1 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
2 ===========================
7 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
12 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
14 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
15 ===========================
20 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
22 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
23 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
24 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
26 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
28 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
30 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
31 ===========================
36 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
38 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
43 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
45 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
46 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
49 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
50 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
52 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
54 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
55 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
56 bug, and hence the test.
58 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
59 =========================
64 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
66 Support for single argument date: queries
68 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
70 Support for blocking opens
72 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
73 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
75 Support for named queries
77 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
78 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
79 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
86 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
87 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
88 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
89 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
91 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
93 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
98 Support for compile time options
100 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
101 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
104 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
106 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
107 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
108 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
109 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
110 scripts to ignore it.
115 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
117 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
118 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
119 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
121 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
122 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
123 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
124 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
125 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
126 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
127 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
129 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
130 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
133 Make internal address completion customizable
135 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
136 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
137 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
138 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
141 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
143 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
144 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
145 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
146 completion for the current buffer.
148 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
149 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
150 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
154 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
155 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
156 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
157 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
158 will be added instead.
160 Face customization is easier
162 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
163 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
164 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
165 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
167 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
172 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
177 Go bindings moved to contrib
179 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
181 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
183 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
184 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
186 The same issue occured with sort modes.
188 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
189 ===========================
196 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
197 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
199 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
201 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
203 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
204 ===========================
209 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
211 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
216 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
221 Use `env` to locate perl.
226 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
228 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
230 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
232 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
234 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
235 =========================
242 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
243 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
245 Limited support for S/MIME messages
247 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
248 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
249 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
254 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
255 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
256 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
258 Command Line Interface
259 ----------------------
261 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
263 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
268 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
273 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
275 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
276 parts are now included in replies.
278 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
279 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
280 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
281 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
283 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
285 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
287 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
289 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
290 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
291 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
292 forwards only the current message.
294 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
296 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
297 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
298 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
299 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
300 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
301 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
302 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
303 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
306 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
307 longer generate empty buffers
309 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
310 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
311 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
312 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
313 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
315 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
317 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
320 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
322 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
325 Address completion improvements
327 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
328 you previously configured one, customize the variable
329 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
330 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
331 interactive address completion.
333 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
335 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
336 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
337 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
342 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
343 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
344 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
350 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
351 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
352 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
353 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
354 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
355 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
357 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
358 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
359 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
360 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
361 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
362 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
364 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
365 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
367 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
368 =========================
373 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
376 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
378 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
379 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
380 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
382 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
383 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
385 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
386 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
387 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
389 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
391 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
392 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
393 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
394 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
395 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
396 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
401 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
402 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
405 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
408 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
410 Command Line Interface
411 ----------------------
413 Database revision tracking
415 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
416 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
417 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
418 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
420 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
422 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
423 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
424 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
425 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
426 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
427 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
428 manual page for further information.
433 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
435 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
436 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
438 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
440 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
441 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
442 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
444 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
446 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
448 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
449 customization as well.
451 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
453 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
455 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
457 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
459 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
460 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
461 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
462 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
464 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
466 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
467 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
468 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
469 this variable to 10000.
474 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
475 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
477 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
479 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
480 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
481 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
482 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
483 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
484 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
485 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
486 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
487 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
490 Database revision tracking
492 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
493 query parser and the new function
494 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
496 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
500 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
501 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
502 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
503 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
508 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
510 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
511 ===========================
516 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
518 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
519 ===========================
524 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
526 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
527 =========================
529 Command-Line Interface
530 ----------------------
532 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
534 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
535 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
536 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
538 Path to gpg is now configurable
540 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
541 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
546 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
548 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
553 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
558 Support messages without Message-IDs.
563 Undeprecate single message mboxes
565 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
566 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
568 New error logging facility
570 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
571 output formerly printed to stderr.
573 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
575 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
577 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
579 Fix for rounding of seconds
584 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
586 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
587 docmumentation has been removed.
589 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
591 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
592 some material from the relicensed wiki.
597 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
598 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
599 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
604 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
605 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
606 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
607 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
608 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
609 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
612 git checkout config origin/config
614 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
616 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
617 =========================
622 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
623 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
624 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
625 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
626 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
627 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
628 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
630 Command-Line Interface
631 ----------------------
633 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
635 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
636 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
637 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
638 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
639 script callers should still check the return value.
641 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
643 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
644 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
645 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
646 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
647 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
648 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
649 and returning success even if indexing fails).
651 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
653 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
654 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
655 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
657 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
659 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
660 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
661 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
662 currently unmaintained.
664 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
666 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
667 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
668 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
669 have at least `N` files associated with them.
671 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
673 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
674 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
675 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
676 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
677 count of duplicate addresses.
682 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
684 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
685 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
686 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
689 Improved handling of the unread tag
691 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
692 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
693 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
694 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
695 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
696 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
697 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
699 Expanded default saved search settings
701 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
702 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
704 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
706 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
707 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
708 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
710 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
712 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
713 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
714 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
715 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
716 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
717 the variable for details.
722 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
724 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
725 Representing these independently of the database version number will
726 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
727 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
729 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
731 Previously, library users were required to call
732 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
733 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
734 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
735 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
736 too out of date for that API.
738 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
740 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
741 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
742 atomic section will be aborted.
744 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
745 `notmuch_database_destroy`
747 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
749 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
750 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
751 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
752 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
753 messages into the same thread.
758 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
759 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
760 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
761 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
762 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
763 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
768 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
769 from the config file. Use something like:
773 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
774 "footer": "</body></html>",
783 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
788 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
789 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
790 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
792 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
793 ===========================
798 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
800 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
802 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
804 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
805 structure for signatures changed slightly.
807 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
809 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
812 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
813 ===========================
815 This is a bug fix and portability release.
820 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
822 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
824 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
826 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
828 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
834 Use --quick when starting emacs
836 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
838 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
840 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
842 Command-Line Interface
843 ----------------------
845 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
846 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
851 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
853 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
854 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
856 Fix for phrase indexing
858 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
859 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
860 will affect only newly indexed messages.
865 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
867 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
868 unintentionally removed.
870 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
871 =========================
876 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
877 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
878 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
879 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
880 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
881 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
882 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
883 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
884 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
890 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
892 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
893 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
894 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
895 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
896 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
897 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
898 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
899 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
901 There is a new `path:` search prefix
903 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
904 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
905 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
906 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
909 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
911 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
912 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
913 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
914 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
915 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
916 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
917 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
922 Notmuch database upgrade
924 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
925 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
926 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
927 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
928 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
929 released version of Notmuch before now.
931 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
933 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
934 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
935 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
936 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
938 Message header parsing changes
940 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
941 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
942 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
943 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
944 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
945 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
947 Command-Line Interface
948 ----------------------
950 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
952 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
954 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
956 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
958 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
960 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
961 user does not want it.
963 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
965 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
966 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
967 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
968 support formatted output.
970 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
972 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
973 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
974 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
982 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
983 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
984 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
985 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
986 `~/.emacs` with these.
988 Changed format for saved searches
990 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
991 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
992 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
993 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
996 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
997 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
998 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
999 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1001 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1002 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1003 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1005 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1006 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1007 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1008 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1009 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1011 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1013 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1014 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1015 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1017 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1019 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1020 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1021 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1022 message had been unread).
1024 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1025 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1026 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1027 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1029 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1030 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1031 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1033 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1034 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1035 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1036 to tags already present.
1040 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1041 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1042 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1043 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1044 these differ from each other.
1045 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1047 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1049 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1050 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1051 for these Emacs versions.
1053 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1055 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1056 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1058 Bug fixes for sender identities
1060 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1061 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1062 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1064 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1066 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1067 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1068 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1069 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1071 Reply pushes mark before signature
1073 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1074 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1075 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1077 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1079 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1080 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1086 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1087 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1089 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1090 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1091 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1092 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1094 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1095 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1096 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1097 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1098 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1100 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1102 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1103 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1105 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1106 =========================
1108 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1109 ---------------------------------------
1111 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1112 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1113 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1114 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1115 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1116 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1117 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1121 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1122 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1124 Command-Line Interface
1125 ----------------------
1127 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1129 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1130 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1131 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1132 print for each message.
1134 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1135 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1136 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1137 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1139 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1141 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1142 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1143 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1145 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1147 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1148 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1149 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1150 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1152 `notmuch compact` command
1154 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1155 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1156 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1157 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1158 move the compacted database into place.
1163 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1165 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1166 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1167 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1168 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1169 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1170 and multiple threads.
1172 Using `notmuch-tree`
1174 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1176 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1177 search, show and tree mode itself)
1179 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1182 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1183 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1185 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1187 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1188 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1189 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1190 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1191 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1192 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1193 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1195 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1197 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1198 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1199 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1200 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1201 thread when the search was performed.
1203 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1205 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1206 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1207 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1209 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1211 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1212 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1215 Built-in help improvements
1217 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1218 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1219 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1221 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1223 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1224 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1225 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1227 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1229 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1230 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1232 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1234 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1235 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1236 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1237 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1239 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1241 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1242 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1243 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1244 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1246 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1248 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1249 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1250 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1252 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1254 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1255 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1256 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1258 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1260 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1261 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1262 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1263 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1264 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1266 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1268 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1269 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1270 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1271 the body part of the message.
1276 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1277 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1278 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1280 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1281 =========================
1283 Command-Line Interface
1284 ----------------------
1286 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1288 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1289 folder and notmuch index.
1291 `notmuch count --batch` option
1293 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1294 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1296 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1298 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1299 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1300 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1303 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1305 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1306 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1307 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1308 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1309 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1312 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1314 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1315 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1317 Top level option to specify configuration file
1319 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1320 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1322 Bash command-line completion
1324 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1325 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1326 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1327 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1328 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1329 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1330 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1331 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1332 bash-completion package.
1334 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1339 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1341 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1342 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1343 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1344 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1345 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1346 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1347 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1348 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1350 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1352 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1353 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1354 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1356 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1358 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1359 previous thread in the search results.
1361 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1363 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1364 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1366 Faster search and show
1368 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1369 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1370 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1371 threads should show faster.
1375 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1376 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1377 in question was now removed from this release.
1382 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1383 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1388 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1390 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1391 ===========================
1396 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1398 Internal test framework changes
1399 -------------------------------
1401 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1402 being unimplemented.
1404 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1405 ===========================
1407 Internal test framework changes
1408 -------------------------------
1410 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1411 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1413 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1414 =========================
1419 Date range search support
1421 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1422 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1423 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1424 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1425 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1428 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1430 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1431 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1432 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1433 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1434 but may be removed in a future release.
1436 Command-Line Interface
1437 ----------------------
1439 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1441 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1442 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1444 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1446 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1447 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1448 officially deprecated.
1450 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1452 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1453 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1454 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1456 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1458 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1459 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1462 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1463 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1464 dump/restore format.
1466 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1468 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1469 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1470 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1472 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1474 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1475 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1476 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1478 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1480 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1481 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1482 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1483 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1488 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1490 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1491 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1492 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1493 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1495 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1497 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1498 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1499 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1500 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1501 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1502 the behavior of this, see
1503 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1504 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1506 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1507 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1508 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1510 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1512 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1513 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1516 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1518 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1519 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1520 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1521 simply displayed in place of the message.
1523 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1525 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1526 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1528 Improved text/calendar content handling
1530 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1531 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1532 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1533 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1535 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1537 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1538 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1539 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1540 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1542 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1544 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1545 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1546 for HTML email containing images.
1548 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1550 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1552 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1554 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1557 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1559 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1560 the point where it was.
1562 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1564 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1565 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1566 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1567 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1568 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1570 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1572 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1573 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1574 thread instead of the message id.
1576 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1577 -----------------------------
1579 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1580 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1581 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1582 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1583 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1584 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1585 further details and installation.
1590 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1592 Internal test framework changes
1593 -------------------------------
1595 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1597 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1598 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1599 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1600 can result in buggy behavior.
1602 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1603 =========================
1608 Maildir tag synchronization
1610 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1611 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1612 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1613 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1614 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1615 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1618 Command-Line Interface
1619 ----------------------
1621 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1622 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1623 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1624 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1625 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1631 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1633 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1635 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1636 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1637 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1639 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1641 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1642 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1643 span multiple lines.
1645 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1647 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1648 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1649 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1650 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1651 inside the result or message.
1653 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1655 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1656 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1658 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1659 user-specified formatting
1661 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1662 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1663 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1664 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1665 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1667 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1668 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1670 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1671 ===========================
1676 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1677 compilation error for this contrib package.
1679 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1680 ===========================
1685 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1687 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1688 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1689 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1690 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1692 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1693 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1696 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1697 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1698 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1699 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1702 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1704 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1707 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1708 =========================
1710 Command-Line Interface
1711 ----------------------
1715 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1716 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1717 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1718 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1720 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1721 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1722 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1723 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1727 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1728 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1730 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1731 tag in your query, for example:
1733 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1735 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1736 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1738 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1739 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1741 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1743 Raw show format changes
1745 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1746 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1747 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1748 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1749 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1750 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1751 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1752 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1754 Listing configuration items
1756 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1762 Changes to tagging interface
1764 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1765 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1766 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1767 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1768 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1769 for more information.
1771 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1772 may need to update in custom configurations.
1774 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1776 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1777 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1778 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1779 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1782 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1783 -----------------------------
1785 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1786 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1787 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1788 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1789 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1790 contrib/ from now on.
1795 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1796 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1798 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1799 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1801 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1802 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1803 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1805 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1806 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1808 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1809 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1810 returning the new database object or directory object.
1817 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1818 compatible with go 1.
1820 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1821 =========================
1823 Command-Line Interface
1824 ----------------------
1828 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1829 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1830 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1831 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1833 Mail store folder/file ignore
1835 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1836 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1837 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1839 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1840 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1842 Unified help and manual pages
1844 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1845 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1848 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1850 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1851 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1859 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1860 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1861 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1862 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1864 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1866 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1867 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1869 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1872 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1873 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1874 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1876 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1878 should be changed to:
1880 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1882 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1884 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1885 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1887 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1889 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1890 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1891 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1892 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1893 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1894 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1898 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1899 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1900 of Mailing List Archives.
1902 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1904 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1905 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1908 Show view archiving key binding changes
1910 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1911 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1912 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1913 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1914 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1917 Support text/calendar MIME type
1919 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1922 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1924 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1925 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1926 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1927 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1929 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1931 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1932 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1933 messages blue by default in the search view.
1937 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1938 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1945 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1948 Python bindings changes
1949 -----------------------
1951 Python 3.2 compatibility
1953 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1955 Added missing unicode conversions
1957 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1958 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1959 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1964 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1966 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1967 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1968 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1969 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1970 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1972 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1973 ===========================
1978 Fix error handling in python bindings
1980 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1981 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1982 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1983 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1985 Quote MML tags in replies
1987 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1988 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1989 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1990 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1991 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1992 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1993 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1994 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1996 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1997 =========================
1999 Command-Line Interface
2000 ----------------------
2004 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2005 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2006 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2007 importing new messages into the database.
2009 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2011 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2012 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2013 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2018 Automatic tag query optimization
2020 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2021 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2022 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2024 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2026 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2027 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2028 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2033 Reduction of memory leaks
2035 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2036 and fixed in this release.
2043 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2044 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2045 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2048 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2050 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2051 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2052 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2055 Improvements in saved search management
2057 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2058 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2059 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2061 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2063 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2064 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2065 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2067 New face for crypto parts headers
2069 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2070 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2071 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2074 Use space as default thousands separator
2076 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2077 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2078 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2080 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2081 buttonized id: links
2083 New function notmuch-show-advance
2085 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2086 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2087 be bound to SPC with:
2089 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2091 Various performance improvements
2096 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2097 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2100 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2101 ===========================
2106 Fix crash in python bindings
2108 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2109 for some, but not all users.
2111 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2112 ===========================
2117 Fix `--help` argument
2119 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2120 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2121 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2123 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2124 =========================
2126 New build and testing features
2127 ------------------------------
2129 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2130 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2131 prerequisites is improved.
2133 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2135 New command-line features
2136 -------------------------
2138 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2140 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2141 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2144 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2146 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2147 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2148 favour of using stdout.
2150 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2152 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2153 limit the number of results shown.
2155 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2157 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2158 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2161 New emacs UI features
2162 ---------------------
2164 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2166 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2167 starting with "tag:".
2169 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2171 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2172 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2174 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2176 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2178 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2180 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2181 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2186 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2188 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2190 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2191 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2192 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2193 requires a database rebuild:
2195 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2196 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2198 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2200 New collection of add-on tools
2201 ------------------------------
2203 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2204 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2205 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2208 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2210 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2211 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2212 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2214 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2215 ========================
2217 New, general features
2218 ---------------------
2220 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2222 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2223 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2224 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2225 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2226 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2233 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2234 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2236 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2240 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2241 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2242 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2245 Python bindings changes
2246 -----------------------
2248 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2250 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2251 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2252 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2253 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2254 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2255 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2257 Ruby bindings changes
2258 ---------------------
2260 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2261 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2262 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2263 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2268 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2270 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2271 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2273 Reply formatting cleanup
2274 ------------------------
2276 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2277 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2279 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2280 ========================
2282 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2284 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2285 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2286 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2287 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2290 Improved Build system portability
2292 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2293 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2294 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2296 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2298 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2300 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2302 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2303 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2304 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2306 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2307 ========================
2309 Vim interface improvements
2310 --------------------------
2312 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2314 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2315 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2316 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2317 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2318 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2320 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2322 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2323 * fix compose temp file name
2325 Python Bindings changes
2326 -----------------------
2328 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2330 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2331 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2333 Build-System improvements
2334 -------------------------
2336 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2338 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2341 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2342 ==========================
2347 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2349 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2350 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2352 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2353 =======================
2355 New, general features
2356 ---------------------
2358 Folder-based searching
2360 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2361 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2362 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2366 For example, one might use things such as:
2372 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2373 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2375 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2376 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2377 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2378 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2380 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2381 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2382 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2385 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2386 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2388 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2390 Support for PGP/MIME
2392 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2393 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2394 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2396 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2398 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2399 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2401 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2402 notmuch will receive these tags.
2404 New command-line features
2405 -------------------------
2407 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2409 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2410 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2412 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2414 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2415 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2416 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2418 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2420 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2421 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2422 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2423 which parts a signature part applies).
2425 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2427 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2428 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2429 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2430 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2431 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2434 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2436 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2437 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2438 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2439 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2440 by translating it internally to the new call.
2442 Performance improvements
2443 ------------------------
2445 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2447 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2448 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2449 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2451 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2452 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2454 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2456 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2457 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2458 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2460 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2461 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2462 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2463 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2465 Faster initial indexing
2467 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2468 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2469 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2471 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2473 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2474 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2475 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2476 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2478 New emacs-interface features
2479 ----------------------------
2481 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2483 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2484 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2485 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2486 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2487 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2488 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2490 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2492 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2493 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2494 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2495 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2497 User-selectable From address
2499 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2500 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2501 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2502 will prompt for the from address to use.
2504 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2505 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2506 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2508 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2509 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2510 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2513 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2515 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2516 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2518 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2520 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2522 ----- Original Message -----
2524 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2525 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2526 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2527 citations work much like conventional citations.
2529 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2531 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2532 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2533 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2534 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2535 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2537 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2538 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2540 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2542 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2543 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2544 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2546 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2548 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2549 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2550 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2551 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2552 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2554 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2556 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2559 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2561 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2563 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2565 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2568 Vim interface improvements
2569 --------------------------
2571 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2573 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2574 * Implementing archive in show view
2575 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2576 * Add delete commands
2579 Bindings improvements
2580 ---------------------
2582 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2584 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2585 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2587 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2589 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2593 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2594 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2595 `list(Messages)` works now
2596 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2598 These allow, for example:
2600 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2602 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2604 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2610 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2612 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2615 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2617 New build-system features
2618 -------------------------
2620 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2622 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2623 the configure script from some other directory:
2630 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2632 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2633 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2634 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2635 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2636 manual invocation of configure.
2638 New test-suite feature
2639 ----------------------
2641 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2643 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2644 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2645 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2646 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2647 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2650 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2652 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2653 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2654 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2655 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2656 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2657 are updated to take advantage of this.
2659 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2661 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2662 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2663 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2664 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2670 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2672 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2673 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2674 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2676 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2678 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2680 to:user@elsewhere.com
2682 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2684 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2686 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2688 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2689 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2690 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2693 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2694 from the Received headers in some cases
2696 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2697 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2699 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2701 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2703 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2705 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2706 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2707 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2709 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2710 -------------------------
2712 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2714 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2715 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2716 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2718 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2720 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2721 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2722 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2725 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2727 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2728 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2729 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2730 fixed to avoid this bug.
2732 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2734 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2735 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2737 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2738 ========================
2740 New, general features
2741 ---------------------
2743 Maildir-flag synchronization
2745 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2746 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2755 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2757 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2758 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2759 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2760 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2762 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2763 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2764 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2765 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2768 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2770 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2771 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2772 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2774 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2775 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2777 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2778 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2780 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2781 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2782 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2784 New library features
2785 --------------------
2787 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2789 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2790 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2791 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2792 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2794 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2795 message with the new function:
2797 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2799 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2800 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2801 over all available filenames for a given message.
2803 New command-line features
2804 -------------------------
2806 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2808 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2809 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2810 access to the mail store itself.
2812 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2813 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2814 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2815 name of a script containing:
2817 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2819 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2820 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2826 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2828 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2830 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2832 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2833 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2834 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2835 now produces nothing).
2837 Emacs interface improvements
2838 ----------------------------
2840 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2842 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2844 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2846 Display current thread subject in a header line
2848 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2850 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2852 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2853 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2854 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2855 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2856 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2857 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2858 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2860 Vim interface improvements
2861 --------------------------
2863 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2865 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2866 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2872 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2874 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2875 ========================
2877 New command-line features
2878 -------------------------
2880 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2882 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2883 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2884 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2886 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2887 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2888 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2889 scripts. For example:
2891 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2892 <operations-on> "$file"
2895 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2897 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2898 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2899 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2900 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2901 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2902 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2904 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2906 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2907 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2908 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2909 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2911 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2913 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2914 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2915 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2916 default rather than Bcc.
2918 New library features
2919 --------------------
2921 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2923 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2924 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2929 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2931 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2932 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2933 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2934 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2935 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2936 notmuch customize interface.
2938 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2940 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2941 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2942 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2943 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2945 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2947 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2948 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2949 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2950 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2952 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2954 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2955 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2956 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2957 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2958 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2959 notmuch customize interface.
2961 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2963 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2964 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2965 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2966 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2967 notmuch customize interface.
2969 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2971 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2972 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2973 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2974 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2977 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2979 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2980 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2981 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2984 New build-system features
2985 -------------------------
2987 Various portability fixes have been applied
2989 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2990 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2991 more portable than ever before.
2993 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2995 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2996 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2997 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2999 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3000 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3001 automatically run ldconfig.
3003 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3004 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3005 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3007 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3008 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3009 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3010 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3012 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3014 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3015 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3016 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3017 used in the resulting Makefile.
3019 New test-suite features
3020 -----------------------
3022 New modularization of test suite
3024 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3025 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3026 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3027 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3028 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3029 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3030 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3031 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3033 New testing of emacs interface
3035 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3036 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3037 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3038 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3039 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3040 database via the FCC setting.
3045 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3047 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3048 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3049 persistent error of the form:
3051 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3053 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3054 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3056 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3058 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3059 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3060 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3062 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3064 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3065 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3066 parsing the notmuch results).
3068 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3070 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3073 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3074 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3075 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3080 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3082 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3083 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3084 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3085 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3086 the emacs interface.
3088 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3090 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3091 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3092 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3094 Python-binding fixes
3095 --------------------
3097 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3099 Debian-specific fixes
3100 ---------------------
3102 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3104 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3105 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3106 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3109 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3110 ==========================
3115 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3117 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3118 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3119 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3120 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3122 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3124 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3125 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3126 want notmuch to crash.
3131 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3133 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3134 directory does not exist
3139 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3141 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3142 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3144 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3145 ========================
3147 New command-line features
3148 -------------------------
3150 User-configurable tags for new messages
3152 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3153 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3154 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3155 to specify this value.
3157 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3159 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3160 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3161 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3163 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3165 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3166 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3168 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3170 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3171 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3172 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3173 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3174 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3177 Indication of author names that match a search
3179 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3180 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3181 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3182 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3183 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3184 messages in the thread are listed first.
3186 New: Python bindings
3187 --------------------
3189 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3190 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3191 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3192 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3194 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3195 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3196 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3199 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3200 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3201 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3203 Emacs interface improvements
3204 ----------------------------
3206 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3208 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3209 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3210 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3211 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3212 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3213 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3214 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3215 but without any of the disadvantages).
3217 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3218 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3219 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3222 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3223 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3224 instead running something like:
3226 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3228 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3229 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3230 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3233 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3235 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3236 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3237 tweaked by the user.
3239 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3240 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3241 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3244 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3245 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3246 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3249 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3251 This support currently relies on an external program,
3252 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3253 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3254 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3255 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3256 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3259 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3260 notmuch) is available via:
3262 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3264 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3265 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3266 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3268 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3270 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3271 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3272 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3273 making this automatic in a future release.
3275 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3277 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3278 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3279 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3280 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3281 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3282 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3285 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3287 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3288 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3289 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3291 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3293 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3294 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3295 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3297 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3298 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3299 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3300 other representation.
3302 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3303 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3306 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3308 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3309 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3310 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3312 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3313 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3314 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3316 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3318 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3319 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3320 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3321 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3322 to display the search result.
3324 More flexible handling of header visibility
3326 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3327 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3328 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3329 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3330 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3331 with the 'h' keybinding.
3333 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3334 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3335 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3337 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3339 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3341 Customizable formatting of search results
3343 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3344 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3345 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3347 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3349 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3351 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3356 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3358 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3359 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3360 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3361 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3367 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3369 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3370 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3372 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3374 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3375 accept are now all accepted.
3380 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3382 Better display of output from failed tests
3384 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3385 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3387 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3388 ========================
3390 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3391 detailed release notes this time!
3393 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3394 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3396 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3397 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3398 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3399 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3406 Better guessing of From: header
3408 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3409 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3410 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3411 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3412 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3415 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3417 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3418 guaranteed to match all messages.
3420 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3422 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3423 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3424 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3425 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3426 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3429 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3432 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3433 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3434 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3435 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3440 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3442 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3443 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3444 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3445 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3447 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3449 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3451 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3452 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3453 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3455 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3457 Previously, the user might see:
3459 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3463 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3465 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3466 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3467 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3468 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3470 Emacs client features
3471 ---------------------
3473 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3475 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3476 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3477 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3478 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3479 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3481 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3484 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3485 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3486 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3487 search with the '*' binding.
3489 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3491 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3492 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3495 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3497 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3498 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3499 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3501 Build-system features
3502 ---------------------
3504 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3506 Add support to configure for many standard options
3508 We include actual support for:
3510 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3512 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3514 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3515 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3517 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3518 separate "make install-emacs"
3520 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3522 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3523 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3524 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3526 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3529 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3530 ========================
3532 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3534 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3535 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3537 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3538 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3539 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3540 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3541 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3542 tags from messages in a thread.
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