1 Notmuch 0.32.1 (UNRELEASED)
2 ===========================
4 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
5 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
6 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
8 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
9 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
10 database in a pre-new hook.
12 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
13 =========================
18 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
19 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
20 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
21 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
22 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
23 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
24 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
25 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
26 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
27 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
28 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
33 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
34 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
36 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
37 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
38 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
39 - `notmuch_config_get`
41 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
42 now exposed (and generalized).
44 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
45 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
46 session has been fixed.
48 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
49 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
54 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
55 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
57 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
58 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
63 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
64 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
65 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
66 when prompting for senders.
68 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
69 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
72 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
74 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
76 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
77 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
78 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
79 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
80 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
81 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
82 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
84 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
85 ===========================
90 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
95 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
97 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
98 ===========================
103 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
108 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
113 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
115 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
116 ===========================
121 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
122 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
124 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
125 ===========================
130 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
135 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
136 with a C++ header for some compilers.
138 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
140 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
141 =========================
146 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
147 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
148 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
150 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
152 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
154 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
156 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
159 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
161 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
162 search, show and tree mode)
164 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
167 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
170 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
171 always be newest first.
176 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
177 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
178 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
184 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
185 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
186 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
187 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
189 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
190 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
191 non-status providing versions.
193 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
194 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
196 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
197 promised in the documentation.
202 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
203 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
204 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
209 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
210 development version).
215 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
220 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
222 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
223 =========================
228 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
229 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
230 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
233 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
239 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
240 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
241 notmuch-properties(7)).
246 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
247 has protected headers (see
248 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
249 notmuch-properties(7)).
254 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
256 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
257 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
263 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
266 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
267 ===========================
272 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
274 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
279 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
281 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
282 ===========================
287 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
288 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
290 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
291 ===========================
296 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
298 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
299 =========================
304 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
305 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
308 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
309 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
310 the set of headers to be indexed.
312 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
315 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
316 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
317 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
320 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
321 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
322 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
324 Command Line Interface
325 ----------------------
327 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
330 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
332 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
333 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
334 more details about what is included there. This status includes
335 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
340 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
341 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
343 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
345 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
347 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
349 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
351 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
354 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
356 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
357 and may be removed in a future release.
359 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
365 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
367 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
368 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
373 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
374 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
375 cryptography support.
380 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
381 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
382 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
384 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
385 ===========================
387 Command line interface
388 ----------------------
390 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
391 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
393 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
394 ===========================
399 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
400 by message properties.
405 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
407 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
408 ===========================
413 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
418 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
419 now needed to build this documentation.
421 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
422 ===========================
427 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
428 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
430 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
431 =========================
438 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
439 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
440 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
441 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
442 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
445 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
447 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
448 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
449 correct encoding for such messages.
451 Command Line Interface
452 ----------------------
454 Support relative database paths
456 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
457 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
458 to $HOME of the invoking user.
463 Improve stderr handling
465 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
466 needed on e.g. macOS.
468 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
470 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
475 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
476 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
482 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
483 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
489 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
490 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
493 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
494 =========================
499 Add support for thread:{} queries
501 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
502 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
503 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
505 Command Line Interface
506 ----------------------
508 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
510 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
512 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
514 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
515 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
516 does not have to be available during message receipt.
521 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
527 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
528 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
530 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
531 ===========================
536 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
538 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
539 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
540 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
542 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
544 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
545 related abort in `notmuch show`.
547 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
548 ===========================
553 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
554 better late than never.
557 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
558 =========================
560 Command Line Interface
561 ----------------------
563 Support for re-indexing existing messages
565 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
566 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
567 change the way specific messages are indexed.
569 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
570 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
571 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
573 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
575 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
577 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
579 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
580 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
581 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
582 the setting of `new.tags`.
584 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
586 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
588 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
590 This inserts into the top level folder.
592 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
594 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
596 New option --output=address for notmuch address
598 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
600 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
602 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
603 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
604 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
606 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
611 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
613 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
614 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
615 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
616 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
617 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
618 config set index.decrypt true".
620 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
621 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
622 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
623 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
624 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
625 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
626 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
627 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
629 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
630 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
631 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
632 this feature without considering the security of your index.
637 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
639 Use make-process when available
641 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
642 notmuch command without using temporary files.
647 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
649 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
650 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
651 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
652 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
654 New functions to count files
656 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
657 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
659 New function to remove properties
661 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
662 drop all properties with a common pattern:
663 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
665 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
667 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
668 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
669 possibility of NULL was not documented.
671 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
673 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
674 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
675 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
676 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
677 operator may decide to change from message to message.
684 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
685 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
686 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
692 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
694 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
695 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
697 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
699 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
701 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
703 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
708 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
709 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
711 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
712 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
713 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
714 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
715 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
716 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
721 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
723 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
724 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
725 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
726 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
728 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
729 ===========================
734 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
735 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
738 Command Line Interface
739 ----------------------
741 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
742 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
745 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
746 ===========================
748 Command Line Interface
749 ----------------------
751 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
752 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
757 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
760 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
761 ===========================
766 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
769 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
770 =========================
775 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
777 Skip HTML tags when indexing
779 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
781 Command Line Interface
782 ----------------------
784 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
786 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
791 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
793 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
794 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
797 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
802 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
804 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
805 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
807 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
809 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
810 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
813 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
815 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
817 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
819 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
820 ===========================
822 Command Line Interface
823 ----------------------
825 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
830 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
832 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
833 ===========================
838 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
840 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
841 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
844 Command Line Interface
845 ----------------------
847 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
849 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
851 Fix bug in dump header
853 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
854 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
855 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
860 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
862 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
863 =========================
868 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
870 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
873 Command Line Interface
874 ----------------------
876 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
878 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
879 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
880 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
882 New default output format to 3
884 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
885 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
886 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
887 default format changes.
892 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
894 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
895 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
896 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
897 or tree view to resume.
899 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
900 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
901 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
904 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
905 they were when you postponed in the final message.
909 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
910 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
911 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
912 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
913 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
917 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
918 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
919 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
920 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
921 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
922 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
926 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
927 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
929 Stop display of `application/*` parts
931 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
932 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
933 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
934 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
935 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
936 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
937 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
938 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
941 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
943 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
944 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
945 only tagged the current thread.)
947 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
949 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
950 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
951 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
953 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
955 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
956 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
957 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
958 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
959 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
960 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
961 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
963 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
965 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
966 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
967 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
972 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
974 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
977 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
979 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
982 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
983 ===========================
988 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
990 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
991 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
992 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
995 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
996 ===========================
998 Command Line Interface
999 ----------------------
1001 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1006 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1008 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1009 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1010 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1012 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1013 ===========================
1018 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1019 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1021 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1022 ===========================
1024 Command Line Interface
1025 ----------------------
1027 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1029 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1030 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1031 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1036 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1038 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1039 ===========================
1041 Command Line Interface
1042 ----------------------
1044 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1049 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1051 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1052 ===========================
1057 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1059 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1060 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1061 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1063 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1065 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1067 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1068 ===========================
1073 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1075 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1080 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1082 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1083 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1084 the original colours.
1086 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1087 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1089 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1091 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1092 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1093 bug, and hence the test.
1095 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1096 =========================
1098 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1099 ---------------------
1101 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1103 Support for single argument date: queries
1105 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1107 Support for blocking opens
1109 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1110 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1112 Support for named queries
1114 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1115 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1116 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1121 Message property API
1123 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1124 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1125 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1126 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1128 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1130 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1135 Support for compile time options
1137 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1138 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1141 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1143 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1144 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1145 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1146 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1147 scripts to ignore it.
1152 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1154 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1155 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1156 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1158 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1159 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1160 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1161 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1162 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1163 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1164 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1166 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1167 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1170 Make internal address completion customizable
1172 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1173 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1174 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1175 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1178 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1180 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1181 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1182 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1183 completion for the current buffer.
1185 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1186 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1187 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1191 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1192 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1193 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1194 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1195 will be added instead.
1197 Face customization is easier
1199 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1200 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1201 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1202 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1204 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1209 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1214 Go bindings moved to contrib
1216 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1218 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1220 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1221 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1223 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1225 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1226 ===========================
1233 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1234 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1236 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1238 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1240 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1241 ===========================
1246 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1248 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1253 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1258 Use `env` to locate perl.
1263 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1265 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1267 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1269 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1271 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1272 =========================
1279 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1280 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1282 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1284 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1285 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1286 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1291 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1292 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1293 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1295 Command Line Interface
1296 ----------------------
1298 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1300 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1305 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1310 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1312 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1313 parts are now included in replies.
1315 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1316 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1317 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1318 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1320 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1322 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1324 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1326 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1327 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1328 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1329 forwards only the current message.
1331 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1333 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1334 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1335 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1336 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1337 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1338 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1339 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1340 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1343 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1344 longer generate empty buffers
1346 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1347 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1348 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1349 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1350 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1352 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1354 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1357 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1359 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1362 Address completion improvements
1364 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1365 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1366 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1367 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1368 interactive address completion.
1370 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1372 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1373 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1374 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1379 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1380 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1381 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1387 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1388 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1389 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1390 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1391 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1392 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1394 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1395 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1396 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1397 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1398 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1399 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1401 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1402 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1404 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1405 =========================
1410 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1413 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1415 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1416 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1417 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1419 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1420 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1422 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1423 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1424 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1426 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1428 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1429 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1430 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1431 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1432 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1433 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1438 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1439 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1442 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1443 option to configure.
1445 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1447 Command Line Interface
1448 ----------------------
1450 Database revision tracking
1452 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1453 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1454 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1455 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1457 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1459 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1460 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1461 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1462 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1463 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1464 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1465 manual page for further information.
1470 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1472 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1473 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1475 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1477 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1478 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1479 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1481 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1483 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1485 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1486 customization as well.
1488 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1490 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1492 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1494 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1496 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1497 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1498 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1499 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1501 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1503 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1504 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1505 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1506 this variable to 10000.
1511 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1512 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1514 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1516 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1517 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1518 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1519 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1520 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1521 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1522 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1523 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1524 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1527 Database revision tracking
1529 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1530 query parser and the new function
1531 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1533 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1535 Deprecated functions
1537 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1538 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1539 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1540 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1545 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1547 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1548 ===========================
1553 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1555 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1556 ===========================
1561 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1563 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1564 =========================
1566 Command-Line Interface
1567 ----------------------
1569 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1571 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1572 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1573 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1575 Path to gpg is now configurable
1577 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1578 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1583 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1585 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1590 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1595 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1600 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1602 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1603 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1605 New error logging facility
1607 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1608 output formerly printed to stderr.
1610 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1612 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1614 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1616 Fix for rounding of seconds
1621 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1623 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1624 documentation has been removed.
1626 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1628 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1629 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1634 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1635 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1636 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1641 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1642 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1643 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1644 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1645 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1646 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1649 git checkout config origin/config
1651 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1653 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1654 =========================
1659 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1660 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1661 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1662 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1663 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1664 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1665 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1667 Command-Line Interface
1668 ----------------------
1670 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1672 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1673 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1674 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1675 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1676 script callers should still check the return value.
1678 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1680 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1681 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1682 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1683 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1684 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1685 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1686 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1688 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1690 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1691 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1692 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1694 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1696 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1697 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1698 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1699 currently unmaintained.
1701 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1703 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1704 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1705 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1706 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1708 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1710 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1711 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1712 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1713 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1714 count of duplicate addresses.
1719 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1721 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1722 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1723 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1726 Improved handling of the unread tag
1728 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1729 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1730 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1731 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1732 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1733 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1734 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1736 Expanded default saved search settings
1738 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1739 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1741 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1743 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1744 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1745 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1747 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1749 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1750 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1751 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1752 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1753 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1754 the variable for details.
1759 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1761 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1762 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1763 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1764 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1766 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1768 Previously, library users were required to call
1769 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1770 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1771 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1772 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1773 too out of date for that API.
1775 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1777 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1778 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1779 atomic section will be aborted.
1781 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1782 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1784 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1786 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1787 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1788 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1789 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1790 messages into the same thread.
1795 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1796 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1797 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1798 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1799 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1800 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1805 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1806 from the config file. Use something like:
1810 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1811 "footer": "</body></html>",
1820 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1825 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1826 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1827 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1829 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1830 ===========================
1835 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1837 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1839 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1841 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1842 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1844 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1846 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1849 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1850 ===========================
1852 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1857 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1859 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1861 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1863 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1865 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1871 Use --quick when starting emacs
1873 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1875 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1877 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1879 Command-Line Interface
1880 ----------------------
1882 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1883 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1888 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1890 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1891 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1893 Fix for phrase indexing
1895 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1896 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1897 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1902 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1904 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1905 unintentionally removed.
1907 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1908 =========================
1913 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1914 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1915 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1916 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1917 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1918 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1919 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1920 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1921 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1927 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1929 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1930 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1931 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1932 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1933 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1934 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1935 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1936 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1938 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1940 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1941 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1942 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1943 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1946 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1948 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1949 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1950 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1951 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1952 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1953 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1954 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1959 Notmuch database upgrade
1961 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1962 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1963 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1964 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1965 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1966 released version of Notmuch before now.
1968 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1970 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1971 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1972 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1973 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1975 Message header parsing changes
1977 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1978 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1979 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1980 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1981 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1982 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1984 Command-Line Interface
1985 ----------------------
1987 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1989 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1991 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1993 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1995 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1997 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1998 user does not want it.
2000 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2002 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2003 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2004 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2005 support formatted output.
2007 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2009 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2010 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2011 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2019 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2020 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2021 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2022 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2023 `~/.emacs` with these.
2025 Changed format for saved searches
2027 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2028 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2029 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2030 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2033 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2034 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2035 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2036 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2038 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2039 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2040 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2042 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2043 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2044 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2045 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2046 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2048 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2050 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2051 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2052 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2054 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2056 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2057 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2058 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2059 message had been unread).
2061 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2062 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2063 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2064 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2066 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2067 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2068 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2070 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2071 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2072 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2073 to tags already present.
2077 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2078 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2079 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2080 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2081 these differ from each other.
2082 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2084 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2086 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2087 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2088 for these Emacs versions.
2090 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2092 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2093 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2095 Bug fixes for sender identities
2097 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2098 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2099 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2101 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2103 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2104 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2105 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2106 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2108 Reply pushes mark before signature
2110 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2111 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2112 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2114 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2116 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2117 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2123 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2124 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2126 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2127 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2128 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2129 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2131 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2132 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2133 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2134 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2135 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2137 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2139 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2140 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2142 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2143 =========================
2145 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2146 ---------------------------------------
2148 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2149 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2150 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2151 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2152 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2153 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2154 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2158 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2159 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2161 Command-Line Interface
2162 ----------------------
2164 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2166 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2167 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2168 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2169 print for each message.
2171 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2172 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2173 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2174 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2176 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2178 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2179 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2180 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2182 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2184 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2185 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2186 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2187 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2189 `notmuch compact` command
2191 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2192 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2193 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2194 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2195 move the compacted database into place.
2200 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2202 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2203 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2204 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2205 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2206 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2207 and multiple threads.
2209 Using `notmuch-tree`
2211 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2213 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2214 search, show and tree mode itself)
2216 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2219 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2220 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2222 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2224 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2225 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2226 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2227 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2228 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2229 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2230 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2232 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2234 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2235 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2236 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2237 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2238 thread when the search was performed.
2240 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2242 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2243 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2244 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2246 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2248 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2249 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2252 Built-in help improvements
2254 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2255 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2256 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2258 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2260 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2261 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2262 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2264 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2266 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2267 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2269 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2271 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2272 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2273 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2274 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2276 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2278 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2279 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2280 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2281 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2283 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2285 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2286 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2287 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2289 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2291 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2292 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2293 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2295 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2297 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2298 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2299 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2300 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2301 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2303 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2305 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2306 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2307 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2308 the body part of the message.
2313 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2314 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2315 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2317 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2318 =========================
2320 Command-Line Interface
2321 ----------------------
2323 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2325 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2326 folder and notmuch index.
2328 `notmuch count --batch` option
2330 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2331 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2333 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2335 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2336 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2337 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2340 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2342 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2343 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2344 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2345 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2346 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2349 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2351 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2352 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2354 Top level option to specify configuration file
2356 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2357 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2359 Bash command-line completion
2361 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2362 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2363 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2364 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2365 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2366 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2367 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2368 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2369 bash-completion package.
2371 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2376 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2378 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2379 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2380 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2381 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2382 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2383 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2384 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2385 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2387 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2389 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2390 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2391 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2393 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2395 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2396 previous thread in the search results.
2398 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2400 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2401 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2403 Faster search and show
2405 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2406 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2407 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2408 threads should show faster.
2412 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2413 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2414 in question was now removed from this release.
2419 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2420 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2425 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2427 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2428 ===========================
2433 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2435 Internal test framework changes
2436 -------------------------------
2438 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2439 being unimplemented.
2441 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2442 ===========================
2444 Internal test framework changes
2445 -------------------------------
2447 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2448 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2450 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2451 =========================
2456 Date range search support
2458 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2459 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2460 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2461 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2462 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2465 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2467 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2468 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2469 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2470 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2471 but may be removed in a future release.
2473 Command-Line Interface
2474 ----------------------
2476 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2478 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2479 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2481 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2483 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2484 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2485 officially deprecated.
2487 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2489 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2490 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2491 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2493 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2495 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2496 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2499 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2500 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2501 dump/restore format.
2503 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2505 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2506 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2507 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2509 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2511 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2512 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2513 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2515 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2517 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2518 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2519 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2520 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2525 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2527 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2528 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2529 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2530 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2532 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2534 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2535 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2536 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2537 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2538 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2539 the behavior of this, see
2540 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2541 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2543 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2544 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2545 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2547 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2549 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2550 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2553 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2555 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2556 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2557 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2558 simply displayed in place of the message.
2560 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2562 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2563 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2565 Improved text/calendar content handling
2567 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2568 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2569 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2570 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2572 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2574 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2575 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2576 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2577 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2579 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2581 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2582 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2583 for HTML email containing images.
2585 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2587 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2589 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2591 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2594 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2596 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2597 the point where it was.
2599 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2601 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2602 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2603 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2604 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2605 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2607 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2609 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2610 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2611 thread instead of the message id.
2613 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2614 -----------------------------
2616 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2617 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2618 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2619 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2620 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2621 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2622 further details and installation.
2627 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2629 Internal test framework changes
2630 -------------------------------
2632 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2634 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2635 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2636 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2637 can result in buggy behavior.
2639 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2640 =========================
2645 Maildir tag synchronization
2647 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2648 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2649 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2650 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2651 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2652 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2655 Command-Line Interface
2656 ----------------------
2658 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2659 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2660 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2661 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2662 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2668 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2670 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2672 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2673 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2674 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2676 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2678 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2679 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2680 span multiple lines.
2682 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2684 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2685 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2686 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2687 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2688 inside the result or message.
2690 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2692 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2693 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2695 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2696 user-specified formatting
2698 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2699 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2700 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2701 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2702 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2704 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2705 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2707 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2708 ===========================
2713 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2714 compilation error for this contrib package.
2716 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2717 ===========================
2722 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2724 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2725 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2726 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2727 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2729 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2730 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2733 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2734 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2735 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2736 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2739 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2741 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2744 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2745 =========================
2747 Command-Line Interface
2748 ----------------------
2752 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2753 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2754 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2755 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2757 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2758 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2759 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2760 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2764 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2765 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2767 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2768 tag in your query, for example:
2770 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2772 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2773 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2775 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2776 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2778 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2780 Raw show format changes
2782 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2783 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2784 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2785 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2786 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2787 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2788 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2789 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2791 Listing configuration items
2793 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2799 Changes to tagging interface
2801 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2802 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2803 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2804 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2805 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2806 for more information.
2808 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2809 may need to update in custom configurations.
2811 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2813 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2814 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2815 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2816 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2819 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2820 -----------------------------
2822 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2823 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2824 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2825 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2826 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2827 contrib/ from now on.
2832 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2833 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2835 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2836 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2838 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2839 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2840 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2842 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2843 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2845 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2846 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2847 returning the new database object or directory object.
2854 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2855 compatible with go 1.
2857 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2858 =========================
2860 Command-Line Interface
2861 ----------------------
2865 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2866 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2867 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2868 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2870 Mail store folder/file ignore
2872 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2873 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2874 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2876 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2877 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2879 Unified help and manual pages
2881 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2882 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2885 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2887 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2888 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2896 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2897 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2898 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2899 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2901 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2903 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2904 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2906 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2909 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2910 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2911 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2913 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2915 should be changed to:
2917 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2919 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2921 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2922 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2924 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2926 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2927 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2928 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2929 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2930 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2931 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2935 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2936 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2937 of Mailing List Archives.
2939 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2941 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2942 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2945 Show view archiving key binding changes
2947 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2948 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2949 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2950 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2951 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2954 Support text/calendar MIME type
2956 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2959 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2961 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2962 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2963 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2964 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2966 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2968 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2969 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2970 messages blue by default in the search view.
2974 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2975 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2982 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2985 Python bindings changes
2986 -----------------------
2988 Python 3.2 compatibility
2990 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2992 Added missing unicode conversions
2994 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2995 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2996 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3001 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3003 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3004 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3005 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3006 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3007 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3009 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3010 ===========================
3015 Fix error handling in python bindings
3017 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3018 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3019 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3020 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3022 Quote MML tags in replies
3024 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3025 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3026 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3027 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3028 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3029 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3030 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3031 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3033 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3034 =========================
3036 Command-Line Interface
3037 ----------------------
3041 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3042 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3043 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3044 importing new messages into the database.
3046 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3048 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3049 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3050 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3055 Automatic tag query optimization
3057 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3058 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3059 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3061 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3063 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3064 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3065 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3070 Reduction of memory leaks
3072 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3073 and fixed in this release.
3080 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3081 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3082 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3085 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3087 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3088 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3089 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3092 Improvements in saved search management
3094 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3095 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3096 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3098 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3100 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3101 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3102 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3104 New face for crypto parts headers
3106 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3107 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3108 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3111 Use space as default thousands separator
3113 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3114 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3115 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3117 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3118 buttonized id: links
3120 New function notmuch-show-advance
3122 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3123 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3124 be bound to SPC with:
3126 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3128 Various performance improvements
3133 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3134 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3137 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3138 ===========================
3143 Fix crash in python bindings
3145 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3146 for some, but not all users.
3148 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3149 ===========================
3154 Fix `--help` argument
3156 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3157 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3158 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3160 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3161 =========================
3163 New build and testing features
3164 ------------------------------
3166 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3167 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3168 prerequisites is improved.
3170 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3172 New command-line features
3173 -------------------------
3175 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3177 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3178 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3181 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3183 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3184 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3185 favour of using stdout.
3187 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3189 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3190 limit the number of results shown.
3192 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3194 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3195 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3198 New emacs UI features
3199 ---------------------
3201 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3203 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3204 starting with "tag:".
3206 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3208 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3209 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3211 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3213 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3215 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3217 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3218 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3223 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3225 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3227 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3228 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3229 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3230 requires a database rebuild:
3232 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3233 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3235 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3237 New collection of add-on tools
3238 ------------------------------
3240 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3241 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3242 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3245 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3247 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3248 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3249 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3251 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3252 ========================
3254 New, general features
3255 ---------------------
3257 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3259 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3260 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3261 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3262 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3263 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3270 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3271 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3273 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3277 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3278 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3279 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3282 Python bindings changes
3283 -----------------------
3285 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3287 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3288 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3289 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3290 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3291 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3292 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3294 Ruby bindings changes
3295 ---------------------
3297 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3298 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3299 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3300 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3305 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3307 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3308 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3310 Reply formatting cleanup
3311 ------------------------
3313 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3314 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3316 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3317 ========================
3319 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3321 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3322 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3323 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3324 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3327 Improved Build system portability
3329 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3330 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3331 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3333 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3335 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3337 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3339 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3340 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3341 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3343 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3344 ========================
3346 Vim interface improvements
3347 --------------------------
3349 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3351 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3352 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3353 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3354 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3355 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3357 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3359 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3360 * fix compose temp file name
3362 Python Bindings changes
3363 -----------------------
3365 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3367 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3368 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3370 Build-System improvements
3371 -------------------------
3373 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3375 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3378 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3379 ==========================
3384 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3386 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3387 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3389 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3390 =======================
3392 New, general features
3393 ---------------------
3395 Folder-based searching
3397 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3398 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3399 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3403 For example, one might use things such as:
3409 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3410 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3412 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3413 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3414 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3415 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3417 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3418 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3419 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3422 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3423 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3425 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3427 Support for PGP/MIME
3429 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3430 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3431 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3433 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3435 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3436 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3438 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3439 notmuch will receive these tags.
3441 New command-line features
3442 -------------------------
3444 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3446 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3447 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3449 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3451 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3452 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3453 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3455 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3457 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3458 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3459 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3460 which parts a signature part applies).
3462 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3464 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3465 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3466 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3467 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3468 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3471 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3473 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3474 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3475 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3476 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3477 by translating it internally to the new call.
3479 Performance improvements
3480 ------------------------
3482 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3484 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3485 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3486 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3488 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3489 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3491 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3493 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3494 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3495 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3497 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3498 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3499 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3500 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3502 Faster initial indexing
3504 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3505 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3506 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3508 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3510 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3511 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3512 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3513 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3515 New emacs-interface features
3516 ----------------------------
3518 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3520 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3521 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3522 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3523 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3524 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3525 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3527 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3529 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3530 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3531 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3532 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3534 User-selectable From address
3536 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3537 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3538 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3539 will prompt for the from address to use.
3541 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3542 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3543 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3545 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3546 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3547 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3550 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3552 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3553 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3555 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3557 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3559 ----- Original Message -----
3561 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3562 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3563 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3564 citations work much like conventional citations.
3566 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3568 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3569 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3570 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3571 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3572 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3574 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3575 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3577 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3579 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3580 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3581 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3583 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3585 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3586 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3587 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3588 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3589 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3591 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3593 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3596 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3598 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3600 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3602 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3605 Vim interface improvements
3606 --------------------------
3608 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3610 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3611 * Implementing archive in show view
3612 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3613 * Add delete commands
3616 Bindings improvements
3617 ---------------------
3619 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3621 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3622 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3624 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3626 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3630 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3631 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3632 `list(Messages)` works now
3633 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3635 These allow, for example:
3637 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3639 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3641 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3647 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3649 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3652 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3654 New build-system features
3655 -------------------------
3657 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3659 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3660 the configure script from some other directory:
3667 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3669 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3670 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3671 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3672 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3673 manual invocation of configure.
3675 New test-suite feature
3676 ----------------------
3678 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3680 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3681 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3682 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3683 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3684 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3687 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3689 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3690 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3691 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3692 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3693 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3694 are updated to take advantage of this.
3696 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3698 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3699 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3700 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3701 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3707 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3709 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3710 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3711 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3713 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3715 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3717 to:user@elsewhere.com
3719 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3721 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3723 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3725 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3726 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3727 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3730 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3731 from the Received headers in some cases
3733 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3734 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3736 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3738 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3740 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3742 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3743 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3744 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3746 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3747 -------------------------
3749 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3751 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3752 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3753 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3755 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3757 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3758 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3759 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3762 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3764 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3765 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3766 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3767 fixed to avoid this bug.
3769 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3771 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3772 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3774 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3775 ========================
3777 New, general features
3778 ---------------------
3780 Maildir-flag synchronization
3782 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3783 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3792 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3794 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3795 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3796 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3797 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3799 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3800 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3801 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3802 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3805 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3807 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3808 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3809 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3811 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3812 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3814 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3815 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3817 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3818 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3819 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3821 New library features
3822 --------------------
3824 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3826 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3827 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3828 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3829 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3831 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3832 message with the new function:
3834 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3836 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3837 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3838 over all available filenames for a given message.
3840 New command-line features
3841 -------------------------
3843 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3845 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3846 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3847 access to the mail store itself.
3849 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3850 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3851 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3852 name of a script containing:
3854 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3856 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3857 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3863 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3865 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3867 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3869 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3870 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3871 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3872 now produces nothing).
3874 Emacs interface improvements
3875 ----------------------------
3877 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3879 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3881 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3883 Display current thread subject in a header line
3885 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3887 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3889 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3890 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3891 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3892 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3893 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3894 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3895 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3897 Vim interface improvements
3898 --------------------------
3900 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3902 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3903 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3909 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3911 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3912 ========================
3914 New command-line features
3915 -------------------------
3917 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3919 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3920 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3921 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3923 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3924 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3925 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3926 scripts. For example:
3928 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3929 <operations-on> "$file"
3932 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3934 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3935 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3936 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3937 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3938 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3939 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3941 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3943 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3944 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3945 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3946 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3948 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3950 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3951 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3952 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3953 default rather than Bcc.
3955 New library features
3956 --------------------
3958 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3960 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3961 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3966 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3968 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3969 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3970 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3971 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3972 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3973 notmuch customize interface.
3975 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3977 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3978 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3979 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3980 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3982 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3984 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3985 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3986 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3987 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3989 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3991 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3992 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3993 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3994 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3995 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3996 notmuch customize interface.
3998 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4000 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4001 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4002 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4003 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4004 notmuch customize interface.
4006 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4008 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4009 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4010 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4011 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4014 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4016 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4017 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4018 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4021 New build-system features
4022 -------------------------
4024 Various portability fixes have been applied
4026 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4027 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4028 more portable than ever before.
4030 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4032 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4033 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4034 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4036 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4037 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4038 automatically run ldconfig.
4040 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4041 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4042 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4044 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4045 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4046 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4047 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4049 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4051 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4052 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4053 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4054 used in the resulting Makefile.
4056 New test-suite features
4057 -----------------------
4059 New modularization of test suite
4061 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4062 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4063 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4064 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4065 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4066 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4067 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4068 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4070 New testing of emacs interface
4072 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4073 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4074 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4075 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4076 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4077 database via the FCC setting.
4082 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4084 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4085 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4086 persistent error of the form:
4088 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4090 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4091 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4093 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4095 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4096 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4097 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4099 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4101 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4102 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4103 parsing the notmuch results).
4105 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4107 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4110 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4111 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4112 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4117 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4119 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4120 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4121 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4122 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4123 the emacs interface.
4125 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4127 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4128 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4129 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4131 Python-binding fixes
4132 --------------------
4134 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4136 Debian-specific fixes
4137 ---------------------
4139 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4141 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4142 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4143 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4146 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4147 ==========================
4152 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4154 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4155 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4156 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4157 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4159 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4161 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4162 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4163 want notmuch to crash.
4168 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4170 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4171 directory does not exist
4176 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4178 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4179 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4181 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4182 ========================
4184 New command-line features
4185 -------------------------
4187 User-configurable tags for new messages
4189 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4190 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4191 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4192 to specify this value.
4194 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4196 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4197 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4198 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4200 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4202 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4203 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4205 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4207 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4208 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4209 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4210 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4211 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4214 Indication of author names that match a search
4216 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4217 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4218 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4219 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4220 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4221 messages in the thread are listed first.
4223 New: Python bindings
4224 --------------------
4226 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4227 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4228 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4229 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4231 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4232 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4233 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4236 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4237 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4238 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4240 Emacs interface improvements
4241 ----------------------------
4243 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4245 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4246 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4247 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4248 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4249 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4250 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4251 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4252 but without any of the disadvantages).
4254 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4255 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4256 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4259 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4260 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4261 instead running something like:
4263 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4265 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4266 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4267 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4270 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4272 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4273 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4274 tweaked by the user.
4276 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4277 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4278 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4281 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4282 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4283 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4286 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4288 This support currently relies on an external program,
4289 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4290 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4291 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4292 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4293 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4296 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4297 notmuch) is available via:
4299 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4301 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4302 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4303 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4305 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4307 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4308 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4309 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4310 making this automatic in a future release.
4312 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4314 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4315 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4316 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4317 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4318 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4319 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4322 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4324 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4325 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4326 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4328 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4330 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4331 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4332 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4334 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4335 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4336 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4337 other representation.
4339 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4340 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4343 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4345 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4346 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4347 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4349 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4350 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4351 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4353 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4355 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4356 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4357 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4358 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4359 to display the search result.
4361 More flexible handling of header visibility
4363 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4364 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4365 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4366 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4367 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4368 with the 'h' keybinding.
4370 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4371 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4372 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4374 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4376 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4378 Customizable formatting of search results
4380 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4381 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4382 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4384 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4386 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4388 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4393 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4395 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4396 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4397 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4398 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4404 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4406 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4407 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4409 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4411 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4412 accept are now all accepted.
4417 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4419 Better display of output from failed tests
4421 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4422 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4424 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4425 ========================
4427 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4428 detailed release notes this time!
4430 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4431 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4433 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4434 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4435 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4436 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4443 Better guessing of From: header
4445 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4446 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4447 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4448 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4449 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4452 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4454 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4455 guaranteed to match all messages.
4457 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4459 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4460 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4461 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4462 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4463 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4466 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4469 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4470 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4471 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4472 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4477 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4479 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4480 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4481 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4482 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4484 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4486 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4488 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4489 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4490 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4492 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4494 Previously, the user might see:
4496 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4500 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4502 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4503 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4504 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4505 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4507 Emacs client features
4508 ---------------------
4510 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4512 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4513 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4514 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4515 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4516 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4518 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4521 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4522 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4523 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4524 search with the '*' binding.
4526 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4528 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4529 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4532 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4534 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4535 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4536 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4538 Build-system features
4539 ---------------------
4541 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4543 Add support to configure for many standard options
4545 We include actual support for:
4547 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4549 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4551 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4552 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4554 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4555 separate "make install-emacs"
4557 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4559 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4560 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4561 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4563 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4566 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4567 ========================
4569 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4571 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4572 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4574 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4575 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4576 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4577 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4578 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4579 tags from messages in a thread.
4586 indent-tabs-mode: nil