1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
8 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
11 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
12 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
13 the set of headers to be indexed.
15 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
18 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
19 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
20 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
23 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
24 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
25 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
27 Command Line Interface
28 ----------------------
30 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
33 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
35 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
36 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
37 more details about what is included there. This status includes
38 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
43 Optionally check for missing attachements in outgoing messages (see
44 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
46 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
48 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
50 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
52 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
54 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
57 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
59 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
60 and may be removed in a future release.
62 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
68 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
70 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
71 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
76 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
77 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
83 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
84 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
85 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
87 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
88 ===========================
90 Command line interface
91 ----------------------
93 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
94 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
96 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
97 ===========================
102 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
103 by message properties.
108 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
110 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
111 ===========================
116 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
121 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
122 now needed to build this documentation.
124 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
125 ===========================
130 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
131 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
133 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
134 =========================
141 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
142 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
143 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
144 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
145 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
148 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
150 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
151 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
152 correct encoding for such messages.
154 Command Line Interface
155 ----------------------
157 Support relative database paths
159 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
160 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
161 to $HOME of the invoking user.
166 Improve stderr handling
168 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
169 needed on e.g. macOS.
171 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
173 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
178 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
179 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
185 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
186 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
192 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
193 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
196 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
197 =========================
202 Add support for thread:{} queries
204 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
205 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
206 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
208 Command Line Interface
209 ----------------------
211 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
213 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
215 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
217 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
218 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
219 does not have to be available during message receipt.
224 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
230 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
231 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
233 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
234 ===========================
239 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
241 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
242 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
243 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
245 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
247 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
248 related abort in `notmuch show`.
250 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
251 ===========================
256 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
257 better late than never.
260 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
261 =========================
263 Command Line Interface
264 ----------------------
266 Support for re-indexing existing messages
268 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
269 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
270 change the way specific messages are indexed.
272 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
273 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
274 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
276 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
278 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
280 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
282 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
283 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
284 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
285 the setting of `new.tags`.
287 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
289 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
291 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
293 This inserts into the top level folder.
295 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
297 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
299 New option --output=address for notmuch address
301 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
303 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
305 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
306 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
307 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
309 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
314 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
316 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
317 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
318 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
319 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
320 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
321 config set index.decrypt true".
323 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
324 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
325 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
326 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
327 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
328 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
329 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
330 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
332 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
333 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
334 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
335 this feature without considering the security of your index.
340 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
342 Use make-process when available
344 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
345 notmuch command without using temporary files.
350 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
352 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
353 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
354 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
355 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
357 New functions to count files
359 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
360 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
362 New function to remove properties
364 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
365 drop all properties with a common pattern:
366 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
368 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
370 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
371 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
372 possibility of NULL was not documented.
374 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
376 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
377 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
378 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
379 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
380 operator may decide to change from message to message.
387 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
388 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
389 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
395 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
397 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
398 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
400 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
402 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
404 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
406 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
411 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
412 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
414 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
415 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
416 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
417 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
418 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
419 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
424 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
426 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
427 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
428 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
429 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
431 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
432 ===========================
437 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
438 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
441 Command Line Interface
442 ----------------------
444 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
445 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
448 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
449 ===========================
451 Command Line Interface
452 ----------------------
454 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
455 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
460 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
463 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
464 ===========================
469 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
472 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
473 =========================
478 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
480 Skip HTML tags when indexing
482 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
484 Command Line Interface
485 ----------------------
487 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
489 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
494 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
496 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
497 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
500 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
505 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
507 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
508 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
510 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
512 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
513 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
516 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
518 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
520 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
522 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
523 ===========================
525 Command Line Interface
526 ----------------------
528 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
533 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
535 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
536 ===========================
541 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
543 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
544 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
547 Command Line Interface
548 ----------------------
550 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
552 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
554 Fix bug in dump header
556 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
557 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
558 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
563 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
565 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
566 =========================
571 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
573 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
576 Command Line Interface
577 ----------------------
579 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
581 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
582 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
583 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
585 New default output format to 3
587 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
588 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
589 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
590 default format changes.
595 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
597 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
598 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
599 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
600 or tree view to resume.
602 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
603 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
604 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
607 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
608 they were when you postponed in the final message.
612 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
613 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
614 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
615 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
616 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
620 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
621 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
622 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
623 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
624 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
625 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
629 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
630 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
632 Stop display of `application/*` parts
634 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
635 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
636 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
637 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
638 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
639 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
640 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
641 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
644 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
646 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
647 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
648 only tagged the current thread.)
650 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
652 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
653 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
654 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
656 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
658 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
659 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
660 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
661 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
662 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
663 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
664 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
666 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
668 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
669 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
670 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
675 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
677 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
680 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
682 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
685 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
686 ===========================
691 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
693 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
694 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
695 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
698 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
699 ===========================
701 Command Line Interface
702 ----------------------
704 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
709 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
711 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
712 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
713 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
715 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
716 ===========================
721 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
722 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
724 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
725 ===========================
727 Command Line Interface
728 ----------------------
730 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
732 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
733 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
734 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
739 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
741 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
742 ===========================
744 Command Line Interface
745 ----------------------
747 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
752 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
754 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
755 ===========================
760 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
762 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
763 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
764 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
766 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
768 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
770 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
771 ===========================
776 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
778 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
783 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
785 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
786 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
787 the original colours.
789 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
790 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
792 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
794 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
795 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
796 bug, and hence the test.
798 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
799 =========================
801 General (Xapian 1.4+)
802 ---------------------
804 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
806 Support for single argument date: queries
808 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
810 Support for blocking opens
812 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
813 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
815 Support for named queries
817 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
818 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
819 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
826 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
827 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
828 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
829 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
831 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
833 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
838 Support for compile time options
840 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
841 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
844 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
846 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
847 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
848 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
849 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
850 scripts to ignore it.
855 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
857 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
858 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
859 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
861 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
862 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
863 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
864 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
865 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
866 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
867 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
869 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
870 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
873 Make internal address completion customizable
875 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
876 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
877 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
878 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
881 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
883 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
884 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
885 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
886 completion for the current buffer.
888 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
889 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
890 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
894 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
895 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
896 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
897 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
898 will be added instead.
900 Face customization is easier
902 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
903 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
904 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
905 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
907 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
912 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
917 Go bindings moved to contrib
919 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
921 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
923 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
924 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
926 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
928 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
929 ===========================
936 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
937 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
939 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
941 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
943 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
944 ===========================
949 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
951 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
956 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
961 Use `env` to locate perl.
966 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
968 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
970 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
972 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
974 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
975 =========================
982 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
983 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
985 Limited support for S/MIME messages
987 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
988 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
989 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
994 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
995 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
996 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
998 Command Line Interface
999 ----------------------
1001 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1003 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1008 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1013 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1015 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1016 parts are now included in replies.
1018 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1019 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1020 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1021 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1023 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1025 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1027 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1029 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1030 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1031 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1032 forwards only the current message.
1034 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1036 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1037 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1038 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1039 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1040 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1041 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1042 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1043 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1046 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1047 longer generate empty buffers
1049 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1050 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1051 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1052 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1053 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1055 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1057 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1060 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1062 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1065 Address completion improvements
1067 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1068 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1069 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1070 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1071 interactive address completion.
1073 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1075 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1076 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1077 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1082 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1083 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1084 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1090 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1091 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1092 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1093 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1094 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1095 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1097 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1098 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1099 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1100 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1101 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1102 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1104 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1105 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1107 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1108 =========================
1113 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1116 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1118 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1119 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1120 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1122 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1123 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1125 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1126 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1127 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1129 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1131 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1132 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1133 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1134 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1135 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1136 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1141 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1142 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1145 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1146 option to configure.
1148 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1150 Command Line Interface
1151 ----------------------
1153 Database revision tracking
1155 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1156 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1157 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1158 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1160 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1162 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1163 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1164 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1165 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1166 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1167 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1168 manual page for further information.
1173 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1175 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1176 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1178 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1180 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1181 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1182 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1184 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1186 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1188 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1189 customization as well.
1191 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1193 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1195 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1197 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1199 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1200 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1201 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1202 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1204 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1206 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1207 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1208 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1209 this variable to 10000.
1214 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1215 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1217 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1219 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1220 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1221 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1222 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1223 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1224 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1225 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1226 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1227 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1230 Database revision tracking
1232 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1233 query parser and the new function
1234 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1236 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1238 Deprecated functions
1240 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1241 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1242 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1243 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1248 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1250 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1251 ===========================
1256 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1258 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1259 ===========================
1264 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1266 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1267 =========================
1269 Command-Line Interface
1270 ----------------------
1272 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1274 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1275 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1276 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1278 Path to gpg is now configurable
1280 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1281 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1286 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1288 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1293 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1298 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1303 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1305 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1306 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1308 New error logging facility
1310 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1311 output formerly printed to stderr.
1313 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1315 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1317 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1319 Fix for rounding of seconds
1324 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1326 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1327 documentation has been removed.
1329 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1331 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1332 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1337 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1338 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1339 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1344 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1345 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1346 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1347 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1348 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1349 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1352 git checkout config origin/config
1354 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1356 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1357 =========================
1362 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1363 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1364 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1365 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1366 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1367 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1368 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1370 Command-Line Interface
1371 ----------------------
1373 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1375 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1376 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1377 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1378 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1379 script callers should still check the return value.
1381 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1383 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1384 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1385 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1386 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1387 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1388 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1389 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1391 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1393 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1394 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1395 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1397 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1399 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1400 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1401 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1402 currently unmaintained.
1404 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1406 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1407 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1408 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1409 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1411 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1413 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1414 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1415 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1416 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1417 count of duplicate addresses.
1422 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1424 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1425 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1426 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1429 Improved handling of the unread tag
1431 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1432 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1433 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1434 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1435 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1436 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1437 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1439 Expanded default saved search settings
1441 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1442 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1444 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1446 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1447 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1448 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1450 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1452 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1453 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1454 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1455 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1456 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1457 the variable for details.
1462 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1464 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1465 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1466 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1467 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1469 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1471 Previously, library users were required to call
1472 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1473 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1474 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1475 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1476 too out of date for that API.
1478 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1480 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1481 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1482 atomic section will be aborted.
1484 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1485 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1487 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1489 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1490 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1491 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1492 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1493 messages into the same thread.
1498 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1499 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1500 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1501 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1502 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1503 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1508 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1509 from the config file. Use something like:
1513 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1514 "footer": "</body></html>",
1523 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1528 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1529 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1530 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1532 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1533 ===========================
1538 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1540 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1542 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1544 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1545 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1547 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1549 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1552 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1553 ===========================
1555 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1560 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1562 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1564 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1566 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1568 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1574 Use --quick when starting emacs
1576 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1578 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1580 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1582 Command-Line Interface
1583 ----------------------
1585 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1586 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1591 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1593 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1594 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1596 Fix for phrase indexing
1598 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1599 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1600 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1605 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1607 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1608 unintentionally removed.
1610 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1611 =========================
1616 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1617 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1618 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1619 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1620 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1621 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1622 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1623 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1624 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1630 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1632 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1633 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1634 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1635 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1636 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1637 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1638 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1639 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1641 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1643 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1644 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1645 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1646 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1649 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1651 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1652 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1653 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1654 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1655 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1656 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1657 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1662 Notmuch database upgrade
1664 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1665 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1666 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1667 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1668 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1669 released version of Notmuch before now.
1671 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1673 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1674 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1675 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1676 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1678 Message header parsing changes
1680 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1681 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1682 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1683 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1684 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1685 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1687 Command-Line Interface
1688 ----------------------
1690 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1692 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1694 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1696 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1698 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1700 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1701 user does not want it.
1703 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1705 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1706 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1707 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1708 support formatted output.
1710 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1712 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1713 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1714 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1722 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1723 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1724 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1725 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1726 `~/.emacs` with these.
1728 Changed format for saved searches
1730 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1731 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1732 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1733 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1736 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1737 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1738 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1739 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1741 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1742 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1743 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1745 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1746 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1747 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1748 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1749 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1751 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1753 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1754 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1755 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1757 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1759 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1760 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1761 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1762 message had been unread).
1764 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1765 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1766 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1767 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1769 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1770 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1771 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1773 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1774 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1775 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1776 to tags already present.
1780 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1781 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1782 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1783 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1784 these differ from each other.
1785 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1787 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1789 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1790 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1791 for these Emacs versions.
1793 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1795 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1796 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1798 Bug fixes for sender identities
1800 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1801 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1802 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1804 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1806 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1807 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1808 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1809 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1811 Reply pushes mark before signature
1813 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1814 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1815 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1817 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1819 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1820 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1826 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1827 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1829 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1830 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1831 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1832 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1834 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1835 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1836 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1837 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1838 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1840 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1842 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1843 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1845 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1846 =========================
1848 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1849 ---------------------------------------
1851 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1852 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1853 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1854 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1855 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1856 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1857 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1861 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1862 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1864 Command-Line Interface
1865 ----------------------
1867 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1869 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1870 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1871 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1872 print for each message.
1874 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1875 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1876 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1877 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1879 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1881 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1882 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1883 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1885 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1887 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1888 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1889 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1890 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1892 `notmuch compact` command
1894 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1895 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1896 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1897 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1898 move the compacted database into place.
1903 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1905 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1906 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1907 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1908 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1909 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1910 and multiple threads.
1912 Using `notmuch-tree`
1914 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1916 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1917 search, show and tree mode itself)
1919 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1922 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1923 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1925 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1927 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1928 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1929 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1930 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1931 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1932 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1933 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1935 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1937 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1938 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1939 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1940 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1941 thread when the search was performed.
1943 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1945 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1946 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1947 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1949 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1951 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1952 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1955 Built-in help improvements
1957 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1958 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1959 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1961 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1963 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1964 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1965 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1967 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1969 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1970 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1972 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1974 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1975 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1976 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1977 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1979 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1981 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1982 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1983 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1984 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1986 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1988 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1989 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1990 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1992 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1994 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1995 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1996 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1998 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2000 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2001 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2002 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2003 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2004 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2006 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2008 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2009 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2010 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2011 the body part of the message.
2016 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2017 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2018 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2020 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2021 =========================
2023 Command-Line Interface
2024 ----------------------
2026 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2028 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2029 folder and notmuch index.
2031 `notmuch count --batch` option
2033 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2034 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2036 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2038 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2039 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2040 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2043 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2045 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2046 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2047 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2048 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2049 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2052 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2054 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2055 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2057 Top level option to specify configuration file
2059 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2060 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2062 Bash command-line completion
2064 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2065 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2066 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2067 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2068 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2069 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2070 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2071 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2072 bash-completion package.
2074 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2079 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2081 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2082 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2083 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2084 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2085 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2086 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2087 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2088 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2090 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2092 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2093 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2094 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2096 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2098 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2099 previous thread in the search results.
2101 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2103 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2104 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2106 Faster search and show
2108 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2109 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2110 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2111 threads should show faster.
2115 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2116 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2117 in question was now removed from this release.
2122 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2123 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2128 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2130 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2131 ===========================
2136 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2138 Internal test framework changes
2139 -------------------------------
2141 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2142 being unimplemented.
2144 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2145 ===========================
2147 Internal test framework changes
2148 -------------------------------
2150 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2151 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2153 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2154 =========================
2159 Date range search support
2161 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2162 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2163 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2164 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2165 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2168 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2170 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2171 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2172 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2173 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2174 but may be removed in a future release.
2176 Command-Line Interface
2177 ----------------------
2179 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2181 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2182 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2184 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2186 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2187 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2188 officially deprecated.
2190 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2192 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2193 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2194 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2196 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2198 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2199 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2202 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2203 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2204 dump/restore format.
2206 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2208 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2209 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2210 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2212 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2214 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2215 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2216 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2218 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2220 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2221 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2222 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2223 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2228 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2230 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2231 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2232 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2233 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2235 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2237 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2238 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2239 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2240 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2241 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2242 the behavior of this, see
2243 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2244 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2246 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2247 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2248 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2250 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2252 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2253 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2256 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2258 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2259 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2260 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2261 simply displayed in place of the message.
2263 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2265 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2266 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2268 Improved text/calendar content handling
2270 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2271 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2272 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2273 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2275 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2277 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2278 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2279 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2280 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2282 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2284 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2285 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2286 for HTML email containing images.
2288 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2290 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2292 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2294 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2297 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2299 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2300 the point where it was.
2302 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2304 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2305 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2306 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2307 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2308 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2310 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2312 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2313 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2314 thread instead of the message id.
2316 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2317 -----------------------------
2319 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2320 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2321 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2322 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2323 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2324 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2325 further details and installation.
2330 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2332 Internal test framework changes
2333 -------------------------------
2335 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2337 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2338 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2339 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2340 can result in buggy behavior.
2342 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2343 =========================
2348 Maildir tag synchronization
2350 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2351 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2352 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2353 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2354 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2355 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2358 Command-Line Interface
2359 ----------------------
2361 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2362 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2363 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2364 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2365 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2371 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2373 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2375 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2376 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2377 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2379 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2381 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2382 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2383 span multiple lines.
2385 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2387 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2388 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2389 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2390 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2391 inside the result or message.
2393 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2395 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2396 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2398 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2399 user-specified formatting
2401 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2402 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2403 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2404 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2405 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2407 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2408 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2410 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2411 ===========================
2416 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2417 compilation error for this contrib package.
2419 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2420 ===========================
2425 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2427 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2428 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2429 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2430 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2432 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2433 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2436 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2437 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2438 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2439 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2442 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2444 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2447 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2448 =========================
2450 Command-Line Interface
2451 ----------------------
2455 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2456 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2457 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2458 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2460 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2461 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2462 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2463 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2467 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2468 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2470 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2471 tag in your query, for example:
2473 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2475 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2476 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2478 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2479 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2481 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2483 Raw show format changes
2485 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2486 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2487 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2488 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2489 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2490 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2491 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2492 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2494 Listing configuration items
2496 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2502 Changes to tagging interface
2504 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2505 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2506 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2507 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2508 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2509 for more information.
2511 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2512 may need to update in custom configurations.
2514 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2516 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2517 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2518 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2519 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2522 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2523 -----------------------------
2525 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2526 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2527 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2528 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2529 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2530 contrib/ from now on.
2535 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2536 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2538 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2539 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2541 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2542 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2543 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2545 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2546 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2548 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2549 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2550 returning the new database object or directory object.
2557 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2558 compatible with go 1.
2560 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2561 =========================
2563 Command-Line Interface
2564 ----------------------
2568 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2569 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2570 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2571 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2573 Mail store folder/file ignore
2575 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2576 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2577 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2579 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2580 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2582 Unified help and manual pages
2584 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2585 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2588 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2590 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2591 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2599 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2600 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2601 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2602 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2604 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2606 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2607 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2609 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2612 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2613 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2614 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2616 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2618 should be changed to:
2620 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2622 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2624 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2625 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2627 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2629 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2630 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2631 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2632 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2633 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2634 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2638 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2639 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2640 of Mailing List Archives.
2642 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2644 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2645 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2648 Show view archiving key binding changes
2650 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2651 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2652 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2653 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2654 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2657 Support text/calendar MIME type
2659 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2662 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2664 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2665 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2666 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2667 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2669 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2671 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2672 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2673 messages blue by default in the search view.
2677 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2678 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2685 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2688 Python bindings changes
2689 -----------------------
2691 Python 3.2 compatibility
2693 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2695 Added missing unicode conversions
2697 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2698 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2699 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2704 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2706 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2707 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2708 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2709 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2710 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2712 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2713 ===========================
2718 Fix error handling in python bindings
2720 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2721 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2722 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2723 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2725 Quote MML tags in replies
2727 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2728 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2729 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2730 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2731 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2732 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2733 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2734 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2736 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2737 =========================
2739 Command-Line Interface
2740 ----------------------
2744 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2745 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2746 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2747 importing new messages into the database.
2749 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2751 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2752 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2753 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2758 Automatic tag query optimization
2760 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2761 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2762 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2764 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2766 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2767 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2768 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2773 Reduction of memory leaks
2775 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2776 and fixed in this release.
2783 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2784 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2785 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2788 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2790 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2791 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2792 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2795 Improvements in saved search management
2797 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2798 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2799 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2801 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2803 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2804 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2805 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2807 New face for crypto parts headers
2809 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2810 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2811 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2814 Use space as default thousands separator
2816 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2817 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2818 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2820 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2821 buttonized id: links
2823 New function notmuch-show-advance
2825 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2826 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2827 be bound to SPC with:
2829 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2831 Various performance improvements
2836 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2837 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2840 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2841 ===========================
2846 Fix crash in python bindings
2848 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2849 for some, but not all users.
2851 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2852 ===========================
2857 Fix `--help` argument
2859 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2860 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2861 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2863 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2864 =========================
2866 New build and testing features
2867 ------------------------------
2869 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2870 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2871 prerequisites is improved.
2873 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2875 New command-line features
2876 -------------------------
2878 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2880 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2881 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2884 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2886 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2887 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2888 favour of using stdout.
2890 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2892 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2893 limit the number of results shown.
2895 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2897 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2898 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2901 New emacs UI features
2902 ---------------------
2904 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2906 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2907 starting with "tag:".
2909 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2911 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2912 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2914 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2916 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2918 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2920 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2921 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2926 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2928 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2930 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2931 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2932 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2933 requires a database rebuild:
2935 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2936 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2938 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2940 New collection of add-on tools
2941 ------------------------------
2943 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2944 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2945 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2948 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2950 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2951 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2952 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2954 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2955 ========================
2957 New, general features
2958 ---------------------
2960 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2962 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2963 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2964 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2965 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2966 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2973 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2974 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2976 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2980 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2981 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2982 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2985 Python bindings changes
2986 -----------------------
2988 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2990 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2991 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2992 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2993 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2994 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2995 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2997 Ruby bindings changes
2998 ---------------------
3000 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3001 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3002 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3003 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3008 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3010 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3011 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3013 Reply formatting cleanup
3014 ------------------------
3016 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3017 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3019 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3020 ========================
3022 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3024 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3025 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3026 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3027 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3030 Improved Build system portability
3032 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3033 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3034 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3036 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3038 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3040 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3042 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3043 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3044 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3046 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3047 ========================
3049 Vim interface improvements
3050 --------------------------
3052 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3054 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3055 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3056 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3057 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3058 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3060 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3062 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3063 * fix compose temp file name
3065 Python Bindings changes
3066 -----------------------
3068 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3070 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3071 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3073 Build-System improvements
3074 -------------------------
3076 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3078 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3081 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3082 ==========================
3087 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3089 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3090 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3092 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3093 =======================
3095 New, general features
3096 ---------------------
3098 Folder-based searching
3100 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3101 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3102 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3106 For example, one might use things such as:
3112 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3113 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3115 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3116 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3117 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3118 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3120 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3121 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3122 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3125 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3126 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3128 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3130 Support for PGP/MIME
3132 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3133 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3134 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3136 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3138 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3139 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3141 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3142 notmuch will receive these tags.
3144 New command-line features
3145 -------------------------
3147 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3149 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3150 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3152 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3154 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3155 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3156 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3158 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3160 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3161 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3162 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3163 which parts a signature part applies).
3165 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3167 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3168 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3169 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3170 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3171 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3174 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3176 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3177 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3178 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3179 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3180 by translating it internally to the new call.
3182 Performance improvements
3183 ------------------------
3185 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3187 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3188 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3189 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3191 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3192 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3194 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3196 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3197 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3198 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3200 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3201 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3202 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3203 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3205 Faster initial indexing
3207 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3208 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3209 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3211 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3213 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3214 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3215 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3216 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3218 New emacs-interface features
3219 ----------------------------
3221 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3223 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3224 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3225 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3226 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3227 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3228 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3230 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3232 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3233 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3234 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3235 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3237 User-selectable From address
3239 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3240 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3241 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3242 will prompt for the from address to use.
3244 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3245 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3246 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3248 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3249 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3250 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3253 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3255 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3256 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3258 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3260 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3262 ----- Original Message -----
3264 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3265 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3266 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3267 citations work much like conventional citations.
3269 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3271 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3272 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3273 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3274 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3275 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3277 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3278 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3280 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3282 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3283 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3284 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3286 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3288 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3289 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3290 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3291 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3292 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3294 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3296 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3299 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3301 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3303 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3305 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3308 Vim interface improvements
3309 --------------------------
3311 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3313 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3314 * Implementing archive in show view
3315 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3316 * Add delete commands
3319 Bindings improvements
3320 ---------------------
3322 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3324 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3325 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3327 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3329 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3333 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3334 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3335 `list(Messages)` works now
3336 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3338 These allow, for example:
3340 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3342 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3344 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3350 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3352 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3355 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3357 New build-system features
3358 -------------------------
3360 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3362 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3363 the configure script from some other directory:
3370 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3372 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3373 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3374 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3375 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3376 manual invocation of configure.
3378 New test-suite feature
3379 ----------------------
3381 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3383 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3384 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3385 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3386 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3387 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3390 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3392 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3393 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3394 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3395 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3396 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3397 are updated to take advantage of this.
3399 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3401 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3402 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3403 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3404 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3410 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3412 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3413 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3414 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3416 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3418 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3420 to:user@elsewhere.com
3422 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3424 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3426 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3428 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3429 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3430 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3433 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3434 from the Received headers in some cases
3436 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3437 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3439 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3441 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3443 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3445 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3446 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3447 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3449 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3450 -------------------------
3452 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3454 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3455 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3456 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3458 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3460 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3461 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3462 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3465 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3467 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3468 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3469 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3470 fixed to avoid this bug.
3472 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3474 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3475 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3477 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3478 ========================
3480 New, general features
3481 ---------------------
3483 Maildir-flag synchronization
3485 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3486 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3495 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3497 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3498 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3499 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3500 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3502 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3503 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3504 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3505 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3508 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3510 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3511 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3512 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3514 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3515 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3517 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3518 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3520 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3521 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3522 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3524 New library features
3525 --------------------
3527 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3529 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3530 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3531 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3532 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3534 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3535 message with the new function:
3537 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3539 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3540 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3541 over all available filenames for a given message.
3543 New command-line features
3544 -------------------------
3546 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3548 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3549 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3550 access to the mail store itself.
3552 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3553 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3554 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3555 name of a script containing:
3557 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3559 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3560 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3566 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3568 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3570 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3572 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3573 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3574 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3575 now produces nothing).
3577 Emacs interface improvements
3578 ----------------------------
3580 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3582 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3584 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3586 Display current thread subject in a header line
3588 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3590 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3592 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3593 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3594 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3595 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3596 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3597 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3598 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3600 Vim interface improvements
3601 --------------------------
3603 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3605 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3606 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3612 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3614 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3615 ========================
3617 New command-line features
3618 -------------------------
3620 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3622 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3623 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3624 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3626 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3627 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3628 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3629 scripts. For example:
3631 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3632 <operations-on> "$file"
3635 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3637 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3638 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3639 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3640 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3641 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3642 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3644 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3646 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3647 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3648 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3649 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3651 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3653 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3654 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3655 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3656 default rather than Bcc.
3658 New library features
3659 --------------------
3661 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3663 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3664 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3669 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3671 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3672 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3673 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3674 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3675 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3676 notmuch customize interface.
3678 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3680 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3681 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3682 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3683 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3685 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3687 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3688 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3689 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3690 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3692 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3694 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3695 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3696 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3697 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3698 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3699 notmuch customize interface.
3701 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3703 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3704 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3705 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3706 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3707 notmuch customize interface.
3709 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3711 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3712 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3713 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3714 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3717 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3719 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3720 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3721 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3724 New build-system features
3725 -------------------------
3727 Various portability fixes have been applied
3729 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3730 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3731 more portable than ever before.
3733 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3735 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3736 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3737 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3739 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3740 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3741 automatically run ldconfig.
3743 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3744 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3745 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3747 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3748 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3749 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3750 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3752 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3754 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3755 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3756 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3757 used in the resulting Makefile.
3759 New test-suite features
3760 -----------------------
3762 New modularization of test suite
3764 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3765 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3766 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3767 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3768 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3769 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3770 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3771 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3773 New testing of emacs interface
3775 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3776 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3777 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3778 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3779 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3780 database via the FCC setting.
3785 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3787 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3788 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3789 persistent error of the form:
3791 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3793 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3794 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3796 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3798 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3799 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3800 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3802 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3804 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3805 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3806 parsing the notmuch results).
3808 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3810 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3813 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3814 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3815 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3820 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3822 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3823 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3824 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3825 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3826 the emacs interface.
3828 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3830 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3831 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3832 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3834 Python-binding fixes
3835 --------------------
3837 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3839 Debian-specific fixes
3840 ---------------------
3842 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3844 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3845 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3846 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3849 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3850 ==========================
3855 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3857 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3858 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3859 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3860 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3862 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3864 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3865 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3866 want notmuch to crash.
3871 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3873 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3874 directory does not exist
3879 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3881 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3882 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3884 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3885 ========================
3887 New command-line features
3888 -------------------------
3890 User-configurable tags for new messages
3892 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3893 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3894 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3895 to specify this value.
3897 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3899 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3900 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3901 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3903 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3905 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3906 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3908 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3910 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3911 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3912 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3913 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3914 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3917 Indication of author names that match a search
3919 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3920 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3921 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3922 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3923 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3924 messages in the thread are listed first.
3926 New: Python bindings
3927 --------------------
3929 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3930 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3931 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3932 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3934 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3935 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3936 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3939 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3940 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3941 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3943 Emacs interface improvements
3944 ----------------------------
3946 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3948 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3949 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3950 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3951 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3952 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3953 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3954 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3955 but without any of the disadvantages).
3957 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3958 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3959 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3962 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3963 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3964 instead running something like:
3966 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3968 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3969 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3970 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3973 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3975 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3976 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3977 tweaked by the user.
3979 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3980 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3981 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3984 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3985 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3986 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3989 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3991 This support currently relies on an external program,
3992 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3993 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3994 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3995 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3996 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3999 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4000 notmuch) is available via:
4002 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4004 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4005 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4006 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4008 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4010 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4011 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4012 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4013 making this automatic in a future release.
4015 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4017 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4018 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4019 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4020 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4021 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4022 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4025 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4027 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4028 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4029 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4031 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4033 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4034 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4035 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4037 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4038 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4039 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4040 other representation.
4042 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4043 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4046 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4048 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4049 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4050 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4052 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4053 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4054 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4056 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4058 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4059 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4060 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4061 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4062 to display the search result.
4064 More flexible handling of header visibility
4066 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4067 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4068 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4069 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4070 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4071 with the 'h' keybinding.
4073 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4074 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4075 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4077 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4079 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4081 Customizable formatting of search results
4083 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4084 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4085 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4087 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4089 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4091 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4096 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4098 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4099 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4100 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4101 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4107 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4109 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4110 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4112 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4114 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4115 accept are now all accepted.
4120 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4122 Better display of output from failed tests
4124 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4125 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4127 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4128 ========================
4130 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4131 detailed release notes this time!
4133 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4134 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4136 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4137 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4138 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4139 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4146 Better guessing of From: header
4148 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4149 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4150 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4151 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4152 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4155 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4157 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4158 guaranteed to match all messages.
4160 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4162 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4163 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4164 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4165 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4166 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4169 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4172 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4173 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4174 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4175 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4180 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4182 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4183 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4184 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4185 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4187 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4189 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4191 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4192 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4193 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4195 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4197 Previously, the user might see:
4199 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4203 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4205 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4206 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4207 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4208 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4210 Emacs client features
4211 ---------------------
4213 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4215 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4216 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4217 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4218 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4219 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4221 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4224 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4225 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4226 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4227 search with the '*' binding.
4229 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4231 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4232 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4235 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4237 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4238 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4239 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4241 Build-system features
4242 ---------------------
4244 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4246 Add support to configure for many standard options
4248 We include actual support for:
4250 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4252 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4254 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4255 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4257 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4258 separate "make install-emacs"
4260 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4262 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4263 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4264 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4266 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4269 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4270 ========================
4272 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4274 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4275 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4277 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4278 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4279 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4280 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4281 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4282 tags from messages in a thread.
4289 indent-tabs-mode: nil