1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
8 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
11 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
12 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
13 the set of headers to be indexed.
15 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
18 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
19 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
20 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
23 Command Line Interface
24 ----------------------
26 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
29 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
31 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
32 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
33 more details about what is included there.
38 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
40 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
41 and may be removed in a future release.
43 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
49 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
51 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
52 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
57 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
58 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
64 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
65 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
66 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
68 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
69 ===========================
71 Command line interface
72 ----------------------
74 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
75 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
77 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
78 ===========================
83 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
84 by message properties.
89 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
91 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
92 ===========================
97 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
102 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
103 now needed to build this documentation.
105 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
106 ===========================
111 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
112 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
114 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
115 =========================
122 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
123 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
124 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
125 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
126 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
129 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
131 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
132 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
133 correct encoding for such messages.
135 Command Line Interface
136 ----------------------
138 Support relative database paths
140 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
141 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
142 to $HOME of the invoking user.
147 Improve stderr handling
149 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
150 needed on e.g. macOS.
152 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
154 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
159 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
160 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
166 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
167 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
173 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
174 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
177 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
178 =========================
183 Add support for thread:{} queries
185 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
186 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
187 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
189 Command Line Interface
190 ----------------------
192 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
194 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
196 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
198 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
199 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
200 does not have to be available during message receipt.
205 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
211 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
212 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
214 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
215 ===========================
220 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
222 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
223 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
224 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
226 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
228 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
229 related abort in `notmuch show`.
231 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
232 ===========================
237 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
238 better late than never.
241 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
242 =========================
244 Command Line Interface
245 ----------------------
247 Support for re-indexing existing messages
249 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
250 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
251 change the way specific messages are indexed.
253 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
254 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
255 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
257 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
259 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
261 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
263 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
264 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
265 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
266 the setting of `new.tags`.
268 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
270 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
272 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
274 This inserts into the top level folder.
276 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
278 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
280 New option --output=address for notmuch address
282 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
284 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
286 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
287 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
288 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
290 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
295 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
297 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
298 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
299 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
300 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
301 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
302 config set index.decrypt true".
304 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
305 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
306 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
307 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
308 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
309 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
310 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
311 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
313 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
314 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
315 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
316 this feature without considering the security of your index.
321 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
323 Use make-process when available
325 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
326 notmuch command without using temporary files.
331 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
333 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
334 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
335 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
336 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
338 New functions to count files
340 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
341 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
343 New function to remove properties
345 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
346 drop all properties with a common pattern:
347 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
349 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
351 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
352 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
353 possibility of NULL was not documented.
355 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
357 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
358 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
359 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
360 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
361 operator may decide to change from message to message.
368 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
369 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
370 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
376 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
378 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
379 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
381 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
383 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
385 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
387 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
392 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
393 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
395 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
396 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
397 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
398 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
399 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
400 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
405 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
407 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
408 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
409 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
410 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
412 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
413 ===========================
418 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
419 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
422 Command Line Interface
423 ----------------------
425 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
426 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
429 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
430 ===========================
432 Command Line Interface
433 ----------------------
435 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
436 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
441 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
444 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
445 ===========================
450 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
453 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
454 =========================
459 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
461 Skip HTML tags when indexing
463 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
465 Command Line Interface
466 ----------------------
468 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
470 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
475 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
477 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
478 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
481 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
486 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
488 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
489 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
491 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
493 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
494 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
497 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
499 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
501 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
503 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
504 ===========================
506 Command Line Interface
507 ----------------------
509 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
514 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
516 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
517 ===========================
522 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
524 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
525 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
528 Command Line Interface
529 ----------------------
531 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
533 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
535 Fix bug in dump header
537 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
538 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
539 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
544 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
546 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
547 =========================
552 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
554 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
557 Command Line Interface
558 ----------------------
560 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
562 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
563 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
564 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
566 New default output format to 3
568 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
569 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
570 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
571 default format changes.
576 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
578 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
579 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
580 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
581 or tree view to resume.
583 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
584 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
585 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
588 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
589 they were when you postponed in the final message.
593 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
594 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
595 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
596 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
597 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
601 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
602 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
603 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
604 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
605 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
606 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
610 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
611 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
613 Stop display of `application/*` parts
615 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
616 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
617 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
618 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
619 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
620 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
621 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
622 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
625 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
627 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
628 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
629 only tagged the current thread.)
631 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
633 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
634 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
635 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
637 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
639 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
640 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
641 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
642 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
643 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
644 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
645 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
647 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
649 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
650 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
651 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
656 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
658 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
661 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
663 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
666 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
667 ===========================
672 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
674 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
675 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
676 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
679 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
680 ===========================
682 Command Line Interface
683 ----------------------
685 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
690 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
692 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
693 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
694 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
696 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
697 ===========================
702 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
703 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
705 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
706 ===========================
708 Command Line Interface
709 ----------------------
711 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
713 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
714 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
715 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
720 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
722 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
723 ===========================
725 Command Line Interface
726 ----------------------
728 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
733 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
735 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
736 ===========================
741 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
743 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
744 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
745 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
747 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
749 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
751 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
752 ===========================
757 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
759 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
764 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
766 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
767 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
768 the original colours.
770 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
771 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
773 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
775 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
776 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
777 bug, and hence the test.
779 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
780 =========================
782 General (Xapian 1.4+)
783 ---------------------
785 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
787 Support for single argument date: queries
789 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
791 Support for blocking opens
793 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
794 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
796 Support for named queries
798 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
799 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
800 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
807 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
808 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
809 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
810 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
812 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
814 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
819 Support for compile time options
821 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
822 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
825 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
827 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
828 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
829 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
830 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
831 scripts to ignore it.
836 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
838 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
839 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
840 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
842 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
843 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
844 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
845 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
846 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
847 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
848 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
850 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
851 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
854 Make internal address completion customizable
856 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
857 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
858 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
859 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
862 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
864 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
865 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
866 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
867 completion for the current buffer.
869 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
870 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
871 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
875 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
876 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
877 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
878 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
879 will be added instead.
881 Face customization is easier
883 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
884 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
885 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
886 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
888 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
893 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
898 Go bindings moved to contrib
900 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
902 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
904 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
905 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
907 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
909 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
910 ===========================
917 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
918 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
920 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
922 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
924 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
925 ===========================
930 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
932 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
937 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
942 Use `env` to locate perl.
947 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
949 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
951 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
953 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
955 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
956 =========================
963 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
964 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
966 Limited support for S/MIME messages
968 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
969 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
970 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
975 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
976 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
977 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
979 Command Line Interface
980 ----------------------
982 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
984 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
989 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
994 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
996 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
997 parts are now included in replies.
999 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1000 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1001 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1002 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1004 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1006 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1008 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1010 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1011 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1012 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1013 forwards only the current message.
1015 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1017 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1018 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1019 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1020 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1021 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1022 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1023 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1024 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1027 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1028 longer generate empty buffers
1030 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1031 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1032 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1033 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1034 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1036 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1038 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1041 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1043 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1046 Address completion improvements
1048 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1049 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1050 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1051 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1052 interactive address completion.
1054 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1056 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1057 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1058 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1063 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1064 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1065 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1071 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1072 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1073 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1074 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1075 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1076 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1078 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1079 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1080 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1081 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1082 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1083 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1085 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1086 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1088 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1089 =========================
1094 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1097 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1099 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1100 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1101 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1103 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1104 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1106 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1107 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1108 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1110 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1112 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1113 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1114 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1115 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1116 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1117 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1122 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1123 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1126 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1127 option to configure.
1129 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1131 Command Line Interface
1132 ----------------------
1134 Database revision tracking
1136 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1137 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1138 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1139 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1141 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1143 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1144 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1145 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1146 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1147 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1148 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1149 manual page for further information.
1154 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1156 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1157 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1159 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1161 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1162 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1163 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1165 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1167 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1169 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1170 customization as well.
1172 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1174 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1176 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1178 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1180 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1181 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1182 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1183 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1185 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1187 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1188 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1189 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1190 this variable to 10000.
1195 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1196 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1198 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1200 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1201 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1202 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1203 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1204 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1205 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1206 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1207 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1208 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1211 Database revision tracking
1213 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1214 query parser and the new function
1215 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1217 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1219 Deprecated functions
1221 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1222 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1223 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1224 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1229 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1231 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1232 ===========================
1237 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1239 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1240 ===========================
1245 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1247 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1248 =========================
1250 Command-Line Interface
1251 ----------------------
1253 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1255 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1256 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1257 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1259 Path to gpg is now configurable
1261 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1262 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1267 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1269 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1274 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1279 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1284 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1286 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1287 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1289 New error logging facility
1291 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1292 output formerly printed to stderr.
1294 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1296 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1298 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1300 Fix for rounding of seconds
1305 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1307 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1308 documentation has been removed.
1310 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1312 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1313 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1318 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1319 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1320 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1325 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1326 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1327 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1328 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1329 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1330 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1333 git checkout config origin/config
1335 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1337 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1338 =========================
1343 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1344 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1345 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1346 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1347 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1348 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1349 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1351 Command-Line Interface
1352 ----------------------
1354 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1356 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1357 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1358 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1359 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1360 script callers should still check the return value.
1362 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1364 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1365 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1366 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1367 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1368 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1369 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1370 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1372 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1374 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1375 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1376 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1378 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1380 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1381 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1382 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1383 currently unmaintained.
1385 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1387 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1388 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1389 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1390 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1392 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1394 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1395 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1396 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1397 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1398 count of duplicate addresses.
1403 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1405 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1406 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1407 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1410 Improved handling of the unread tag
1412 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1413 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1414 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1415 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1416 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1417 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1418 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1420 Expanded default saved search settings
1422 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1423 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1425 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1427 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1428 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1429 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1431 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1433 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1434 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1435 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1436 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1437 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1438 the variable for details.
1443 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1445 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1446 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1447 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1448 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1450 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1452 Previously, library users were required to call
1453 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1454 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1455 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1456 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1457 too out of date for that API.
1459 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1461 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1462 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1463 atomic section will be aborted.
1465 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1466 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1468 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1470 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1471 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1472 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1473 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1474 messages into the same thread.
1479 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1480 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1481 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1482 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1483 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1484 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1489 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1490 from the config file. Use something like:
1494 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1495 "footer": "</body></html>",
1504 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1509 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1510 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1511 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1513 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1514 ===========================
1519 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1521 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1523 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1525 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1526 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1528 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1530 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1533 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1534 ===========================
1536 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1541 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1543 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1545 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1547 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1549 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1555 Use --quick when starting emacs
1557 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1559 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1561 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1563 Command-Line Interface
1564 ----------------------
1566 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1567 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1572 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1574 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1575 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1577 Fix for phrase indexing
1579 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1580 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1581 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1586 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1588 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1589 unintentionally removed.
1591 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1592 =========================
1597 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1598 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1599 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1600 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1601 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1602 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1603 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1604 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1605 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1611 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1613 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1614 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1615 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1616 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1617 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1618 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1619 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1620 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1622 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1624 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1625 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1626 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1627 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1630 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1632 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1633 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1634 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1635 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1636 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1637 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1638 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1643 Notmuch database upgrade
1645 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1646 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1647 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1648 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1649 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1650 released version of Notmuch before now.
1652 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1654 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1655 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1656 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1657 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1659 Message header parsing changes
1661 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1662 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1663 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1664 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1665 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1666 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1668 Command-Line Interface
1669 ----------------------
1671 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1673 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1675 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1677 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1679 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1681 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1682 user does not want it.
1684 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1686 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1687 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1688 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1689 support formatted output.
1691 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1693 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1694 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1695 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1703 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1704 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1705 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1706 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1707 `~/.emacs` with these.
1709 Changed format for saved searches
1711 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1712 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1713 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1714 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1717 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1718 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1719 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1720 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1722 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1723 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1724 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1726 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1727 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1728 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1729 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1730 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1732 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1734 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1735 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1736 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1738 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1740 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1741 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1742 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1743 message had been unread).
1745 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1746 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1747 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1748 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1750 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1751 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1752 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1754 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1755 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1756 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1757 to tags already present.
1761 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1762 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1763 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1764 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1765 these differ from each other.
1766 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1768 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1770 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1771 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1772 for these Emacs versions.
1774 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1776 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1777 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1779 Bug fixes for sender identities
1781 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1782 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1783 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1785 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1787 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1788 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1789 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1790 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1792 Reply pushes mark before signature
1794 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1795 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1796 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1798 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1800 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1801 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1807 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1808 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1810 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1811 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1812 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1813 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1815 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1816 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1817 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1818 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1819 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1821 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1823 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1824 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1826 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1827 =========================
1829 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1830 ---------------------------------------
1832 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1833 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1834 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1835 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1836 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1837 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1838 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1842 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1843 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1845 Command-Line Interface
1846 ----------------------
1848 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1850 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1851 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1852 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1853 print for each message.
1855 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1856 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1857 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1858 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1860 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1862 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1863 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1864 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1866 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1868 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1869 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1870 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1871 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1873 `notmuch compact` command
1875 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1876 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1877 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1878 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1879 move the compacted database into place.
1884 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1886 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1887 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1888 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1889 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1890 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1891 and multiple threads.
1893 Using `notmuch-tree`
1895 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1897 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1898 search, show and tree mode itself)
1900 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1903 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1904 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1906 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1908 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1909 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1910 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1911 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1912 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1913 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1914 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1916 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1918 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1919 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1920 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1921 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1922 thread when the search was performed.
1924 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1926 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1927 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1928 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1930 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1932 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1933 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1936 Built-in help improvements
1938 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1939 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1940 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1942 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1944 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1945 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1946 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1948 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1950 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1951 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1953 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1955 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1956 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1957 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1958 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1960 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1962 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1963 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1964 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1965 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1967 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1969 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1970 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1971 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1973 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1975 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1976 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1977 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1979 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1981 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1982 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1983 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1984 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1985 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1987 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1989 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1990 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1991 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1992 the body part of the message.
1997 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1998 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1999 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2001 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2002 =========================
2004 Command-Line Interface
2005 ----------------------
2007 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2009 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2010 folder and notmuch index.
2012 `notmuch count --batch` option
2014 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2015 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2017 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2019 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2020 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2021 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2024 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2026 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2027 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2028 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2029 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2030 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2033 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2035 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2036 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2038 Top level option to specify configuration file
2040 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2041 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2043 Bash command-line completion
2045 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2046 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2047 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2048 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2049 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2050 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2051 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2052 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2053 bash-completion package.
2055 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2060 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2062 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2063 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2064 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2065 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2066 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2067 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2068 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2069 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2071 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2073 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2074 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2075 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2077 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2079 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2080 previous thread in the search results.
2082 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2084 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2085 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2087 Faster search and show
2089 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2090 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2091 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2092 threads should show faster.
2096 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2097 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2098 in question was now removed from this release.
2103 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2104 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2109 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2111 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2112 ===========================
2117 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2119 Internal test framework changes
2120 -------------------------------
2122 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2123 being unimplemented.
2125 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2126 ===========================
2128 Internal test framework changes
2129 -------------------------------
2131 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2132 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2134 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2135 =========================
2140 Date range search support
2142 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2143 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2144 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2145 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2146 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2149 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2151 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2152 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2153 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2154 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2155 but may be removed in a future release.
2157 Command-Line Interface
2158 ----------------------
2160 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2162 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2163 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2165 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2167 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2168 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2169 officially deprecated.
2171 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2173 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2174 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2175 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2177 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2179 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2180 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2183 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2184 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2185 dump/restore format.
2187 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2189 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2190 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2191 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2193 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2195 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2196 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2197 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2199 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2201 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2202 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2203 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2204 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2209 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2211 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2212 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2213 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2214 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2216 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2218 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2219 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2220 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2221 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2222 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2223 the behavior of this, see
2224 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2225 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2227 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2228 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2229 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2231 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2233 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2234 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2237 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2239 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2240 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2241 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2242 simply displayed in place of the message.
2244 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2246 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2247 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2249 Improved text/calendar content handling
2251 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2252 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2253 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2254 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2256 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2258 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2259 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2260 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2261 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2263 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2265 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2266 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2267 for HTML email containing images.
2269 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2271 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2273 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2275 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2278 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2280 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2281 the point where it was.
2283 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2285 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2286 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2287 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2288 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2289 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2291 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2293 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2294 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2295 thread instead of the message id.
2297 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2298 -----------------------------
2300 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2301 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2302 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2303 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2304 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2305 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2306 further details and installation.
2311 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2313 Internal test framework changes
2314 -------------------------------
2316 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2318 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2319 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2320 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2321 can result in buggy behavior.
2323 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2324 =========================
2329 Maildir tag synchronization
2331 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2332 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2333 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2334 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2335 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2336 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2339 Command-Line Interface
2340 ----------------------
2342 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2343 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2344 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2345 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2346 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2352 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2354 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2356 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2357 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2358 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2360 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2362 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2363 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2364 span multiple lines.
2366 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2368 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2369 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2370 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2371 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2372 inside the result or message.
2374 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2376 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2377 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2379 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2380 user-specified formatting
2382 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2383 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2384 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2385 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2386 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2388 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2389 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2391 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2392 ===========================
2397 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2398 compilation error for this contrib package.
2400 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2401 ===========================
2406 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2408 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2409 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2410 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2411 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2413 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2414 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2417 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2418 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2419 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2420 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2423 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2425 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2428 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2429 =========================
2431 Command-Line Interface
2432 ----------------------
2436 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2437 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2438 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2439 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2441 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2442 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2443 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2444 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2448 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2449 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2451 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2452 tag in your query, for example:
2454 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2456 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2457 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2459 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2460 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2462 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2464 Raw show format changes
2466 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2467 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2468 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2469 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2470 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2471 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2472 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2473 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2475 Listing configuration items
2477 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2483 Changes to tagging interface
2485 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2486 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2487 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2488 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2489 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2490 for more information.
2492 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2493 may need to update in custom configurations.
2495 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2497 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2498 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2499 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2500 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2503 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2504 -----------------------------
2506 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2507 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2508 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2509 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2510 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2511 contrib/ from now on.
2516 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2517 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2519 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2520 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2522 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2523 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2524 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2526 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2527 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2529 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2530 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2531 returning the new database object or directory object.
2538 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2539 compatible with go 1.
2541 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2542 =========================
2544 Command-Line Interface
2545 ----------------------
2549 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2550 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2551 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2552 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2554 Mail store folder/file ignore
2556 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2557 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2558 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2560 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2561 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2563 Unified help and manual pages
2565 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2566 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2569 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2571 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2572 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2580 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2581 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2582 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2583 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2585 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2587 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2588 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2590 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2593 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2594 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2595 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2597 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2599 should be changed to:
2601 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2603 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2605 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2606 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2608 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2610 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2611 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2612 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2613 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2614 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2615 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2619 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2620 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2621 of Mailing List Archives.
2623 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2625 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2626 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2629 Show view archiving key binding changes
2631 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2632 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2633 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2634 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2635 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2638 Support text/calendar MIME type
2640 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2643 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2645 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2646 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2647 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2648 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2650 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2652 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2653 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2654 messages blue by default in the search view.
2658 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2659 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2666 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2669 Python bindings changes
2670 -----------------------
2672 Python 3.2 compatibility
2674 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2676 Added missing unicode conversions
2678 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2679 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2680 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2685 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2687 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2688 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2689 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2690 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2691 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2693 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2694 ===========================
2699 Fix error handling in python bindings
2701 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2702 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2703 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2704 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2706 Quote MML tags in replies
2708 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2709 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2710 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2711 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2712 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2713 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2714 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2715 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2717 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2718 =========================
2720 Command-Line Interface
2721 ----------------------
2725 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2726 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2727 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2728 importing new messages into the database.
2730 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2732 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2733 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2734 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2739 Automatic tag query optimization
2741 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2742 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2743 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2745 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2747 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2748 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2749 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2754 Reduction of memory leaks
2756 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2757 and fixed in this release.
2764 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2765 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2766 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2769 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2771 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2772 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2773 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2776 Improvements in saved search management
2778 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2779 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2780 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2782 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2784 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2785 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2786 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2788 New face for crypto parts headers
2790 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2791 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2792 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2795 Use space as default thousands separator
2797 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2798 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2799 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2801 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2802 buttonized id: links
2804 New function notmuch-show-advance
2806 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2807 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2808 be bound to SPC with:
2810 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2812 Various performance improvements
2817 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2818 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2821 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2822 ===========================
2827 Fix crash in python bindings
2829 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2830 for some, but not all users.
2832 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2833 ===========================
2838 Fix `--help` argument
2840 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2841 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2842 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2844 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2845 =========================
2847 New build and testing features
2848 ------------------------------
2850 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2851 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2852 prerequisites is improved.
2854 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2856 New command-line features
2857 -------------------------
2859 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2861 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2862 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2865 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2867 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2868 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2869 favour of using stdout.
2871 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2873 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2874 limit the number of results shown.
2876 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2878 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2879 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2882 New emacs UI features
2883 ---------------------
2885 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2887 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2888 starting with "tag:".
2890 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2892 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2893 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2895 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2897 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2899 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2901 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2902 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2907 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2909 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2911 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2912 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2913 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2914 requires a database rebuild:
2916 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2917 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2919 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2921 New collection of add-on tools
2922 ------------------------------
2924 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2925 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2926 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2929 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2931 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2932 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2933 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2935 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2936 ========================
2938 New, general features
2939 ---------------------
2941 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2943 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2944 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2945 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2946 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2947 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2954 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2955 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2957 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2961 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2962 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2963 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2966 Python bindings changes
2967 -----------------------
2969 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2971 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2972 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2973 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2974 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2975 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2976 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2978 Ruby bindings changes
2979 ---------------------
2981 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2982 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2983 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2984 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2989 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2991 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2992 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2994 Reply formatting cleanup
2995 ------------------------
2997 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2998 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3000 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3001 ========================
3003 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3005 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3006 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3007 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3008 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3011 Improved Build system portability
3013 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3014 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3015 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3017 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3019 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3021 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3023 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3024 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3025 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3027 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3028 ========================
3030 Vim interface improvements
3031 --------------------------
3033 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3035 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3036 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3037 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3038 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3039 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3041 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3043 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3044 * fix compose temp file name
3046 Python Bindings changes
3047 -----------------------
3049 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3051 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3052 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3054 Build-System improvements
3055 -------------------------
3057 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3059 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3062 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3063 ==========================
3068 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3070 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3071 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3073 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3074 =======================
3076 New, general features
3077 ---------------------
3079 Folder-based searching
3081 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3082 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3083 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3087 For example, one might use things such as:
3093 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3094 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3096 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3097 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3098 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3099 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3101 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3102 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3103 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3106 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3107 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3109 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3111 Support for PGP/MIME
3113 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3114 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3115 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3117 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3119 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3120 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3122 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3123 notmuch will receive these tags.
3125 New command-line features
3126 -------------------------
3128 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3130 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3131 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3133 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3135 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3136 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3137 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3139 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3141 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3142 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3143 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3144 which parts a signature part applies).
3146 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3148 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3149 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3150 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3151 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3152 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3155 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3157 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3158 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3159 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3160 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3161 by translating it internally to the new call.
3163 Performance improvements
3164 ------------------------
3166 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3168 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3169 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3170 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3172 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3173 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3175 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3177 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3178 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3179 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3181 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3182 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3183 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3184 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3186 Faster initial indexing
3188 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3189 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3190 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3192 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3194 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3195 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3196 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3197 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3199 New emacs-interface features
3200 ----------------------------
3202 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3204 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3205 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3206 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3207 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3208 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3209 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3211 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3213 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3214 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3215 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3216 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3218 User-selectable From address
3220 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3221 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3222 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3223 will prompt for the from address to use.
3225 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3226 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3227 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3229 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3230 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3231 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3234 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3236 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3237 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3239 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3241 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3243 ----- Original Message -----
3245 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3246 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3247 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3248 citations work much like conventional citations.
3250 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3252 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3253 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3254 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3255 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3256 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3258 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3259 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3261 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3263 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3264 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3265 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3267 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3269 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3270 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3271 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3272 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3273 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3275 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3277 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3280 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3282 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3284 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3286 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3289 Vim interface improvements
3290 --------------------------
3292 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3294 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3295 * Implementing archive in show view
3296 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3297 * Add delete commands
3300 Bindings improvements
3301 ---------------------
3303 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3305 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3306 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3308 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3310 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3314 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3315 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3316 `list(Messages)` works now
3317 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3319 These allow, for example:
3321 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3323 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3325 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3331 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3333 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3336 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3338 New build-system features
3339 -------------------------
3341 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3343 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3344 the configure script from some other directory:
3351 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3353 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3354 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3355 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3356 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3357 manual invocation of configure.
3359 New test-suite feature
3360 ----------------------
3362 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3364 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3365 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3366 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3367 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3368 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3371 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3373 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3374 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3375 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3376 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3377 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3378 are updated to take advantage of this.
3380 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3382 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3383 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3384 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3385 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3391 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3393 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3394 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3395 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3397 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3399 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3401 to:user@elsewhere.com
3403 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3405 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3407 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3409 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3410 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3411 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3414 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3415 from the Received headers in some cases
3417 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3418 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3420 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3422 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3424 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3426 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3427 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3428 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3430 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3431 -------------------------
3433 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3435 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3436 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3437 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3439 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3441 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3442 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3443 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3446 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3448 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3449 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3450 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3451 fixed to avoid this bug.
3453 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3455 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3456 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3458 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3459 ========================
3461 New, general features
3462 ---------------------
3464 Maildir-flag synchronization
3466 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3467 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3476 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3478 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3479 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3480 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3481 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3483 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3484 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3485 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3486 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3489 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3491 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3492 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3493 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3495 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3496 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3498 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3499 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3501 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3502 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3503 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3505 New library features
3506 --------------------
3508 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3510 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3511 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3512 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3513 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3515 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3516 message with the new function:
3518 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3520 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3521 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3522 over all available filenames for a given message.
3524 New command-line features
3525 -------------------------
3527 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3529 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3530 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3531 access to the mail store itself.
3533 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3534 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3535 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3536 name of a script containing:
3538 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3540 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3541 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3547 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3549 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3551 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3553 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3554 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3555 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3556 now produces nothing).
3558 Emacs interface improvements
3559 ----------------------------
3561 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3563 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3565 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3567 Display current thread subject in a header line
3569 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3571 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3573 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3574 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3575 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3576 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3577 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3578 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3579 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3581 Vim interface improvements
3582 --------------------------
3584 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3586 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3587 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3593 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3595 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3596 ========================
3598 New command-line features
3599 -------------------------
3601 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3603 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3604 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3605 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3607 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3608 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3609 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3610 scripts. For example:
3612 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3613 <operations-on> "$file"
3616 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3618 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3619 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3620 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3621 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3622 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3623 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3625 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3627 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3628 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3629 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3630 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3632 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3634 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3635 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3636 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3637 default rather than Bcc.
3639 New library features
3640 --------------------
3642 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3644 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3645 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3650 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3652 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3653 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3654 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3655 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3656 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3657 notmuch customize interface.
3659 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3661 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3662 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3663 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3664 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3666 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3668 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3669 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3670 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3671 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3673 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3675 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3676 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3677 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3678 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3679 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3680 notmuch customize interface.
3682 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3684 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3685 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3686 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3687 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3688 notmuch customize interface.
3690 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3692 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3693 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3694 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3695 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3698 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3700 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3701 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3702 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3705 New build-system features
3706 -------------------------
3708 Various portability fixes have been applied
3710 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3711 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3712 more portable than ever before.
3714 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3716 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3717 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3718 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3720 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3721 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3722 automatically run ldconfig.
3724 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3725 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3726 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3728 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3729 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3730 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3731 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3733 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3735 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3736 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3737 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3738 used in the resulting Makefile.
3740 New test-suite features
3741 -----------------------
3743 New modularization of test suite
3745 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3746 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3747 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3748 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3749 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3750 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3751 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3752 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3754 New testing of emacs interface
3756 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3757 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3758 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3759 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3760 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3761 database via the FCC setting.
3766 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3768 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3769 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3770 persistent error of the form:
3772 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3774 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3775 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3777 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3779 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3780 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3781 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3783 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3785 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3786 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3787 parsing the notmuch results).
3789 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3791 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3794 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3795 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3796 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3801 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3803 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3804 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3805 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3806 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3807 the emacs interface.
3809 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3811 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3812 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3813 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3815 Python-binding fixes
3816 --------------------
3818 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3820 Debian-specific fixes
3821 ---------------------
3823 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3825 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3826 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3827 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3830 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3831 ==========================
3836 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3838 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3839 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3840 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3841 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3843 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3845 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3846 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3847 want notmuch to crash.
3852 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3854 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3855 directory does not exist
3860 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3862 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3863 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3865 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3866 ========================
3868 New command-line features
3869 -------------------------
3871 User-configurable tags for new messages
3873 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3874 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3875 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3876 to specify this value.
3878 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3880 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3881 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3882 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3884 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3886 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3887 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3889 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3891 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3892 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3893 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3894 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3895 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3898 Indication of author names that match a search
3900 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3901 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3902 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3903 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3904 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3905 messages in the thread are listed first.
3907 New: Python bindings
3908 --------------------
3910 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3911 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3912 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3913 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3915 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3916 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3917 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3920 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3921 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3922 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3924 Emacs interface improvements
3925 ----------------------------
3927 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3929 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3930 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3931 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3932 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3933 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3934 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3935 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3936 but without any of the disadvantages).
3938 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3939 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3940 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3943 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3944 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3945 instead running something like:
3947 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3949 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3950 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3951 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3954 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3956 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3957 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3958 tweaked by the user.
3960 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3961 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3962 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3965 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3966 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3967 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3970 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3972 This support currently relies on an external program,
3973 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3974 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3975 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3976 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3977 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3980 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3981 notmuch) is available via:
3983 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3985 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3986 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3987 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3989 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3991 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3992 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3993 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3994 making this automatic in a future release.
3996 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3998 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3999 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4000 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4001 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4002 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4003 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4006 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4008 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4009 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4010 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4012 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4014 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4015 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4016 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4018 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4019 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4020 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4021 other representation.
4023 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4024 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4027 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4029 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4030 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4031 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4033 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4034 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4035 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4037 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4039 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4040 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4041 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4042 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4043 to display the search result.
4045 More flexible handling of header visibility
4047 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4048 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4049 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4050 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4051 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4052 with the 'h' keybinding.
4054 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4055 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4056 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4058 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4060 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4062 Customizable formatting of search results
4064 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4065 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4066 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4068 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4070 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4072 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4077 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4079 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4080 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4081 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4082 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4088 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4090 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4091 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4093 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4095 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4096 accept are now all accepted.
4101 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4103 Better display of output from failed tests
4105 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4106 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4108 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4109 ========================
4111 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4112 detailed release notes this time!
4114 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4115 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4117 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4118 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4119 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4120 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4127 Better guessing of From: header
4129 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4130 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4131 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4132 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4133 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4136 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4138 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4139 guaranteed to match all messages.
4141 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4143 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4144 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4145 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4146 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4147 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4150 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4153 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4154 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4155 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4156 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4161 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4163 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4164 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4165 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4166 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4168 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4170 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4172 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4173 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4174 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4176 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4178 Previously, the user might see:
4180 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4184 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4186 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4187 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4188 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4189 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4191 Emacs client features
4192 ---------------------
4194 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4196 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4197 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4198 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4199 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4200 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4202 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4205 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4206 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4207 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4208 search with the '*' binding.
4210 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4212 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4213 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4216 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4218 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4219 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4220 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4222 Build-system features
4223 ---------------------
4225 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4227 Add support to configure for many standard options
4229 We include actual support for:
4231 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4233 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4235 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4236 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4238 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4239 separate "make install-emacs"
4241 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4243 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4244 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4245 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4247 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4250 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4251 ========================
4253 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4255 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4256 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4258 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4259 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4260 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4261 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4262 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4263 tags from messages in a thread.
4270 indent-tabs-mode: nil