1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
10 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
12 Limited support for S/MIME messages
14 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
15 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
16 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
19 Command Line Interface
20 ----------------------
22 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
24 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
29 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
34 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
36 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
37 parts are now included in replies.
39 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
40 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
41 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
42 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
44 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
46 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
48 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
50 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
51 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
52 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
53 forwards only the current message.
55 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
57 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
58 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
59 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
60 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
61 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
62 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
63 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
64 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
67 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
68 longer generate empty buffers
70 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
71 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
72 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
73 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
74 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
76 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
78 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
81 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
83 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
89 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
90 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
91 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
97 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
98 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
99 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
100 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
101 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
102 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
104 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
105 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
106 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
107 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
108 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
109 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
111 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
112 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
114 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
115 =========================
120 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
123 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
125 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
126 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
127 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
129 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
130 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
132 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
133 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
134 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
136 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
138 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
139 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
140 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
141 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
142 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
143 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
148 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
149 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
152 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
155 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
157 Command Line Interface
158 ----------------------
160 Database revision tracking
162 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
163 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
164 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
165 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
167 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
169 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
170 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
171 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
172 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
173 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
174 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
175 manual page for further information.
180 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
182 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
183 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
185 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
187 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
188 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
189 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
191 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
193 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
195 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
196 customization as well.
198 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
200 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
202 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
204 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
206 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
207 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
208 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
209 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
211 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
213 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
214 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
215 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
216 this variable to 10000.
221 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
222 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
224 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
226 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
227 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
228 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
229 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
230 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
231 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
232 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
233 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
234 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
237 Database revision tracking
239 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
240 query parser and the new function
241 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
243 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
247 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
248 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
249 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
250 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
255 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
257 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
258 ===========================
263 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
265 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
266 ===========================
271 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
273 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
274 =========================
276 Command-Line Interface
277 ----------------------
279 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
281 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
282 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
283 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
285 Path to gpg is now configurable
287 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
288 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
293 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
295 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
300 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
305 Support messages without Message-IDs.
310 Undeprecate single message mboxes
312 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
313 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
315 New error logging facility
317 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
318 output formerly printed to stderr.
320 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
322 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
324 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
326 Fix for rounding of seconds
331 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
333 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
334 docmumentation has been removed.
336 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
338 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
339 some material from the relicensed wiki.
344 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
345 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
346 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
351 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
352 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
353 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
354 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
355 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
356 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
359 git checkout config origin/config
361 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
363 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
364 =========================
369 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
370 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
371 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
372 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
373 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
374 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
375 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
377 Command-Line Interface
378 ----------------------
380 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
382 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
383 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
384 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
385 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
386 script callers should still check the return value.
388 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
390 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
391 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
392 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
393 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
394 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
395 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
396 and returning success even if indexing fails).
398 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
400 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
401 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
402 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
404 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
406 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
407 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
408 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
409 currently unmaintained.
411 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
413 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
414 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
415 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
416 have at least `N` files associated with them.
418 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
420 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
421 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
422 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
423 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
424 count of duplicate addresses.
429 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
431 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
432 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
433 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
436 Improved handling of the unread tag
438 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
439 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
440 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
441 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
442 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
443 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
444 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
446 Expanded default saved search settings
448 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
449 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
451 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
453 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
454 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
455 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
457 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
459 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
460 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
461 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
462 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
463 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
464 the variable for details.
469 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
471 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
472 Representing these independently of the database version number will
473 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
474 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
476 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
478 Previously, library users were required to call
479 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
480 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
481 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
482 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
483 too out of date for that API.
485 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
487 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
488 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
489 atomic section will be aborted.
491 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
492 `notmuch_database_destroy`
494 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
496 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
497 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
498 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
499 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
500 messages into the same thread.
505 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
506 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
507 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
508 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
509 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
510 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
515 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
516 from the config file. Use something like:
520 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
521 "footer": "</body></html>",
530 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
535 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
536 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
537 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
539 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
540 ===========================
545 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
547 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
549 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
551 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
552 structure for signatures changed slightly.
554 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
556 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
559 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
560 ===========================
562 This is a bug fix and portability release.
567 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
569 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
571 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
573 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
575 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
581 Use --quick when starting emacs
583 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
585 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
587 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
589 Command-Line Interface
590 ----------------------
592 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
593 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
598 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
600 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
601 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
603 Fix for phrase indexing
605 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
606 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
607 will affect only newly indexed messages.
612 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
614 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
615 unintentionally removed.
617 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
618 =========================
623 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
624 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
625 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
626 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
627 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
628 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
629 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
630 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
631 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
637 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
639 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
640 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
641 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
642 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
643 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
644 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
645 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
646 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
648 There is a new `path:` search prefix
650 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
651 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
652 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
653 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
656 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
658 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
659 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
660 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
661 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
662 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
663 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
664 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
669 Notmuch database upgrade
671 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
672 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
673 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
674 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
675 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
676 released version of Notmuch before now.
678 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
680 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
681 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
682 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
683 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
685 Message header parsing changes
687 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
688 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
689 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
690 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
691 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
692 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
694 Command-Line Interface
695 ----------------------
697 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
699 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
701 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
703 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
705 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
707 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
708 user does not want it.
710 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
712 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
713 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
714 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
715 support formatted output.
717 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
719 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
720 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
721 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
729 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
730 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
731 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
732 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
733 `~/.emacs` with these.
735 Changed format for saved searches
737 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
738 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
739 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
740 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
743 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
744 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
745 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
746 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
748 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
749 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
750 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
752 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
753 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
754 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
755 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
756 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
758 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
760 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
761 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
762 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
764 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
766 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
767 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
768 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
769 message had been unread).
771 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
772 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
773 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
774 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
776 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
777 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
778 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
780 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
781 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
782 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
783 to tags already present.
787 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
788 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
789 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
790 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
791 these differ from each other.
792 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
794 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
796 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
797 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
798 for these Emacs versions.
800 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
802 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
803 newlines before calling notmuch count.
805 Bug fixes for sender identities
807 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
808 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
809 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
811 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
813 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
814 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
815 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
816 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
818 Reply pushes mark before signature
820 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
821 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
822 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
824 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
826 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
827 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
833 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
834 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
836 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
837 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
838 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
839 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
841 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
842 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
843 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
844 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
845 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
847 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
849 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
850 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
852 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
853 =========================
855 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
856 ---------------------------------------
858 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
859 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
860 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
861 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
862 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
863 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
864 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
868 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
869 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
871 Command-Line Interface
872 ----------------------
874 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
876 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
877 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
878 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
879 print for each message.
881 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
882 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
883 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
884 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
886 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
888 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
889 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
890 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
892 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
894 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
895 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
896 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
897 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
899 `notmuch compact` command
901 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
902 functionality through a more convenient interface than
903 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
904 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
905 move the compacted database into place.
910 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
912 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
913 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
914 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
915 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
916 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
917 and multiple threads.
921 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
923 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
924 search, show and tree mode itself)
926 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
929 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
930 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
932 Customising `notmuch-tree`
934 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
935 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
936 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
937 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
938 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
939 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
940 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
942 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
944 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
945 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
946 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
947 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
948 thread when the search was performed.
950 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
952 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
953 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
954 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
956 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
958 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
959 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
962 Built-in help improvements
964 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
965 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
966 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
968 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
970 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
971 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
972 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
974 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
976 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
977 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
979 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
981 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
982 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
983 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
984 to move some of them to the common keymap.
986 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
988 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
989 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
990 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
991 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
993 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
995 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
996 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
997 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
999 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1001 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1002 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1003 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1005 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1007 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1008 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1009 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1010 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1011 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1013 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1015 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1016 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1017 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1018 the body part of the message.
1023 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1024 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1025 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1027 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1028 =========================
1030 Command-Line Interface
1031 ----------------------
1033 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1035 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1036 folder and notmuch index.
1038 `notmuch count --batch` option
1040 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1041 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1043 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1045 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1046 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1047 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1050 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1052 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1053 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1054 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1055 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1056 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1059 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1061 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1062 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1064 Top level option to specify configuration file
1066 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1067 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1069 Bash command-line completion
1071 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1072 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1073 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1074 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1075 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1076 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1077 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1078 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1079 bash-completion package.
1081 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1086 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1088 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1089 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1090 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1091 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1092 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1093 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1094 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1095 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1097 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1099 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1100 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1101 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1103 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1105 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1106 previous thread in the search results.
1108 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1110 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1111 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1113 Faster search and show
1115 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1116 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1117 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1118 threads should show faster.
1122 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1123 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1124 in question was now removed from this release.
1129 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1130 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1135 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1137 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1138 ===========================
1143 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1145 Internal test framework changes
1146 -------------------------------
1148 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1149 being unimplemented.
1151 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1152 ===========================
1154 Internal test framework changes
1155 -------------------------------
1157 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1158 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1160 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1161 =========================
1166 Date range search support
1168 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1169 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1170 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1171 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1172 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1175 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1177 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1178 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1179 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1180 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1181 but may be removed in a future release.
1183 Command-Line Interface
1184 ----------------------
1186 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1188 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1189 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1191 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1193 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1194 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1195 officially deprecated.
1197 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1199 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1200 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1201 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1203 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1205 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1206 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1209 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1210 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1211 dump/restore format.
1213 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1215 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1216 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1217 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1219 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1221 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1222 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1223 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1225 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1227 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1228 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1229 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1230 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1235 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1237 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1238 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1239 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1240 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1242 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1244 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1245 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1246 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1247 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1248 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1249 the behavior of this, see
1250 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1251 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1253 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1254 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1255 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1257 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1259 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1260 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1263 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1265 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1266 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1267 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1268 simply displayed in place of the message.
1270 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1272 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1273 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1275 Improved text/calendar content handling
1277 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1278 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1279 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1280 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1282 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1284 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1285 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1286 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1287 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1289 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1291 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1292 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1293 for HTML email containing images.
1295 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1297 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1299 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1301 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1304 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1306 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1307 the point where it was.
1309 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1311 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1312 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1313 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1314 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1315 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1317 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1319 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1320 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1321 thread instead of the message id.
1323 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1324 -----------------------------
1326 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1327 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1328 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1329 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1330 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1331 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1332 further details and installation.
1337 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1339 Internal test framework changes
1340 -------------------------------
1342 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1344 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1345 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1346 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1347 can result in buggy behavior.
1349 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1350 =========================
1355 Maildir tag synchronization
1357 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1358 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1359 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1360 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1361 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1362 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1365 Command-Line Interface
1366 ----------------------
1368 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1369 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1370 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1371 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1372 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1378 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1380 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1382 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1383 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1384 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1386 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1388 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1389 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1390 span multiple lines.
1392 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1394 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1395 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1396 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1397 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1398 inside the result or message.
1400 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1402 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1403 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1405 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1406 user-specified formatting
1408 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1409 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1410 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1411 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1412 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1414 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1415 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1417 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1418 ===========================
1423 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1424 compilation error for this contrib package.
1426 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1427 ===========================
1432 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1434 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1435 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1436 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1437 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1439 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1440 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1443 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1444 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1445 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1446 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1449 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1451 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1454 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1455 =========================
1457 Command-Line Interface
1458 ----------------------
1462 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1463 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1464 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1465 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1467 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1468 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1469 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1470 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1474 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1475 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1477 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1478 tag in your query, for example:
1480 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1482 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1483 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1485 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1486 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1488 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1490 Raw show format changes
1492 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1493 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1494 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1495 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1496 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1497 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1498 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1499 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1501 Listing configuration items
1503 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1509 Changes to tagging interface
1511 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1512 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1513 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1514 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1515 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1516 for more information.
1518 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1519 may need to update in custom configurations.
1521 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1523 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1524 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1525 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1526 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1529 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1530 -----------------------------
1532 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1533 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1534 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1535 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1536 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1537 contrib/ from now on.
1542 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1543 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1545 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1546 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1548 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1549 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1550 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1552 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1553 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1555 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1556 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1557 returning the new database object or directory object.
1564 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1565 compatible with go 1.
1567 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1568 =========================
1570 Command-Line Interface
1571 ----------------------
1575 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1576 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1577 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1578 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1580 Mail store folder/file ignore
1582 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1583 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1584 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1586 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1587 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1589 Unified help and manual pages
1591 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1592 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1595 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1597 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1598 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1606 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1607 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1608 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1609 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1611 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1613 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1614 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1616 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1619 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1620 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1621 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1623 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1625 should be changed to:
1627 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1629 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1631 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1632 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1634 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1636 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1637 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1638 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1639 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1640 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1641 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1645 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1646 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1647 of Mailing List Archives.
1649 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1651 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1652 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1655 Show view archiving key binding changes
1657 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1658 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1659 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1660 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1661 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1664 Support text/calendar MIME type
1666 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1669 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1671 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1672 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1673 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1674 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1676 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1678 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1679 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1680 messages blue by default in the search view.
1684 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1685 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1692 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1695 Python bindings changes
1696 -----------------------
1698 Python 3.2 compatibility
1700 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1702 Added missing unicode conversions
1704 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1705 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1706 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1711 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1713 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1714 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1715 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1716 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1717 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1719 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1720 ===========================
1725 Fix error handling in python bindings
1727 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1728 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1729 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1730 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1732 Quote MML tags in replies
1734 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1735 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1736 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1737 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1738 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1739 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1740 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1741 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1743 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1744 =========================
1746 Command-Line Interface
1747 ----------------------
1751 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1752 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1753 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1754 importing new messages into the database.
1756 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1758 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1759 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1760 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1765 Automatic tag query optimization
1767 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1768 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1769 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1771 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1773 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1774 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1775 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1780 Reduction of memory leaks
1782 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1783 and fixed in this release.
1790 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1791 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1792 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1795 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1797 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1798 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1799 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1802 Improvements in saved search management
1804 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1805 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1806 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1808 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1810 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1811 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1812 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1814 New face for crypto parts headers
1816 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1817 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1818 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1821 Use space as default thousands separator
1823 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1824 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1825 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1827 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1828 buttonized id: links
1830 New function notmuch-show-advance
1832 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1833 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1834 be bound to SPC with:
1836 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1838 Various performance improvements
1843 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1844 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1847 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1848 ===========================
1853 Fix crash in python bindings
1855 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1856 for some, but not all users.
1858 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1859 ===========================
1864 Fix `--help` argument
1866 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1867 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1868 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1870 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1871 =========================
1873 New build and testing features
1874 ------------------------------
1876 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1877 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1878 prerequisites is improved.
1880 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1882 New command-line features
1883 -------------------------
1885 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1887 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1888 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1891 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1893 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1894 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1895 favour of using stdout.
1897 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1899 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1900 limit the number of results shown.
1902 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1904 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1905 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1908 New emacs UI features
1909 ---------------------
1911 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1913 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1914 starting with "tag:".
1916 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1918 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1919 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1921 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1923 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1925 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1927 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1928 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1933 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1935 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1937 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1938 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1939 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1940 requires a database rebuild:
1942 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1943 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1945 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1947 New collection of add-on tools
1948 ------------------------------
1950 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1951 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1952 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1955 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1957 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1958 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1959 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1961 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1962 ========================
1964 New, general features
1965 ---------------------
1967 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1969 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1970 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1971 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1972 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1973 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1980 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1981 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1983 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1987 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1988 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1989 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1992 Python bindings changes
1993 -----------------------
1995 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1997 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1998 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1999 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2000 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2001 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2002 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2004 Ruby bindings changes
2005 ---------------------
2007 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2008 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2009 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2010 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2015 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2017 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2018 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2020 Reply formatting cleanup
2021 ------------------------
2023 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2024 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2026 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2027 ========================
2029 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2031 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2032 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2033 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2034 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2037 Improved Build system portability
2039 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2040 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2041 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2043 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2045 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2047 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2049 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2050 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2051 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2053 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2054 ========================
2056 Vim interface improvements
2057 --------------------------
2059 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2061 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2062 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2063 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2064 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2065 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2067 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2069 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2070 * fix compose temp file name
2072 Python Bindings changes
2073 -----------------------
2075 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2077 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2078 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2080 Build-System improvements
2081 -------------------------
2083 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2085 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2088 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2089 ==========================
2094 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2096 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2097 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2099 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2100 =======================
2102 New, general features
2103 ---------------------
2105 Folder-based searching
2107 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2108 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2109 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2113 For example, one might use things such as:
2119 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2120 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2122 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2123 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2124 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2125 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2127 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2128 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2129 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2132 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2133 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2135 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2137 Support for PGP/MIME
2139 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2140 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2141 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2143 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2145 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2146 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2148 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2149 notmuch will receive these tags.
2151 New command-line features
2152 -------------------------
2154 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2156 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2157 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2159 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2161 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2162 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2163 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2165 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2167 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2168 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2169 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2170 which parts a signature part applies).
2172 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2174 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2175 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2176 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2177 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2178 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2181 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2183 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2184 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2185 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2186 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2187 by translating it internally to the new call.
2189 Performance improvements
2190 ------------------------
2192 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2194 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2195 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2196 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2198 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2199 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2201 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2203 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2204 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2205 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2207 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2208 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2209 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2210 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2212 Faster initial indexing
2214 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2215 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2216 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2218 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2220 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2221 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2222 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2223 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2225 New emacs-interface features
2226 ----------------------------
2228 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2230 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2231 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2232 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2233 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2234 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2235 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2237 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2239 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2240 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2241 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2242 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2244 User-selectable From address
2246 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2247 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2248 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2249 will prompt for the from address to use.
2251 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2252 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2253 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2255 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2256 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2257 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2260 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2262 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2263 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2265 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2267 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2269 ----- Original Message -----
2271 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2272 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2273 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2274 citations work much like conventional citations.
2276 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2278 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2279 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2280 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2281 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2282 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2284 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2285 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2287 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2289 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2290 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2291 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2293 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2295 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2296 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2297 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2298 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2299 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2301 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2303 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2306 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2308 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2310 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2312 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2315 Vim interface improvements
2316 --------------------------
2318 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2320 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2321 * Implementing archive in show view
2322 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2323 * Add delete commands
2326 Bindings improvements
2327 ---------------------
2329 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2331 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2332 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2334 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2336 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2340 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2341 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2342 `list(Messages)` works now
2343 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2345 These allow, for example:
2347 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2349 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2351 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2357 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2359 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2362 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2364 New build-system features
2365 -------------------------
2367 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2369 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2370 the configure script from some other directory:
2377 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2379 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2380 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2381 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2382 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2383 manual invocation of configure.
2385 New test-suite feature
2386 ----------------------
2388 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2390 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2391 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2392 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2393 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2394 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2397 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2399 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2400 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2401 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2402 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2403 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2404 are updated to take advantage of this.
2406 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2408 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2409 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2410 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2411 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2417 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2419 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2420 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2421 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2423 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2425 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2427 to:user@elsewhere.com
2429 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2431 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2433 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2435 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2436 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2437 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2440 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2441 from the Received headers in some cases
2443 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2444 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2446 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2448 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2450 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2452 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2453 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2454 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2456 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2457 -------------------------
2459 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2461 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2462 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2463 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2465 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2467 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2468 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2469 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2472 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2474 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2475 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2476 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2477 fixed to avoid this bug.
2479 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2481 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2482 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2484 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2485 ========================
2487 New, general features
2488 ---------------------
2490 Maildir-flag synchronization
2492 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2493 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2502 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2504 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2505 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2506 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2507 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2509 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2510 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2511 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2512 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2515 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2517 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2518 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2519 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2521 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2522 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2524 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2525 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2527 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2528 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2529 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2531 New library features
2532 --------------------
2534 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2536 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2537 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2538 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2539 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2541 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2542 message with the new function:
2544 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2546 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2547 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2548 over all available filenames for a given message.
2550 New command-line features
2551 -------------------------
2553 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2555 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2556 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2557 access to the mail store itself.
2559 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2560 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2561 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2562 name of a script containing:
2564 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2566 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2567 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2573 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2575 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2577 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2579 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2580 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2581 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2582 now produces nothing).
2584 Emacs interface improvements
2585 ----------------------------
2587 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2589 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2591 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2593 Display current thread subject in a header line
2595 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2597 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2599 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2600 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2601 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2602 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2603 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2604 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2605 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2607 Vim interface improvements
2608 --------------------------
2610 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2612 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2613 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2619 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2621 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2622 ========================
2624 New command-line features
2625 -------------------------
2627 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2629 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2630 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2631 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2633 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2634 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2635 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2636 scripts. For example:
2638 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2639 <operations-on> "$file"
2642 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2644 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2645 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2646 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2647 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2648 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2649 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2651 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2653 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2654 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2655 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2656 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2658 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2660 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2661 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2662 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2663 default rather than Bcc.
2665 New library features
2666 --------------------
2668 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2670 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2671 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2676 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2678 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2679 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2680 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2681 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2682 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2683 notmuch customize interface.
2685 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2687 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2688 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2689 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2690 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2692 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2694 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2695 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2696 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2697 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2699 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2701 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2702 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2703 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2704 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2705 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2706 notmuch customize interface.
2708 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2710 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2711 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2712 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2713 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2714 notmuch customize interface.
2716 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2718 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2719 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2720 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2721 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2724 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2726 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2727 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2728 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2731 New build-system features
2732 -------------------------
2734 Various portability fixes have been applied
2736 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2737 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2738 more portable than ever before.
2740 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2742 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2743 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2744 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2746 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2747 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2748 automatically run ldconfig.
2750 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2751 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2752 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2754 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2755 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2756 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2757 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2759 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2761 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2762 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2763 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2764 used in the resulting Makefile.
2766 New test-suite features
2767 -----------------------
2769 New modularization of test suite
2771 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2772 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2773 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2774 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2775 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2776 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2777 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2778 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2780 New testing of emacs interface
2782 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2783 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2784 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2785 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2786 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2787 database via the FCC setting.
2792 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2794 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2795 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2796 persistent error of the form:
2798 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2800 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2801 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2803 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2805 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2806 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2807 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2809 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2811 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2812 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2813 parsing the notmuch results).
2815 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2817 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2820 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2821 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2822 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2827 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2829 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2830 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2831 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2832 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2833 the emacs interface.
2835 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2837 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2838 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2839 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2841 Python-binding fixes
2842 --------------------
2844 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2846 Debian-specific fixes
2847 ---------------------
2849 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2851 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2852 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2853 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2856 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2857 ==========================
2862 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2864 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2865 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2866 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2867 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2869 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2871 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2872 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2873 want notmuch to crash.
2878 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2880 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2881 directory does not exist
2886 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2888 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2889 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2891 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2892 ========================
2894 New command-line features
2895 -------------------------
2897 User-configurable tags for new messages
2899 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2900 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2901 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2902 to specify this value.
2904 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2906 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2907 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2908 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2910 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2912 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2913 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2915 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2917 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2918 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2919 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2920 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2921 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2924 Indication of author names that match a search
2926 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2927 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2928 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2929 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2930 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2931 messages in the thread are listed first.
2933 New: Python bindings
2934 --------------------
2936 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2937 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2938 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2939 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2941 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2942 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2943 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2946 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2947 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2948 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2950 Emacs interface improvements
2951 ----------------------------
2953 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2955 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2956 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2957 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2958 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2959 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2960 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2961 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2962 but without any of the disadvantages).
2964 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2965 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2966 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2969 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2970 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2971 instead running something like:
2973 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2975 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2976 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2977 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2980 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2982 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2983 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2984 tweaked by the user.
2986 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2987 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2988 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2991 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2992 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2993 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2996 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2998 This support currently relies on an external program,
2999 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3000 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3001 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3002 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3003 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3006 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3007 notmuch) is available via:
3009 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3011 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3012 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3013 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3015 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3017 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3018 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3019 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3020 making this automatic in a future release.
3022 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3024 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3025 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3026 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3027 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3028 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3029 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3032 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3034 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3035 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3036 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3038 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3040 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3041 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3042 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3044 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3045 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3046 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3047 other representation.
3049 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3050 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3053 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3055 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3056 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3057 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3059 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3060 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3061 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3063 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3065 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3066 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3067 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3068 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3069 to display the search result.
3071 More flexible handling of header visibility
3073 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3074 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3075 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3076 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3077 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3078 with the 'h' keybinding.
3080 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3081 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3082 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3084 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3086 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3088 Customizable formatting of search results
3090 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3091 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3092 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3094 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3096 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3098 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3103 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3105 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3106 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3107 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3108 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3114 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3116 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3117 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3119 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3121 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3122 accept are now all accepted.
3127 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3129 Better display of output from failed tests
3131 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3132 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3134 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3135 ========================
3137 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3138 detailed release notes this time!
3140 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3141 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3143 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3144 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3145 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3146 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3153 Better guessing of From: header
3155 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3156 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3157 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3158 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3159 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3162 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3164 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3165 guaranteed to match all messages.
3167 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3169 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3170 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3171 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3172 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3173 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3176 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3179 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3180 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3181 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3182 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3187 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3189 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3190 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3191 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3192 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3194 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3196 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3198 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3199 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3200 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3202 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3204 Previously, the user might see:
3206 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3210 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3212 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3213 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3214 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3215 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3217 Emacs client features
3218 ---------------------
3220 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3222 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3223 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3224 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3225 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3226 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3228 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3231 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3232 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3233 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3234 search with the '*' binding.
3236 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3238 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3239 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3242 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3244 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3245 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3246 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3248 Build-system features
3249 ---------------------
3251 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3253 Add support to configure for many standard options
3255 We include actual support for:
3257 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3259 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3261 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3262 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3264 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3265 separate "make install-emacs"
3267 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3269 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3270 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3271 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3273 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3276 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3277 ========================
3279 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3281 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3282 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3284 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3285 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3286 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3287 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3288 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3289 tags from messages in a thread.
3296 indent-tabs-mode: nil