1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Support for re-indexing existing messages
19 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
20 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
21 change the way specific messages are indexed.
23 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
24 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
25 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
27 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
29 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
31 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
33 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
34 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
35 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
36 the setting of `new.tags`.
41 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
43 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
44 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
45 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
46 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
47 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
48 config set index.decrypt true".
50 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
51 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
52 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
53 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
54 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
55 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
56 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
57 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
59 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
60 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
61 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
62 this feature without considering the security of your index.
67 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
69 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
70 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
71 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
72 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
74 New functions to count files
76 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
77 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
79 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
81 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
82 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
83 possibility of NULL was not documented.
88 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
90 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
91 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
93 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
95 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
97 Add python bindings for notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*
102 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
103 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
105 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
106 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
107 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
108 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
109 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
110 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
112 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
113 ===========================
118 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
119 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
122 Command Line Interface
123 ----------------------
125 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
126 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
129 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
130 ===========================
132 Command Line Interface
133 ----------------------
135 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
136 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
141 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
144 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
145 ===========================
150 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
153 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
154 =========================
159 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
161 Skip HTML tags when indexing
163 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
165 Command Line Interface
166 ----------------------
168 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
170 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
175 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
177 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
178 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
181 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
186 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
188 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
189 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
191 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
193 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
194 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
197 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
199 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
201 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
203 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
204 ===========================
206 Command Line Interface
207 ----------------------
209 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
214 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
216 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
217 ===========================
222 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
224 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
225 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
228 Command Line Interface
229 ----------------------
231 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
233 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
235 Fix bug in dump header
237 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
238 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
239 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
244 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
246 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
247 =========================
252 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
254 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
257 Command Line Interface
258 ----------------------
260 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
262 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
263 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
264 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
266 New default output format to 3
268 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
269 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
270 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
271 default format changes.
276 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
278 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
279 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
280 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
281 or tree view to resume.
283 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
284 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
285 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
288 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
289 they were when you postponed in the final message.
293 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
294 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
295 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
296 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
297 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
301 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
302 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
303 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
304 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
305 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
306 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
310 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
311 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
313 Stop display of `application/*` parts
315 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
316 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
317 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
318 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
319 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
320 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
321 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
322 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
325 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
327 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
328 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
329 only tagged the current thread.)
331 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
333 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
334 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
335 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
337 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
339 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
340 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
341 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
342 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
343 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
344 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
345 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
347 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
349 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
350 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
351 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
356 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
358 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
361 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
363 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
366 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
367 ===========================
372 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
374 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
375 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
376 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
379 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
380 ===========================
382 Command Line Interface
383 ----------------------
385 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
390 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
392 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
393 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
394 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
396 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
397 ===========================
402 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
403 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
405 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
406 ===========================
408 Command Line Interface
409 ----------------------
411 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
413 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
414 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
415 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
420 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
422 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
423 ===========================
425 Command Line Interface
426 ----------------------
428 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
433 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
435 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
436 ===========================
441 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
443 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
444 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
445 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
447 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
449 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
451 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
452 ===========================
457 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
459 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
464 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
466 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
467 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
468 the original colours.
470 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
471 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
473 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
475 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
476 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
477 bug, and hence the test.
479 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
480 =========================
482 General (Xapian 1.4+)
483 ---------------------
485 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
487 Support for single argument date: queries
489 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
491 Support for blocking opens
493 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
494 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
496 Support for named queries
498 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
499 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
500 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
507 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
508 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
509 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
510 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
512 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
514 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
519 Support for compile time options
521 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
522 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
525 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
527 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
528 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
529 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
530 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
531 scripts to ignore it.
536 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
538 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
539 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
540 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
542 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
543 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
544 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
545 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
546 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
547 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
548 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
550 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
551 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
554 Make internal address completion customizable
556 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
557 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
558 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
559 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
562 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
564 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
565 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
566 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
567 completion for the current buffer.
569 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
570 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
571 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
575 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
576 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
577 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
578 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
579 will be added instead.
581 Face customization is easier
583 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
584 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
585 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
586 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
588 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
593 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
598 Go bindings moved to contrib
600 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
602 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
604 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
605 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
607 The same issue occured with sort modes.
609 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
610 ===========================
617 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
618 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
620 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
622 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
624 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
625 ===========================
630 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
632 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
637 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
642 Use `env` to locate perl.
647 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
649 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
651 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
653 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
655 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
656 =========================
663 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
664 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
666 Limited support for S/MIME messages
668 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
669 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
670 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
675 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
676 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
677 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
679 Command Line Interface
680 ----------------------
682 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
684 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
689 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
694 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
696 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
697 parts are now included in replies.
699 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
700 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
701 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
702 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
704 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
706 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
708 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
710 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
711 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
712 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
713 forwards only the current message.
715 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
717 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
718 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
719 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
720 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
721 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
722 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
723 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
724 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
727 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
728 longer generate empty buffers
730 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
731 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
732 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
733 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
734 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
736 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
738 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
741 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
743 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
746 Address completion improvements
748 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
749 you previously configured one, customize the variable
750 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
751 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
752 interactive address completion.
754 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
756 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
757 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
758 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
763 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
764 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
765 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
771 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
772 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
773 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
774 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
775 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
776 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
778 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
779 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
780 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
781 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
782 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
783 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
785 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
786 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
788 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
789 =========================
794 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
797 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
799 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
800 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
801 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
803 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
804 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
806 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
807 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
808 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
810 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
812 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
813 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
814 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
815 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
816 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
817 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
822 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
823 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
826 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
829 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
831 Command Line Interface
832 ----------------------
834 Database revision tracking
836 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
837 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
838 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
839 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
841 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
843 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
844 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
845 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
846 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
847 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
848 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
849 manual page for further information.
854 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
856 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
857 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
859 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
861 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
862 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
863 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
865 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
867 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
869 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
870 customization as well.
872 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
874 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
876 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
878 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
880 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
881 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
882 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
883 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
885 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
887 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
888 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
889 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
890 this variable to 10000.
895 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
896 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
898 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
900 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
901 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
902 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
903 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
904 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
905 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
906 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
907 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
908 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
911 Database revision tracking
913 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
914 query parser and the new function
915 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
917 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
921 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
922 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
923 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
924 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
929 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
931 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
932 ===========================
937 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
939 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
940 ===========================
945 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
947 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
948 =========================
950 Command-Line Interface
951 ----------------------
953 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
955 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
956 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
957 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
959 Path to gpg is now configurable
961 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
962 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
967 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
969 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
974 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
979 Support messages without Message-IDs.
984 Undeprecate single message mboxes
986 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
987 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
989 New error logging facility
991 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
992 output formerly printed to stderr.
994 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
996 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
998 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1000 Fix for rounding of seconds
1005 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1007 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1008 docmumentation has been removed.
1010 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1012 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1013 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1018 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1019 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1020 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1025 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1026 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1027 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1028 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1029 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1030 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1033 git checkout config origin/config
1035 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1037 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1038 =========================
1043 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1044 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1045 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1046 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1047 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1048 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1049 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1051 Command-Line Interface
1052 ----------------------
1054 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1056 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1057 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1058 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1059 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1060 script callers should still check the return value.
1062 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1064 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1065 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1066 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1067 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1068 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1069 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1070 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1072 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1074 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1075 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1076 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1078 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1080 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1081 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1082 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1083 currently unmaintained.
1085 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1087 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1088 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1089 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1090 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1092 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1094 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1095 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1096 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1097 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1098 count of duplicate addresses.
1103 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1105 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1106 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1107 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1110 Improved handling of the unread tag
1112 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1113 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1114 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1115 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1116 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1117 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1118 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1120 Expanded default saved search settings
1122 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1123 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1125 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1127 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1128 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1129 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1131 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1133 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1134 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1135 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1136 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1137 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1138 the variable for details.
1143 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1145 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1146 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1147 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1148 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1150 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1152 Previously, library users were required to call
1153 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1154 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1155 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1156 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1157 too out of date for that API.
1159 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1161 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1162 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1163 atomic section will be aborted.
1165 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1166 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1168 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1170 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1171 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1172 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1173 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1174 messages into the same thread.
1179 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1180 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1181 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1182 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1183 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1184 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1189 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1190 from the config file. Use something like:
1194 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1195 "footer": "</body></html>",
1204 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1209 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1210 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1211 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1213 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1214 ===========================
1219 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1221 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1223 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1225 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1226 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1228 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1230 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1233 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1234 ===========================
1236 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1241 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1243 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1245 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1247 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1249 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1255 Use --quick when starting emacs
1257 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1259 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1261 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1263 Command-Line Interface
1264 ----------------------
1266 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1267 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1272 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1274 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1275 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1277 Fix for phrase indexing
1279 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1280 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1281 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1286 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1288 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1289 unintentionally removed.
1291 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1292 =========================
1297 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1298 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1299 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1300 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1301 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1302 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1303 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1304 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1305 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1311 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1313 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1314 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1315 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1316 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1317 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1318 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1319 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1320 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1322 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1324 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1325 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1326 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1327 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1330 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1332 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1333 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1334 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1335 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1336 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1337 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1338 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1343 Notmuch database upgrade
1345 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1346 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1347 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1348 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1349 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1350 released version of Notmuch before now.
1352 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1354 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1355 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1356 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1357 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1359 Message header parsing changes
1361 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1362 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1363 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1364 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1365 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1366 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1368 Command-Line Interface
1369 ----------------------
1371 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1373 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1375 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1377 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1379 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1381 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1382 user does not want it.
1384 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1386 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1387 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1388 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1389 support formatted output.
1391 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1393 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1394 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1395 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1403 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1404 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1405 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1406 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1407 `~/.emacs` with these.
1409 Changed format for saved searches
1411 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1412 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1413 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1414 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1417 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1418 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1419 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1420 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1422 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1423 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1424 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1426 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1427 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1428 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1429 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1430 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1432 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1434 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1435 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1436 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1438 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1440 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1441 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1442 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1443 message had been unread).
1445 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1446 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1447 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1448 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1450 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1451 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1452 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1454 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1455 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1456 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1457 to tags already present.
1461 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1462 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1463 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1464 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1465 these differ from each other.
1466 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1468 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1470 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1471 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1472 for these Emacs versions.
1474 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1476 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1477 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1479 Bug fixes for sender identities
1481 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1482 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1483 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1485 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1487 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1488 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1489 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1490 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1492 Reply pushes mark before signature
1494 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1495 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1496 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1498 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1500 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1501 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1507 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1508 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1510 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1511 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1512 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1513 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1515 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1516 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1517 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1518 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1519 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1521 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1523 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1524 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1526 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1527 =========================
1529 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1530 ---------------------------------------
1532 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1533 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1534 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1535 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1536 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1537 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1538 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1542 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1543 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1545 Command-Line Interface
1546 ----------------------
1548 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1550 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1551 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1552 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1553 print for each message.
1555 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1556 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1557 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1558 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1560 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1562 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1563 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1564 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1566 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1568 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1569 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1570 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1571 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1573 `notmuch compact` command
1575 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1576 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1577 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1578 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1579 move the compacted database into place.
1584 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1586 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1587 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1588 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1589 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1590 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1591 and multiple threads.
1593 Using `notmuch-tree`
1595 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1597 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1598 search, show and tree mode itself)
1600 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1603 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1604 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1606 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1608 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1609 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1610 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1611 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1612 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1613 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1614 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1616 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1618 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1619 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1620 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1621 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1622 thread when the search was performed.
1624 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1626 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1627 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1628 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1630 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1632 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1633 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1636 Built-in help improvements
1638 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1639 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1640 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1642 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1644 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1645 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1646 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1648 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1650 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1651 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1653 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1655 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1656 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1657 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1658 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1660 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1662 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1663 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1664 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1665 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1667 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1669 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1670 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1671 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1673 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1675 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1676 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1677 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1679 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1681 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1682 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1683 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1684 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1685 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1687 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1689 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1690 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1691 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1692 the body part of the message.
1697 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1698 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1699 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1701 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1702 =========================
1704 Command-Line Interface
1705 ----------------------
1707 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1709 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1710 folder and notmuch index.
1712 `notmuch count --batch` option
1714 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1715 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1717 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1719 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1720 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1721 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1724 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1726 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1727 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1728 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1729 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1730 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1733 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1735 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1736 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1738 Top level option to specify configuration file
1740 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1741 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1743 Bash command-line completion
1745 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1746 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1747 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1748 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1749 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1750 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1751 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1752 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1753 bash-completion package.
1755 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1760 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1762 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1763 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1764 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1765 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1766 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1767 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1768 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1769 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1771 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1773 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1774 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1775 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1777 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1779 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1780 previous thread in the search results.
1782 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1784 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1785 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1787 Faster search and show
1789 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1790 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1791 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1792 threads should show faster.
1796 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1797 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1798 in question was now removed from this release.
1803 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1804 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1809 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1811 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1812 ===========================
1817 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1819 Internal test framework changes
1820 -------------------------------
1822 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1823 being unimplemented.
1825 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1826 ===========================
1828 Internal test framework changes
1829 -------------------------------
1831 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1832 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1834 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1835 =========================
1840 Date range search support
1842 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1843 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1844 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1845 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1846 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1849 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1851 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1852 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1853 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1854 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1855 but may be removed in a future release.
1857 Command-Line Interface
1858 ----------------------
1860 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1862 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1863 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1865 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1867 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1868 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1869 officially deprecated.
1871 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1873 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1874 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1875 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1877 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1879 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1880 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1883 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1884 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1885 dump/restore format.
1887 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1889 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1890 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1891 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1893 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1895 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1896 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1897 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1899 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1901 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1902 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1903 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1904 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1909 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1911 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1912 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1913 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1914 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1916 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1918 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1919 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1920 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1921 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1922 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1923 the behavior of this, see
1924 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1925 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1927 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1928 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1929 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1931 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1933 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1934 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1937 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1939 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1940 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1941 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1942 simply displayed in place of the message.
1944 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1946 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1947 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1949 Improved text/calendar content handling
1951 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1952 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1953 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1954 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1956 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1958 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1959 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1960 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1961 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1963 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1965 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1966 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1967 for HTML email containing images.
1969 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1971 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1973 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1975 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1978 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1980 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1981 the point where it was.
1983 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1985 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1986 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1987 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1988 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1989 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1991 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1993 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1994 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1995 thread instead of the message id.
1997 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1998 -----------------------------
2000 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2001 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2002 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2003 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2004 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2005 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2006 further details and installation.
2011 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2013 Internal test framework changes
2014 -------------------------------
2016 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2018 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2019 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2020 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2021 can result in buggy behavior.
2023 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2024 =========================
2029 Maildir tag synchronization
2031 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2032 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2033 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2034 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2035 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2036 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2039 Command-Line Interface
2040 ----------------------
2042 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2043 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2044 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2045 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2046 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2052 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2054 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2056 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2057 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2058 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2060 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2062 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2063 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2064 span multiple lines.
2066 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2068 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2069 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2070 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2071 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2072 inside the result or message.
2074 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2076 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2077 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2079 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2080 user-specified formatting
2082 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2083 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2084 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2085 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2086 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2088 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2089 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2091 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2092 ===========================
2097 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2098 compilation error for this contrib package.
2100 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2101 ===========================
2106 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2108 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2109 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2110 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2111 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2113 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2114 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2117 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2118 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2119 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2120 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2123 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2125 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2128 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2129 =========================
2131 Command-Line Interface
2132 ----------------------
2136 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2137 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2138 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2139 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2141 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2142 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2143 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2144 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2148 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2149 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2151 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2152 tag in your query, for example:
2154 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2156 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2157 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2159 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2160 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2162 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2164 Raw show format changes
2166 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2167 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2168 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2169 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2170 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2171 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2172 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2173 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2175 Listing configuration items
2177 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2183 Changes to tagging interface
2185 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2186 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2187 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2188 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2189 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2190 for more information.
2192 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2193 may need to update in custom configurations.
2195 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2197 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2198 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2199 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2200 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2203 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2204 -----------------------------
2206 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2207 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2208 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2209 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2210 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2211 contrib/ from now on.
2216 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2217 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2219 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2220 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2222 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2223 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2224 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2226 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2227 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2229 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2230 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2231 returning the new database object or directory object.
2238 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2239 compatible with go 1.
2241 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2242 =========================
2244 Command-Line Interface
2245 ----------------------
2249 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2250 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2251 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2252 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2254 Mail store folder/file ignore
2256 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2257 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2258 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2260 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2261 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2263 Unified help and manual pages
2265 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2266 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2269 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2271 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2272 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2280 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2281 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2282 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2283 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2285 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2287 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2288 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2290 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2293 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2294 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2295 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2297 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2299 should be changed to:
2301 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2303 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2305 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2306 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2308 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2310 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2311 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2312 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2313 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2314 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2315 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2319 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2320 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2321 of Mailing List Archives.
2323 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2325 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2326 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2329 Show view archiving key binding changes
2331 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2332 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2333 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2334 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2335 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2338 Support text/calendar MIME type
2340 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2343 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2345 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2346 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2347 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2348 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2350 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2352 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2353 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2354 messages blue by default in the search view.
2358 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2359 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2366 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2369 Python bindings changes
2370 -----------------------
2372 Python 3.2 compatibility
2374 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2376 Added missing unicode conversions
2378 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2379 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2380 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2385 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2387 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2388 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2389 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2390 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2391 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2393 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2394 ===========================
2399 Fix error handling in python bindings
2401 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2402 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2403 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2404 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2406 Quote MML tags in replies
2408 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2409 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2410 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2411 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2412 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2413 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2414 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2415 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2417 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2418 =========================
2420 Command-Line Interface
2421 ----------------------
2425 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2426 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2427 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2428 importing new messages into the database.
2430 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2432 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2433 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2434 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2439 Automatic tag query optimization
2441 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2442 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2443 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2445 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2447 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2448 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2449 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2454 Reduction of memory leaks
2456 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2457 and fixed in this release.
2464 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2465 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2466 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2469 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2471 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2472 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2473 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2476 Improvements in saved search management
2478 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2479 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2480 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2482 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2484 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2485 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2486 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2488 New face for crypto parts headers
2490 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2491 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2492 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2495 Use space as default thousands separator
2497 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2498 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2499 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2501 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2502 buttonized id: links
2504 New function notmuch-show-advance
2506 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2507 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2508 be bound to SPC with:
2510 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2512 Various performance improvements
2517 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2518 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2521 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2522 ===========================
2527 Fix crash in python bindings
2529 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2530 for some, but not all users.
2532 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2533 ===========================
2538 Fix `--help` argument
2540 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2541 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2542 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2544 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2545 =========================
2547 New build and testing features
2548 ------------------------------
2550 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2551 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2552 prerequisites is improved.
2554 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2556 New command-line features
2557 -------------------------
2559 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2561 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2562 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2565 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2567 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2568 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2569 favour of using stdout.
2571 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2573 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2574 limit the number of results shown.
2576 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2578 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2579 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2582 New emacs UI features
2583 ---------------------
2585 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2587 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2588 starting with "tag:".
2590 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2592 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2593 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2595 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2597 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2599 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2601 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2602 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2607 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2609 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2611 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2612 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2613 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2614 requires a database rebuild:
2616 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2617 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2619 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2621 New collection of add-on tools
2622 ------------------------------
2624 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2625 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2626 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2629 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2631 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2632 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2633 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2635 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2636 ========================
2638 New, general features
2639 ---------------------
2641 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2643 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2644 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2645 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2646 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2647 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2654 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2655 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2657 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2661 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2662 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2663 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2666 Python bindings changes
2667 -----------------------
2669 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2671 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2672 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2673 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2674 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2675 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2676 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2678 Ruby bindings changes
2679 ---------------------
2681 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2682 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2683 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2684 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2689 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2691 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2692 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2694 Reply formatting cleanup
2695 ------------------------
2697 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2698 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2700 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2701 ========================
2703 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2705 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2706 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2707 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2708 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2711 Improved Build system portability
2713 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2714 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2715 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2717 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2719 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2721 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2723 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2724 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2725 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2727 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2728 ========================
2730 Vim interface improvements
2731 --------------------------
2733 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2735 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2736 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2737 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2738 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2739 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2741 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2743 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2744 * fix compose temp file name
2746 Python Bindings changes
2747 -----------------------
2749 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2751 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2752 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2754 Build-System improvements
2755 -------------------------
2757 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2759 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2762 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2763 ==========================
2768 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2770 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2771 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2773 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2774 =======================
2776 New, general features
2777 ---------------------
2779 Folder-based searching
2781 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2782 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2783 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2787 For example, one might use things such as:
2793 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2794 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2796 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2797 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2798 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2799 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2801 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2802 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2803 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2806 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2807 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2809 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2811 Support for PGP/MIME
2813 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2814 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2815 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2817 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2819 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2820 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2822 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2823 notmuch will receive these tags.
2825 New command-line features
2826 -------------------------
2828 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2830 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2831 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2833 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2835 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2836 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2837 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2839 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2841 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2842 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2843 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2844 which parts a signature part applies).
2846 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2848 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2849 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2850 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2851 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2852 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2855 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2857 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2858 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2859 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2860 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2861 by translating it internally to the new call.
2863 Performance improvements
2864 ------------------------
2866 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2868 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2869 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2870 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2872 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2873 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2875 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2877 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2878 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2879 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2881 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2882 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2883 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2884 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2886 Faster initial indexing
2888 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2889 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2890 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2892 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2894 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2895 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2896 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2897 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2899 New emacs-interface features
2900 ----------------------------
2902 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2904 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2905 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2906 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2907 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2908 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2909 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2911 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2913 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2914 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2915 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2916 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2918 User-selectable From address
2920 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2921 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2922 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2923 will prompt for the from address to use.
2925 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2926 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2927 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2929 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2930 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2931 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2934 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2936 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2937 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2939 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2941 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2943 ----- Original Message -----
2945 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2946 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2947 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2948 citations work much like conventional citations.
2950 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2952 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2953 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2954 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2955 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2956 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2958 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2959 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2961 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2963 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2964 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2965 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2967 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2969 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2970 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2971 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2972 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2973 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2975 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2977 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2980 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2982 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2984 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2986 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2989 Vim interface improvements
2990 --------------------------
2992 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2994 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2995 * Implementing archive in show view
2996 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2997 * Add delete commands
3000 Bindings improvements
3001 ---------------------
3003 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3005 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3006 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3008 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3010 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3014 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3015 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3016 `list(Messages)` works now
3017 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3019 These allow, for example:
3021 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3023 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3025 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3031 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3033 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3036 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3038 New build-system features
3039 -------------------------
3041 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3043 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3044 the configure script from some other directory:
3051 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3053 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3054 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3055 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3056 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3057 manual invocation of configure.
3059 New test-suite feature
3060 ----------------------
3062 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3064 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3065 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3066 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3067 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3068 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3071 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3073 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3074 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3075 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3076 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3077 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3078 are updated to take advantage of this.
3080 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3082 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3083 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3084 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3085 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3091 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3093 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3094 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3095 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3097 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3099 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3101 to:user@elsewhere.com
3103 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3105 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3107 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3109 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3110 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3111 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3114 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3115 from the Received headers in some cases
3117 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3118 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3120 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3122 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3124 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3126 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3127 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3128 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3130 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3131 -------------------------
3133 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3135 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3136 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3137 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3139 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3141 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3142 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3143 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3146 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3148 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3149 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3150 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3151 fixed to avoid this bug.
3153 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3155 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3156 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3158 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3159 ========================
3161 New, general features
3162 ---------------------
3164 Maildir-flag synchronization
3166 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3167 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3176 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3178 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3179 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3180 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3181 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3183 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3184 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3185 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3186 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3189 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3191 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3192 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3193 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3195 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3196 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3198 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3199 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3201 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3202 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3203 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3205 New library features
3206 --------------------
3208 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3210 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3211 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3212 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3213 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3215 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3216 message with the new function:
3218 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3220 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3221 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3222 over all available filenames for a given message.
3224 New command-line features
3225 -------------------------
3227 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3229 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3230 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3231 access to the mail store itself.
3233 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3234 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3235 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3236 name of a script containing:
3238 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3240 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3241 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3247 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3249 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3251 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3253 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3254 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3255 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3256 now produces nothing).
3258 Emacs interface improvements
3259 ----------------------------
3261 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3263 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3265 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3267 Display current thread subject in a header line
3269 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3271 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3273 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3274 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3275 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3276 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3277 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3278 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3279 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3281 Vim interface improvements
3282 --------------------------
3284 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3286 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3287 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3293 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3295 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3296 ========================
3298 New command-line features
3299 -------------------------
3301 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3303 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3304 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3305 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3307 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3308 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3309 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3310 scripts. For example:
3312 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3313 <operations-on> "$file"
3316 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3318 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3319 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3320 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3321 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3322 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3323 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3325 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3327 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3328 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3329 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3330 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3332 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3334 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3335 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3336 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3337 default rather than Bcc.
3339 New library features
3340 --------------------
3342 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3344 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3345 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3350 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3352 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3353 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3354 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3355 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3356 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3357 notmuch customize interface.
3359 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3361 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3362 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3363 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3364 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3366 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3368 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3369 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3370 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3371 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3373 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3375 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3376 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3377 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3378 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3379 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3380 notmuch customize interface.
3382 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3384 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3385 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3386 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3387 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3388 notmuch customize interface.
3390 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3392 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3393 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3394 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3395 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3398 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3400 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3401 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3402 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3405 New build-system features
3406 -------------------------
3408 Various portability fixes have been applied
3410 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3411 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3412 more portable than ever before.
3414 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3416 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3417 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3418 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3420 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3421 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3422 automatically run ldconfig.
3424 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3425 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3426 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3428 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3429 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3430 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3431 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3433 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3435 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3436 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3437 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3438 used in the resulting Makefile.
3440 New test-suite features
3441 -----------------------
3443 New modularization of test suite
3445 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3446 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3447 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3448 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3449 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3450 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3451 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3452 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3454 New testing of emacs interface
3456 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3457 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3458 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3459 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3460 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3461 database via the FCC setting.
3466 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3468 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3469 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3470 persistent error of the form:
3472 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3474 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3475 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3477 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3479 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3480 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3481 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3483 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3485 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3486 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3487 parsing the notmuch results).
3489 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3491 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3494 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3495 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3496 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3501 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3503 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3504 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3505 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3506 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3507 the emacs interface.
3509 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3511 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3512 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3513 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3515 Python-binding fixes
3516 --------------------
3518 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3520 Debian-specific fixes
3521 ---------------------
3523 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3525 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3526 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3527 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3530 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3531 ==========================
3536 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3538 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3539 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3540 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3541 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3543 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3545 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3546 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3547 want notmuch to crash.
3552 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3554 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3555 directory does not exist
3560 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3562 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3563 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3565 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3566 ========================
3568 New command-line features
3569 -------------------------
3571 User-configurable tags for new messages
3573 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3574 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3575 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3576 to specify this value.
3578 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3580 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3581 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3582 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3584 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3586 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3587 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3589 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3591 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3592 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3593 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3594 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3595 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3598 Indication of author names that match a search
3600 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3601 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3602 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3603 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3604 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3605 messages in the thread are listed first.
3607 New: Python bindings
3608 --------------------
3610 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3611 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3612 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3613 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3615 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3616 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3617 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3620 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3621 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3622 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3624 Emacs interface improvements
3625 ----------------------------
3627 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3629 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3630 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3631 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3632 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3633 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3634 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3635 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3636 but without any of the disadvantages).
3638 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3639 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3640 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3643 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3644 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3645 instead running something like:
3647 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3649 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3650 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3651 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3654 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3656 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3657 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3658 tweaked by the user.
3660 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3661 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3662 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3665 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3666 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3667 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3670 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3672 This support currently relies on an external program,
3673 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3674 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3675 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3676 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3677 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3680 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3681 notmuch) is available via:
3683 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3685 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3686 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3687 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3689 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3691 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3692 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3693 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3694 making this automatic in a future release.
3696 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3698 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3699 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3700 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3701 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3702 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3703 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3706 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3708 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3709 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3710 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3712 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3714 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3715 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3716 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3718 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3719 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3720 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3721 other representation.
3723 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3724 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3727 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3729 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3730 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3731 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3733 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3734 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3735 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3737 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3739 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3740 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3741 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3742 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3743 to display the search result.
3745 More flexible handling of header visibility
3747 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3748 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3749 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3750 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3751 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3752 with the 'h' keybinding.
3754 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3755 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3756 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3758 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3760 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3762 Customizable formatting of search results
3764 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3765 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3766 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3768 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3770 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3772 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3777 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3779 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3780 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3781 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3782 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3788 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3790 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3791 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3793 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3795 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3796 accept are now all accepted.
3801 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3803 Better display of output from failed tests
3805 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3806 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3808 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3809 ========================
3811 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3812 detailed release notes this time!
3814 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3815 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3817 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3818 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3819 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3820 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3827 Better guessing of From: header
3829 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3830 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3831 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3832 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3833 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3836 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3838 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3839 guaranteed to match all messages.
3841 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3843 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3844 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3845 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3846 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3847 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3850 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3853 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3854 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3855 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3856 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3861 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3863 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3864 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3865 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3866 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3868 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3870 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3872 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3873 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3874 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3876 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3878 Previously, the user might see:
3880 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3884 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3886 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3887 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3888 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3889 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3891 Emacs client features
3892 ---------------------
3894 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3896 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3897 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3898 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3899 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3900 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3902 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3905 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3906 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3907 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3908 search with the '*' binding.
3910 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3912 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3913 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3916 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3918 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3919 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3920 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3922 Build-system features
3923 ---------------------
3925 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3927 Add support to configure for many standard options
3929 We include actual support for:
3931 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3933 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3935 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3936 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3938 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3939 separate "make install-emacs"
3941 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3943 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3944 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3945 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3947 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3950 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3951 ========================
3953 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3955 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3956 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3958 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3959 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3960 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3961 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3962 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3963 tags from messages in a thread.
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