.
2071 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2073 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2075 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2076 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2077 for these Emacs versions.
2079 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2081 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2082 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2084 Bug fixes for sender identities
2086 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2087 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2088 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2090 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2092 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2093 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2094 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2095 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2097 Reply pushes mark before signature
2099 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2100 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2101 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2103 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2105 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2106 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2112 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2113 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2115 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2116 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2117 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2118 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2120 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2121 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2122 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2123 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2124 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2126 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2128 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2129 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2131 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2132 =========================
2134 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2135 ---------------------------------------
2137 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2138 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2139 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2140 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2141 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2142 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2143 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2147 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2148 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2150 Command-Line Interface
2151 ----------------------
2153 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2155 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2156 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2157 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2158 print for each message.
2160 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2161 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2162 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2163 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2165 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2167 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2168 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2169 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2171 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2173 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2174 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2175 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2176 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2178 `notmuch compact` command
2180 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2181 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2182 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2183 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2184 move the compacted database into place.
2189 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2191 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2192 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2193 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2194 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2195 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2196 and multiple threads.
2198 Using `notmuch-tree`
2200 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2202 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2203 search, show and tree mode itself)
2205 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2208 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2209 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2211 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2213 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2214 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2215 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2216 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2217 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2218 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2219 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2221 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2223 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2224 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2225 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2226 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2227 thread when the search was performed.
2229 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2231 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2232 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2233 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2235 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2237 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2238 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2241 Built-in help improvements
2243 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2244 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2245 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2247 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2249 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2250 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2251 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2253 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2255 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2256 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2258 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2260 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2261 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2262 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2263 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2265 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2267 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2268 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2269 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2270 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2272 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2274 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2275 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2276 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2278 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2280 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2281 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2282 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2284 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2286 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2287 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2288 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2289 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2290 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2292 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2294 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2295 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2296 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2297 the body part of the message.
2302 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2303 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2304 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2306 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2307 =========================
2309 Command-Line Interface
2310 ----------------------
2312 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2314 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2315 folder and notmuch index.
2317 `notmuch count --batch` option
2319 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2320 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2322 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2324 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2325 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2326 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2329 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2331 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2332 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2333 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2334 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2335 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2338 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2340 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2341 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2343 Top level option to specify configuration file
2345 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2346 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2348 Bash command-line completion
2350 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2351 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2352 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2353 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2354 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2355 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2356 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2357 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2358 bash-completion package.
2360 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2365 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2367 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2368 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2369 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2370 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2371 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2372 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2373 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2374 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2376 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2378 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2379 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2380 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2382 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2384 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2385 previous thread in the search results.
2387 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2389 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2390 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2392 Faster search and show
2394 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2395 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2396 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2397 threads should show faster.
2401 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2402 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2403 in question was now removed from this release.
2408 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2409 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2414 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2416 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2417 ===========================
2422 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2424 Internal test framework changes
2425 -------------------------------
2427 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2428 being unimplemented.
2430 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2431 ===========================
2433 Internal test framework changes
2434 -------------------------------
2436 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2437 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2439 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2440 =========================
2445 Date range search support
2447 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2448 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2449 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2450 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2451 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2454 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2456 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2457 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2458 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2459 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2460 but may be removed in a future release.
2462 Command-Line Interface
2463 ----------------------
2465 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2467 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2468 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2470 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2472 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2473 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2474 officially deprecated.
2476 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2478 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2479 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2480 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2482 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2484 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2485 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2488 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2489 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2490 dump/restore format.
2492 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2494 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2495 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2496 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2498 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2500 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2501 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2502 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2504 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2506 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2507 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2508 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2509 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2514 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2516 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2517 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2518 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2519 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2521 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2523 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2524 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2525 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2526 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2527 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2528 the behavior of this, see
2529 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2530 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2532 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2533 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2534 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2536 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2538 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2539 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2542 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2544 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2545 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2546 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2547 simply displayed in place of the message.
2549 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2551 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2552 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2554 Improved text/calendar content handling
2556 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2557 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2558 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2559 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2561 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2563 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2564 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2565 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2566 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2568 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2570 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2571 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2572 for HTML email containing images.
2574 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2576 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2578 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2580 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2583 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2585 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2586 the point where it was.
2588 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2590 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2591 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2592 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2593 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2594 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2596 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2598 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2599 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2600 thread instead of the message id.
2602 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2603 -----------------------------
2605 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2606 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2607 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2608 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2609 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2610 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2611 further details and installation.
2616 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2618 Internal test framework changes
2619 -------------------------------
2621 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2623 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2624 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2625 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2626 can result in buggy behavior.
2628 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2629 =========================
2634 Maildir tag synchronization
2636 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2637 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2638 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2639 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2640 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2641 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2644 Command-Line Interface
2645 ----------------------
2647 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2648 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2649 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2650 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2651 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2657 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2659 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2661 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2662 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2663 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2665 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2667 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2668 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2669 span multiple lines.
2671 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2673 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2674 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2675 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2676 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2677 inside the result or message.
2679 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2681 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2682 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2684 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2685 user-specified formatting
2687 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2688 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2689 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2690 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2691 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2693 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2694 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2696 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2697 ===========================
2702 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2703 compilation error for this contrib package.
2705 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2706 ===========================
2711 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2713 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2714 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2715 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2716 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2718 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2719 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2722 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2723 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2724 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2725 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2728 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2730 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2733 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2734 =========================
2736 Command-Line Interface
2737 ----------------------
2741 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2742 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2743 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2744 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2746 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2747 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2748 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2749 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2753 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2754 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2756 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2757 tag in your query, for example:
2759 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2761 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2762 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2764 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2765 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2767 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2769 Raw show format changes
2771 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2772 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2773 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2774 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2775 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2776 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2777 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2778 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2780 Listing configuration items
2782 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2788 Changes to tagging interface
2790 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2791 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2792 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2793 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2794 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2795 for more information.
2797 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2798 may need to update in custom configurations.
2800 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2802 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2803 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2804 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2805 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2808 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2809 -----------------------------
2811 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2812 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2813 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2814 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2815 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2816 contrib/ from now on.
2821 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2822 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2824 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2825 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2827 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2828 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2829 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2831 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2832 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2834 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2835 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2836 returning the new database object or directory object.
2843 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2844 compatible with go 1.
2846 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2847 =========================
2849 Command-Line Interface
2850 ----------------------
2854 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2855 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2856 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2857 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2859 Mail store folder/file ignore
2861 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2862 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2863 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2865 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2866 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2868 Unified help and manual pages
2870 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2871 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2874 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2876 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2877 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2885 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2886 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2887 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2888 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2890 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2892 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2893 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2895 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2898 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2899 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2900 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2902 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2904 should be changed to:
2906 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2908 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2910 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2911 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2913 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2915 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2916 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2917 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2918 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2919 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2920 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2924 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2925 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2926 of Mailing List Archives.
2928 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2930 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2931 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2934 Show view archiving key binding changes
2936 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2937 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2938 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2939 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2940 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2943 Support text/calendar MIME type
2945 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2948 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2950 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2951 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2952 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2953 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2955 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2957 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2958 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2959 messages blue by default in the search view.
2963 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2964 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2971 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2974 Python bindings changes
2975 -----------------------
2977 Python 3.2 compatibility
2979 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2981 Added missing unicode conversions
2983 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2984 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2985 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2990 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2992 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2993 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2994 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2995 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2996 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2998 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2999 ===========================
3004 Fix error handling in python bindings
3006 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3007 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3008 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3009 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3011 Quote MML tags in replies
3013 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3014 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3015 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3016 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3017 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3018 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3019 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3020 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3022 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3023 =========================
3025 Command-Line Interface
3026 ----------------------
3030 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3031 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3032 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3033 importing new messages into the database.
3035 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3037 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3038 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3039 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3044 Automatic tag query optimization
3046 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3047 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3048 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3050 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3052 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3053 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3054 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3059 Reduction of memory leaks
3061 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3062 and fixed in this release.
3069 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3070 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3071 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3074 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3076 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3077 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3078 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3081 Improvements in saved search management
3083 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3084 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3085 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3087 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3089 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3090 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3091 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3093 New face for crypto parts headers
3095 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3096 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3097 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3100 Use space as default thousands separator
3102 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3103 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3104 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3106 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3107 buttonized id: links
3109 New function notmuch-show-advance
3111 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3112 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3113 be bound to SPC with:
3115 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3117 Various performance improvements
3122 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3123 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3126 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3127 ===========================
3132 Fix crash in python bindings
3134 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3135 for some, but not all users.
3137 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3138 ===========================
3143 Fix `--help` argument
3145 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3146 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3147 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3149 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3150 =========================
3152 New build and testing features
3153 ------------------------------
3155 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3156 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3157 prerequisites is improved.
3159 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3161 New command-line features
3162 -------------------------
3164 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3166 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3167 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3170 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3172 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3173 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3174 favour of using stdout.
3176 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3178 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3179 limit the number of results shown.
3181 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3183 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3184 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3187 New emacs UI features
3188 ---------------------
3190 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3192 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3193 starting with "tag:".
3195 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3197 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3198 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3200 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3202 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3204 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3206 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3207 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3212 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3214 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3216 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3217 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3218 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3219 requires a database rebuild:
3221 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3222 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3224 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3226 New collection of add-on tools
3227 ------------------------------
3229 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3230 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3231 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3234 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3236 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3237 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3238 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3240 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3241 ========================
3243 New, general features
3244 ---------------------
3246 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3248 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3249 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3250 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3251 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3252 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3259 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3260 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3262 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3266 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3267 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3268 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3271 Python bindings changes
3272 -----------------------
3274 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3276 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3277 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3278 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3279 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3280 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3281 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3283 Ruby bindings changes
3284 ---------------------
3286 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3287 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3288 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3289 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3294 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3296 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3297 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3299 Reply formatting cleanup
3300 ------------------------
3302 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3303 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3305 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3306 ========================
3308 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3310 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3311 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3312 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3313 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3316 Improved Build system portability
3318 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3319 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3320 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3322 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3324 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3326 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3328 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3329 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3330 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3332 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3333 ========================
3335 Vim interface improvements
3336 --------------------------
3338 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3340 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3341 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3342 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3343 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3344 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3346 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3348 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3349 * fix compose temp file name
3351 Python Bindings changes
3352 -----------------------
3354 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3356 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3357 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3359 Build-System improvements
3360 -------------------------
3362 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3364 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3367 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3368 ==========================
3373 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3375 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3376 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3378 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3379 =======================
3381 New, general features
3382 ---------------------
3384 Folder-based searching
3386 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3387 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3388 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3392 For example, one might use things such as:
3398 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3399 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3401 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3402 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3403 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3404 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3406 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3407 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3408 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3411 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3412 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3414 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3416 Support for PGP/MIME
3418 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3419 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3420 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3422 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3424 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3425 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3427 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3428 notmuch will receive these tags.
3430 New command-line features
3431 -------------------------
3433 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3435 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3436 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3438 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3440 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3441 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3442 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3444 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3446 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3447 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3448 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3449 which parts a signature part applies).
3451 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3453 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3454 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3455 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3456 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3457 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3460 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3462 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3463 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3464 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3465 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3466 by translating it internally to the new call.
3468 Performance improvements
3469 ------------------------
3471 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3473 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3474 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3475 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3477 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3478 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3480 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3482 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3483 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3484 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3486 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3487 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3488 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3489 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3491 Faster initial indexing
3493 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3494 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3495 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3497 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3499 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3500 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3501 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3502 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3504 New emacs-interface features
3505 ----------------------------
3507 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3509 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3510 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3511 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3512 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3513 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3514 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3516 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3518 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3519 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3520 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3521 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3523 User-selectable From address
3525 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3526 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3527 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3528 will prompt for the from address to use.
3530 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3531 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3532 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3534 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3535 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3536 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3539 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3541 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3542 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3544 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3546 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3548 ----- Original Message -----
3550 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3551 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3552 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3553 citations work much like conventional citations.
3555 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3557 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3558 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3559 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3560 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3561 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3563 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3564 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3566 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3568 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3569 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3570 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3572 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3574 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3575 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3576 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3577 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3578 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3580 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3582 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3585 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3587 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3589 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3591 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3594 Vim interface improvements
3595 --------------------------
3597 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3599 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3600 * Implementing archive in show view
3601 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3602 * Add delete commands
3605 Bindings improvements
3606 ---------------------
3608 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3610 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3611 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3613 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3615 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3619 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3620 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3621 `list(Messages)` works now
3622 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3624 These allow, for example:
3626 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3628 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3630 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3636 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3638 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3641 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3643 New build-system features
3644 -------------------------
3646 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3648 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3649 the configure script from some other directory:
3656 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3658 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3659 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3660 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3661 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3662 manual invocation of configure.
3664 New test-suite feature
3665 ----------------------
3667 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3669 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3670 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3671 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3672 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3673 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3676 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3678 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3679 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3680 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3681 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3682 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3683 are updated to take advantage of this.
3685 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3687 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3688 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3689 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3690 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3696 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3698 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3699 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3700 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3702 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3704 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3706 to:user@elsewhere.com
3708 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3710 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3712 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3714 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3715 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3716 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3719 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3720 from the Received headers in some cases
3722 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3723 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3725 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3727 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3729 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3731 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3732 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3733 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3735 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3736 -------------------------
3738 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3740 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3741 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3742 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3744 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3746 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3747 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3748 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3751 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3753 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3754 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3755 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3756 fixed to avoid this bug.
3758 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3760 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3761 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3763 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3764 ========================
3766 New, general features
3767 ---------------------
3769 Maildir-flag synchronization
3771 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3772 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3781 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3783 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3784 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3785 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3786 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3788 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3789 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3790 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3791 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3794 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3796 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3797 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3798 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3800 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3801 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3803 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3804 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3806 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3807 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3808 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3810 New library features
3811 --------------------
3813 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3815 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3816 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3817 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3818 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3820 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3821 message with the new function:
3823 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3825 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3826 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3827 over all available filenames for a given message.
3829 New command-line features
3830 -------------------------
3832 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3834 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3835 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3836 access to the mail store itself.
3838 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3839 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3840 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3841 name of a script containing:
3843 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3845 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3846 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3852 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3854 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3856 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3858 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3859 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3860 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3861 now produces nothing).
3863 Emacs interface improvements
3864 ----------------------------
3866 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3868 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3870 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3872 Display current thread subject in a header line
3874 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3876 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3878 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3879 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3880 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3881 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3882 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3883 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3884 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3886 Vim interface improvements
3887 --------------------------
3889 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3891 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3892 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3898 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3900 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3901 ========================
3903 New command-line features
3904 -------------------------
3906 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3908 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3909 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3910 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3912 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3913 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3914 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3915 scripts. For example:
3917 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3918 <operations-on> "$file"
3921 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3923 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3924 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3925 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3926 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3927 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3928 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3930 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3932 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3933 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3934 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3935 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3937 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3939 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3940 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3941 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3942 default rather than Bcc.
3944 New library features
3945 --------------------
3947 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3949 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3950 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3955 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3957 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3958 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3959 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3960 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3961 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3962 notmuch customize interface.
3964 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3966 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3967 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3968 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3969 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3971 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3973 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3974 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3975 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3976 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3978 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3980 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3981 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3982 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3983 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3984 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3985 notmuch customize interface.
3987 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3989 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3990 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3991 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3992 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3993 notmuch customize interface.
3995 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3997 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3998 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3999 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4000 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4003 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4005 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4006 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4007 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4010 New build-system features
4011 -------------------------
4013 Various portability fixes have been applied
4015 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4016 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4017 more portable than ever before.
4019 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4021 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4022 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4023 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4025 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4026 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4027 automatically run ldconfig.
4029 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4030 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4031 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4033 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4034 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4035 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4036 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4038 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4040 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4041 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4042 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4043 used in the resulting Makefile.
4045 New test-suite features
4046 -----------------------
4048 New modularization of test suite
4050 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4051 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4052 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4053 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4054 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4055 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4056 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4057 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4059 New testing of emacs interface
4061 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4062 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4063 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4064 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4065 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4066 database via the FCC setting.
4071 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4073 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4074 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4075 persistent error of the form:
4077 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4079 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4080 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4082 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4084 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4085 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4086 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4088 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4090 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4091 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4092 parsing the notmuch results).
4094 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4096 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4099 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4100 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4101 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4106 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4108 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4109 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4110 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4111 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4112 the emacs interface.
4114 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4116 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4117 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4118 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4120 Python-binding fixes
4121 --------------------
4123 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4125 Debian-specific fixes
4126 ---------------------
4128 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4130 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4131 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4132 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4135 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4136 ==========================
4141 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4143 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4144 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4145 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4146 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4148 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4150 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4151 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4152 want notmuch to crash.
4157 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4159 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4160 directory does not exist
4165 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4167 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4168 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4170 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4171 ========================
4173 New command-line features
4174 -------------------------
4176 User-configurable tags for new messages
4178 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4179 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4180 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4181 to specify this value.
4183 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4185 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4186 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4187 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4189 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4191 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4192 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4194 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4196 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4197 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4198 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4199 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4200 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4203 Indication of author names that match a search
4205 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4206 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4207 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4208 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4209 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4210 messages in the thread are listed first.
4212 New: Python bindings
4213 --------------------
4215 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4216 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4217 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4218 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4220 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4221 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4222 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4225 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4226 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4227 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4229 Emacs interface improvements
4230 ----------------------------
4232 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4234 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4235 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4236 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4237 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4238 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4239 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4240 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4241 but without any of the disadvantages).
4243 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4244 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4245 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4248 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4249 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4250 instead running something like:
4252 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4254 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4255 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4256 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4259 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4261 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4262 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4263 tweaked by the user.
4265 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4266 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4267 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4270 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4271 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4272 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4275 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4277 This support currently relies on an external program,
4278 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4279 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4280 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4281 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4282 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4285 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4286 notmuch) is available via:
4288 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4290 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4291 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4292 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4294 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4296 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4297 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4298 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4299 making this automatic in a future release.
4301 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4303 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4304 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4305 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4306 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4307 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4308 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4311 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4313 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4314 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4315 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4317 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4319 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4320 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4321 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4323 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4324 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4325 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4326 other representation.
4328 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4329 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4332 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4334 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4335 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4336 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4338 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4339 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4340 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4342 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4344 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4345 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4346 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4347 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4348 to display the search result.
4350 More flexible handling of header visibility
4352 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4353 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4354 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4355 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4356 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4357 with the 'h' keybinding.
4359 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4360 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4361 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4363 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4365 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4367 Customizable formatting of search results
4369 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4370 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4371 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4373 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4375 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4377 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4382 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4384 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4385 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4386 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4387 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4393 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4395 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4396 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4398 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4400 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4401 accept are now all accepted.
4406 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4408 Better display of output from failed tests
4410 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4411 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4413 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4414 ========================
4416 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4417 detailed release notes this time!
4419 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4420 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4422 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4423 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4424 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4425 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4432 Better guessing of From: header
4434 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4435 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4436 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4437 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4438 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4441 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4443 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4444 guaranteed to match all messages.
4446 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4448 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4449 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4450 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4451 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4452 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4455 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4458 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4459 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4460 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4461 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4466 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4468 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4469 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4470 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4471 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4473 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4475 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4477 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4478 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4479 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4481 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4483 Previously, the user might see:
4485 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4489 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4491 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4492 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4493 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4494 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4496 Emacs client features
4497 ---------------------
4499 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4501 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4502 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4503 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4504 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4505 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4507 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4510 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4511 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4512 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4513 search with the '*' binding.
4515 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4517 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4518 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4521 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4523 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4524 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4525 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4527 Build-system features
4528 ---------------------
4530 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4532 Add support to configure for many standard options
4534 We include actual support for:
4536 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4538 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4540 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4541 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4543 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4544 separate "make install-emacs"
4546 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4548 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4549 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4550 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4552 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4555 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4556 ========================
4558 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4560 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4561 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4563 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4564 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4565 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4566 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4567 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4568 tags from messages in a thread.
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