1 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
2 ===========================
7 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`.
9 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
10 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
13 Command Line Interface
14 ----------------------
16 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`.
18 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes.
20 Fix bug in dump header.
22 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
23 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
24 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
29 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
31 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
32 =========================
37 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`.
39 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
42 Command Line Interface
43 ----------------------
45 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
47 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
48 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
49 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
51 New default output format to 3
53 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
54 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
55 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
56 default format changes.
61 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
63 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
64 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
65 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
66 or tree view to resume.
68 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
69 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
70 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
73 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
74 they were when you postponed in the final message.
78 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
79 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
80 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
81 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
82 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
86 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
87 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
88 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
89 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
90 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
91 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
95 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
96 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
98 Stop display of application/* parts
100 By default gnus displays all application/* parts such as
101 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
102 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
103 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
104 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
105 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
106 application/* add application/* to your customization. If you want
107 to allow application/* then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
110 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
112 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
113 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
114 only tagged the current thread.)
116 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers.
118 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
119 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
120 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
122 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
124 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
125 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
126 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
127 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
128 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
129 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
130 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
132 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
134 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
135 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
136 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
141 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive.
143 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
146 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
148 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
151 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
152 ===========================
157 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
159 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
160 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
161 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
164 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
165 ===========================
167 Command Line Interface
168 ----------------------
170 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
175 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
177 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
178 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
179 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
181 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
182 ===========================
187 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
188 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
190 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
191 ===========================
193 Command Line Interface
194 ----------------------
196 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
198 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
199 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
200 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
205 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
207 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
208 ===========================
210 Command Line Interface
211 ----------------------
213 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
218 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
220 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
221 ===========================
226 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
228 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
229 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
230 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
232 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
234 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
236 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
237 ===========================
242 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
244 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
249 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
251 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
252 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
253 the original colours.
255 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
256 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
258 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
260 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
261 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
262 bug, and hence the test.
264 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
265 =========================
267 General (Xapian 1.4+)
268 ---------------------
270 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
272 Support for single argument date: queries
274 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
276 Support for blocking opens
278 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
279 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
281 Support for named queries
283 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
284 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
285 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
292 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
293 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
294 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
295 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
297 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
299 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
304 Support for compile time options
306 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
307 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
310 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
312 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
313 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
314 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
315 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
316 scripts to ignore it.
321 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
323 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
324 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
325 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
327 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
328 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
329 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
330 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
331 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
332 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
333 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
335 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
336 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
339 Make internal address completion customizable
341 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
342 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
343 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
344 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
347 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
349 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
350 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
351 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
352 completion for the current buffer.
354 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
355 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
356 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
360 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
361 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
362 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
363 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
364 will be added instead.
366 Face customization is easier
368 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
369 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
370 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
371 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
373 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
378 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
383 Go bindings moved to contrib
385 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
387 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
389 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
390 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
392 The same issue occured with sort modes.
394 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
395 ===========================
402 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
403 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
405 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
407 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
409 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
410 ===========================
415 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
417 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
422 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
427 Use `env` to locate perl.
432 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
434 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
436 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
438 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
440 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
441 =========================
448 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
449 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
451 Limited support for S/MIME messages
453 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
454 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
455 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
460 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
461 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
462 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
464 Command Line Interface
465 ----------------------
467 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
469 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
474 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
479 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
481 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
482 parts are now included in replies.
484 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
485 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
486 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
487 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
489 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
491 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
493 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
495 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
496 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
497 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
498 forwards only the current message.
500 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
502 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
503 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
504 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
505 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
506 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
507 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
508 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
509 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
512 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
513 longer generate empty buffers
515 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
516 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
517 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
518 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
519 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
521 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
523 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
526 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
528 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
531 Address completion improvements
533 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
534 you previously configured one, customize the variable
535 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
536 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
537 interactive address completion.
539 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
541 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
542 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
543 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
548 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
549 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
550 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
556 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
557 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
558 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
559 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
560 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
561 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
563 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
564 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
565 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
566 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
567 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
568 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
570 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
571 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
573 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
574 =========================
579 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
582 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
584 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
585 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
586 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
588 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
589 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
591 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
592 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
593 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
595 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
597 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
598 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
599 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
600 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
601 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
602 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
607 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
608 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
611 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
614 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
616 Command Line Interface
617 ----------------------
619 Database revision tracking
621 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
622 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
623 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
624 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
626 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
628 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
629 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
630 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
631 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
632 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
633 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
634 manual page for further information.
639 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
641 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
642 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
644 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
646 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
647 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
648 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
650 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
652 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
654 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
655 customization as well.
657 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
659 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
661 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
663 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
665 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
666 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
667 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
668 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
670 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
672 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
673 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
674 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
675 this variable to 10000.
680 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
681 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
683 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
685 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
686 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
687 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
688 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
689 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
690 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
691 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
692 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
693 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
696 Database revision tracking
698 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
699 query parser and the new function
700 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
702 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
706 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
707 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
708 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
709 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
714 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
716 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
717 ===========================
722 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
724 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
725 ===========================
730 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
732 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
733 =========================
735 Command-Line Interface
736 ----------------------
738 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
740 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
741 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
742 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
744 Path to gpg is now configurable
746 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
747 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
752 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
754 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
759 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
764 Support messages without Message-IDs.
769 Undeprecate single message mboxes
771 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
772 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
774 New error logging facility
776 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
777 output formerly printed to stderr.
779 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
781 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
783 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
785 Fix for rounding of seconds
790 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
792 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
793 docmumentation has been removed.
795 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
797 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
798 some material from the relicensed wiki.
803 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
804 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
805 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
810 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
811 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
812 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
813 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
814 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
815 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
818 git checkout config origin/config
820 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
822 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
823 =========================
828 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
829 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
830 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
831 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
832 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
833 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
834 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
836 Command-Line Interface
837 ----------------------
839 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
841 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
842 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
843 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
844 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
845 script callers should still check the return value.
847 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
849 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
850 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
851 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
852 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
853 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
854 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
855 and returning success even if indexing fails).
857 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
859 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
860 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
861 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
863 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
865 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
866 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
867 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
868 currently unmaintained.
870 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
872 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
873 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
874 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
875 have at least `N` files associated with them.
877 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
879 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
880 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
881 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
882 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
883 count of duplicate addresses.
888 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
890 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
891 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
892 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
895 Improved handling of the unread tag
897 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
898 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
899 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
900 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
901 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
902 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
903 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
905 Expanded default saved search settings
907 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
908 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
910 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
912 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
913 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
914 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
916 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
918 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
919 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
920 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
921 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
922 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
923 the variable for details.
928 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
930 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
931 Representing these independently of the database version number will
932 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
933 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
935 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
937 Previously, library users were required to call
938 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
939 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
940 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
941 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
942 too out of date for that API.
944 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
946 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
947 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
948 atomic section will be aborted.
950 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
951 `notmuch_database_destroy`
953 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
955 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
956 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
957 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
958 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
959 messages into the same thread.
964 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
965 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
966 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
967 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
968 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
969 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
974 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
975 from the config file. Use something like:
979 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
980 "footer": "</body></html>",
989 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
994 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
995 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
996 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
998 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
999 ===========================
1004 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1006 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1008 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1010 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1011 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1013 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1015 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1018 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1019 ===========================
1021 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1026 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1028 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1030 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1032 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1034 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1040 Use --quick when starting emacs
1042 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1044 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1046 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1048 Command-Line Interface
1049 ----------------------
1051 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1052 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1057 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1059 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1060 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1062 Fix for phrase indexing
1064 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1065 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1066 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1071 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1073 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1074 unintentionally removed.
1076 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1077 =========================
1082 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1083 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1084 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1085 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1086 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1087 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1088 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1089 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1090 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1096 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1098 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1099 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1100 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1101 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1102 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1103 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1104 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1105 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1107 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1109 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1110 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1111 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1112 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1115 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1117 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1118 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1119 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1120 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1121 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1122 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1123 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1128 Notmuch database upgrade
1130 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1131 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1132 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1133 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1134 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1135 released version of Notmuch before now.
1137 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1139 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1140 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1141 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1142 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1144 Message header parsing changes
1146 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1147 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1148 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1149 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1150 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1151 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1153 Command-Line Interface
1154 ----------------------
1156 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1158 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1160 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1162 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1164 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1166 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1167 user does not want it.
1169 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1171 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1172 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1173 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1174 support formatted output.
1176 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1178 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1179 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1180 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1188 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1189 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1190 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1191 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1192 `~/.emacs` with these.
1194 Changed format for saved searches
1196 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1197 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1198 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1199 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1202 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1203 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1204 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1205 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1207 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1208 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1209 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1211 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1212 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1213 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1214 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1215 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1217 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1219 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1220 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1221 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1223 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1225 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1226 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1227 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1228 message had been unread).
1230 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1231 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1232 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1233 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1235 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1236 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1237 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1239 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1240 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1241 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1242 to tags already present.
1246 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1247 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1248 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1249 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1250 these differ from each other.
1251 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1253 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1255 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1256 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1257 for these Emacs versions.
1259 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1261 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1262 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1264 Bug fixes for sender identities
1266 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1267 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1268 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1270 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1272 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1273 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1274 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1275 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1277 Reply pushes mark before signature
1279 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1280 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1281 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1283 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1285 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1286 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1292 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1293 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1295 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1296 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1297 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1298 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1300 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1301 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1302 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1303 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1304 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1306 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1308 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1309 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1311 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1312 =========================
1314 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1315 ---------------------------------------
1317 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1318 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1319 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1320 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1321 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1322 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1323 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1327 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1328 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1330 Command-Line Interface
1331 ----------------------
1333 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1335 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1336 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1337 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1338 print for each message.
1340 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1341 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1342 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1343 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1345 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1347 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1348 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1349 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1351 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1353 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1354 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1355 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1356 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1358 `notmuch compact` command
1360 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1361 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1362 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1363 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1364 move the compacted database into place.
1369 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1371 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1372 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1373 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1374 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1375 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1376 and multiple threads.
1378 Using `notmuch-tree`
1380 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1382 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1383 search, show and tree mode itself)
1385 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1388 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1389 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1391 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1393 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1394 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1395 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1396 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1397 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1398 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1399 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1401 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1403 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1404 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1405 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1406 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1407 thread when the search was performed.
1409 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1411 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1412 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1413 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1415 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1417 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1418 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1421 Built-in help improvements
1423 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1424 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1425 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1427 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1429 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1430 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1431 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1433 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1435 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1436 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1438 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1440 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1441 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1442 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1443 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1445 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1447 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1448 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1449 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1450 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1452 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1454 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1455 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1456 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1458 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1460 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1461 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1462 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1464 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1466 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1467 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1468 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1469 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1470 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1472 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1474 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1475 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1476 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1477 the body part of the message.
1482 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1483 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1484 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1486 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1487 =========================
1489 Command-Line Interface
1490 ----------------------
1492 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1494 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1495 folder and notmuch index.
1497 `notmuch count --batch` option
1499 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1500 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1502 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1504 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1505 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1506 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1509 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1511 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1512 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1513 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1514 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1515 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1518 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1520 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1521 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1523 Top level option to specify configuration file
1525 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1526 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1528 Bash command-line completion
1530 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1531 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1532 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1533 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1534 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1535 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1536 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1537 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1538 bash-completion package.
1540 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1545 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1547 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1548 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1549 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1550 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1551 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1552 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1553 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1554 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1556 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1558 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1559 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1560 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1562 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1564 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1565 previous thread in the search results.
1567 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1569 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1570 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1572 Faster search and show
1574 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1575 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1576 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1577 threads should show faster.
1581 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1582 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1583 in question was now removed from this release.
1588 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1589 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1594 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1596 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1597 ===========================
1602 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1604 Internal test framework changes
1605 -------------------------------
1607 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1608 being unimplemented.
1610 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1611 ===========================
1613 Internal test framework changes
1614 -------------------------------
1616 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1617 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1619 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1620 =========================
1625 Date range search support
1627 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1628 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1629 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1630 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1631 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1634 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1636 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1637 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1638 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1639 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1640 but may be removed in a future release.
1642 Command-Line Interface
1643 ----------------------
1645 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1647 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1648 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1650 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1652 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1653 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1654 officially deprecated.
1656 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1658 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1659 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1660 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1662 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1664 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1665 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1668 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1669 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1670 dump/restore format.
1672 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1674 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1675 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1676 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1678 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1680 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1681 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1682 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1684 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1686 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1687 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1688 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1689 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1694 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1696 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1697 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1698 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1699 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1701 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1703 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1704 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1705 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1706 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1707 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1708 the behavior of this, see
1709 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1710 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1712 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1713 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1714 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1716 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1718 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1719 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1722 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1724 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1725 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1726 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1727 simply displayed in place of the message.
1729 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1731 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1732 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1734 Improved text/calendar content handling
1736 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1737 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1738 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1739 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1741 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1743 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1744 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1745 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1746 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1748 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1750 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1751 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1752 for HTML email containing images.
1754 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1756 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1758 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1760 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1763 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1765 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1766 the point where it was.
1768 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1770 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1771 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1772 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1773 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1774 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1776 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1778 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1779 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1780 thread instead of the message id.
1782 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1783 -----------------------------
1785 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1786 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1787 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1788 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1789 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1790 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1791 further details and installation.
1796 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1798 Internal test framework changes
1799 -------------------------------
1801 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1803 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1804 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1805 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1806 can result in buggy behavior.
1808 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1809 =========================
1814 Maildir tag synchronization
1816 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1817 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1818 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1819 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1820 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1821 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1824 Command-Line Interface
1825 ----------------------
1827 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1828 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1829 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1830 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1831 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1837 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1839 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1841 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1842 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1843 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1845 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1847 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1848 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1849 span multiple lines.
1851 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1853 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1854 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1855 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1856 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1857 inside the result or message.
1859 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1861 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1862 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1864 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1865 user-specified formatting
1867 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1868 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1869 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1870 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1871 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1873 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1874 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1876 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1877 ===========================
1882 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1883 compilation error for this contrib package.
1885 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1886 ===========================
1891 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1893 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1894 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1895 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1896 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1898 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1899 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1902 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1903 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1904 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1905 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1908 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1910 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1913 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1914 =========================
1916 Command-Line Interface
1917 ----------------------
1921 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1922 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1923 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1924 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1926 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1927 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1928 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1929 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1933 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1934 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1936 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1937 tag in your query, for example:
1939 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1941 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1942 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1944 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1945 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1947 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1949 Raw show format changes
1951 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1952 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1953 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1954 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1955 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1956 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1957 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1958 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1960 Listing configuration items
1962 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1968 Changes to tagging interface
1970 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1971 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1972 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1973 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1974 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1975 for more information.
1977 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1978 may need to update in custom configurations.
1980 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1982 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1983 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1984 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1985 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1988 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1989 -----------------------------
1991 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1992 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1993 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1994 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1995 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1996 contrib/ from now on.
2001 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2002 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2004 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2005 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2007 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2008 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2009 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2011 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2012 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2014 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2015 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2016 returning the new database object or directory object.
2023 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2024 compatible with go 1.
2026 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2027 =========================
2029 Command-Line Interface
2030 ----------------------
2034 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2035 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2036 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2037 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2039 Mail store folder/file ignore
2041 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2042 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2043 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2045 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2046 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2048 Unified help and manual pages
2050 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2051 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2054 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2056 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2057 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2065 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2066 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2067 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2068 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2070 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2072 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2073 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2075 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2078 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2079 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2080 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2082 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2084 should be changed to:
2086 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2088 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2090 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2091 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2093 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2095 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2096 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2097 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2098 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2099 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2100 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2104 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2105 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2106 of Mailing List Archives.
2108 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2110 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2111 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2114 Show view archiving key binding changes
2116 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2117 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2118 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2119 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2120 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2123 Support text/calendar MIME type
2125 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2128 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2130 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2131 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2132 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2133 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2135 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2137 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2138 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2139 messages blue by default in the search view.
2143 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2144 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2151 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2154 Python bindings changes
2155 -----------------------
2157 Python 3.2 compatibility
2159 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2161 Added missing unicode conversions
2163 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2164 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2165 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2170 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2172 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2173 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2174 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2175 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2176 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2178 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2179 ===========================
2184 Fix error handling in python bindings
2186 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2187 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2188 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2189 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2191 Quote MML tags in replies
2193 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2194 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2195 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2196 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2197 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2198 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2199 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2200 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2202 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2203 =========================
2205 Command-Line Interface
2206 ----------------------
2210 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2211 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2212 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2213 importing new messages into the database.
2215 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2217 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2218 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2219 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2224 Automatic tag query optimization
2226 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2227 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2228 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2230 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2232 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2233 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2234 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2239 Reduction of memory leaks
2241 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2242 and fixed in this release.
2249 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2250 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2251 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2254 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2256 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2257 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2258 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2261 Improvements in saved search management
2263 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2264 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2265 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2267 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2269 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2270 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2271 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2273 New face for crypto parts headers
2275 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2276 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2277 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2280 Use space as default thousands separator
2282 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2283 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2284 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2286 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2287 buttonized id: links
2289 New function notmuch-show-advance
2291 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2292 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2293 be bound to SPC with:
2295 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2297 Various performance improvements
2302 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2303 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2306 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2307 ===========================
2312 Fix crash in python bindings
2314 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2315 for some, but not all users.
2317 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2318 ===========================
2323 Fix `--help` argument
2325 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2326 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2327 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2329 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2330 =========================
2332 New build and testing features
2333 ------------------------------
2335 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2336 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2337 prerequisites is improved.
2339 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2341 New command-line features
2342 -------------------------
2344 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2346 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2347 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2350 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2352 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2353 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2354 favour of using stdout.
2356 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2358 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2359 limit the number of results shown.
2361 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2363 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2364 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2367 New emacs UI features
2368 ---------------------
2370 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2372 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2373 starting with "tag:".
2375 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2377 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2378 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2380 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2382 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2384 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2386 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2387 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2392 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2394 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2396 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2397 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2398 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2399 requires a database rebuild:
2401 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2402 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2404 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2406 New collection of add-on tools
2407 ------------------------------
2409 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2410 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2411 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2414 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2416 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2417 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2418 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2420 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2421 ========================
2423 New, general features
2424 ---------------------
2426 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2428 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2429 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2430 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2431 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2432 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2439 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2440 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2442 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2446 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2447 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2448 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2451 Python bindings changes
2452 -----------------------
2454 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2456 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2457 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2458 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2459 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2460 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2461 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2463 Ruby bindings changes
2464 ---------------------
2466 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2467 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2468 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2469 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2474 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2476 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2477 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2479 Reply formatting cleanup
2480 ------------------------
2482 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2483 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2485 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2486 ========================
2488 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2490 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2491 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2492 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2493 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2496 Improved Build system portability
2498 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2499 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2500 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2502 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2504 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2506 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2508 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2509 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2510 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2512 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2513 ========================
2515 Vim interface improvements
2516 --------------------------
2518 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2520 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2521 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2522 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2523 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2524 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2526 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2528 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2529 * fix compose temp file name
2531 Python Bindings changes
2532 -----------------------
2534 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2536 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2537 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2539 Build-System improvements
2540 -------------------------
2542 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2544 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2547 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2548 ==========================
2553 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2555 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2556 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2558 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2559 =======================
2561 New, general features
2562 ---------------------
2564 Folder-based searching
2566 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2567 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2568 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2572 For example, one might use things such as:
2578 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2579 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2581 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2582 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2583 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2584 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2586 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2587 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2588 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2591 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2592 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2594 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2596 Support for PGP/MIME
2598 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2599 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2600 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2602 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2604 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2605 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2607 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2608 notmuch will receive these tags.
2610 New command-line features
2611 -------------------------
2613 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2615 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2616 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2618 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2620 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2621 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2622 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2624 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2626 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2627 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2628 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2629 which parts a signature part applies).
2631 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2633 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2634 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2635 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2636 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2637 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2640 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2642 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2643 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2644 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2645 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2646 by translating it internally to the new call.
2648 Performance improvements
2649 ------------------------
2651 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2653 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2654 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2655 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2657 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2658 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2660 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2662 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2663 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2664 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2666 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2667 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2668 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2669 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2671 Faster initial indexing
2673 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2674 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2675 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2677 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2679 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2680 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2681 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2682 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2684 New emacs-interface features
2685 ----------------------------
2687 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2689 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2690 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2691 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2692 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2693 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2694 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2696 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2698 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2699 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2700 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2701 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2703 User-selectable From address
2705 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2706 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2707 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2708 will prompt for the from address to use.
2710 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2711 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2712 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2714 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2715 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2716 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2719 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2721 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2722 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2724 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2726 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2728 ----- Original Message -----
2730 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2731 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2732 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2733 citations work much like conventional citations.
2735 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2737 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2738 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2739 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2740 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2741 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2743 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2744 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2746 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2748 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2749 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2750 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2752 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2754 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2755 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2756 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2757 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2758 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2760 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2762 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2765 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2767 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2769 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2771 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2774 Vim interface improvements
2775 --------------------------
2777 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2779 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2780 * Implementing archive in show view
2781 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2782 * Add delete commands
2785 Bindings improvements
2786 ---------------------
2788 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2790 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2791 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2793 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2795 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2799 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2800 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2801 `list(Messages)` works now
2802 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2804 These allow, for example:
2806 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2808 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2810 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2816 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2818 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2821 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2823 New build-system features
2824 -------------------------
2826 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2828 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2829 the configure script from some other directory:
2836 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2838 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2839 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2840 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2841 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2842 manual invocation of configure.
2844 New test-suite feature
2845 ----------------------
2847 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2849 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2850 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2851 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2852 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2853 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2856 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2858 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2859 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2860 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2861 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2862 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2863 are updated to take advantage of this.
2865 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2867 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2868 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2869 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2870 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2876 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2878 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2879 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2880 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2882 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2884 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2886 to:user@elsewhere.com
2888 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2890 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2892 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2894 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2895 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2896 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2899 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2900 from the Received headers in some cases
2902 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2903 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2905 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2907 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2909 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2911 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2912 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2913 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2915 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2916 -------------------------
2918 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2920 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2921 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2922 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2924 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2926 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2927 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2928 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2931 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2933 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2934 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2935 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2936 fixed to avoid this bug.
2938 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2940 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2941 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2943 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2944 ========================
2946 New, general features
2947 ---------------------
2949 Maildir-flag synchronization
2951 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2952 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2961 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2963 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2964 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2965 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2966 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2968 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2969 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2970 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2971 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2974 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2976 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2977 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2978 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2980 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2981 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2983 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2984 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2986 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2987 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2988 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2990 New library features
2991 --------------------
2993 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2995 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2996 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2997 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2998 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3000 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3001 message with the new function:
3003 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3005 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3006 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3007 over all available filenames for a given message.
3009 New command-line features
3010 -------------------------
3012 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3014 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3015 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3016 access to the mail store itself.
3018 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3019 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3020 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3021 name of a script containing:
3023 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3025 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3026 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3032 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3034 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3036 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3038 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3039 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3040 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3041 now produces nothing).
3043 Emacs interface improvements
3044 ----------------------------
3046 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3048 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3050 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3052 Display current thread subject in a header line
3054 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3056 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3058 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3059 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3060 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3061 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3062 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3063 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3064 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3066 Vim interface improvements
3067 --------------------------
3069 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3071 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3072 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3078 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3080 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3081 ========================
3083 New command-line features
3084 -------------------------
3086 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3088 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3089 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3090 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3092 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3093 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3094 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3095 scripts. For example:
3097 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3098 <operations-on> "$file"
3101 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3103 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3104 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3105 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3106 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3107 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3108 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3110 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3112 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3113 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3114 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3115 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3117 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3119 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3120 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3121 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3122 default rather than Bcc.
3124 New library features
3125 --------------------
3127 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3129 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3130 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3135 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3137 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3138 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3139 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3140 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3141 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3142 notmuch customize interface.
3144 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3146 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3147 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3148 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3149 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3151 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3153 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3154 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3155 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3156 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3158 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3160 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3161 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3162 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3163 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3164 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3165 notmuch customize interface.
3167 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3169 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3170 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3171 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3172 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3173 notmuch customize interface.
3175 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3177 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3178 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3179 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3180 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3183 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3185 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3186 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3187 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3190 New build-system features
3191 -------------------------
3193 Various portability fixes have been applied
3195 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3196 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3197 more portable than ever before.
3199 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3201 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3202 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3203 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3205 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3206 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3207 automatically run ldconfig.
3209 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3210 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3211 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3213 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3214 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3215 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3216 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3218 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3220 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3221 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3222 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3223 used in the resulting Makefile.
3225 New test-suite features
3226 -----------------------
3228 New modularization of test suite
3230 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3231 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3232 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3233 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3234 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3235 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3236 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3237 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3239 New testing of emacs interface
3241 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3242 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3243 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3244 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3245 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3246 database via the FCC setting.
3251 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3253 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3254 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3255 persistent error of the form:
3257 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3259 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3260 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3262 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3264 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3265 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3266 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3268 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3270 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3271 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3272 parsing the notmuch results).
3274 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3276 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3279 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3280 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3281 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3286 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3288 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3289 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3290 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3291 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3292 the emacs interface.
3294 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3296 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3297 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3298 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3300 Python-binding fixes
3301 --------------------
3303 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3305 Debian-specific fixes
3306 ---------------------
3308 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3310 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3311 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3312 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3315 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3316 ==========================
3321 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3323 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3324 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3325 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3326 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3328 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3330 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3331 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3332 want notmuch to crash.
3337 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3339 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3340 directory does not exist
3345 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3347 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3348 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3350 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3351 ========================
3353 New command-line features
3354 -------------------------
3356 User-configurable tags for new messages
3358 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3359 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3360 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3361 to specify this value.
3363 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3365 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3366 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3367 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3369 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3371 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3372 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3374 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3376 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3377 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3378 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3379 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3380 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3383 Indication of author names that match a search
3385 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3386 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3387 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3388 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3389 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3390 messages in the thread are listed first.
3392 New: Python bindings
3393 --------------------
3395 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3396 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3397 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3398 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3400 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3401 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3402 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3405 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3406 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3407 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3409 Emacs interface improvements
3410 ----------------------------
3412 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3414 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3415 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3416 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3417 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3418 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3419 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3420 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3421 but without any of the disadvantages).
3423 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3424 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3425 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3428 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3429 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3430 instead running something like:
3432 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3434 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3435 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3436 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3439 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3441 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3442 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3443 tweaked by the user.
3445 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3446 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3447 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3450 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3451 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3452 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3455 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3457 This support currently relies on an external program,
3458 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3459 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3460 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3461 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3462 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3465 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3466 notmuch) is available via:
3468 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3470 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3471 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3472 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3474 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3476 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3477 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3478 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3479 making this automatic in a future release.
3481 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3483 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3484 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3485 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3486 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3487 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3488 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3491 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3493 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3494 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3495 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3497 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3499 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3500 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3501 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3503 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3504 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3505 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3506 other representation.
3508 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3509 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3512 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3514 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3515 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3516 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3518 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3519 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3520 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3522 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3524 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3525 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3526 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3527 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3528 to display the search result.
3530 More flexible handling of header visibility
3532 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3533 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3534 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3535 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3536 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3537 with the 'h' keybinding.
3539 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3540 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3541 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3543 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3545 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3547 Customizable formatting of search results
3549 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3550 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3551 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3553 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3555 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3557 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3562 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3564 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3565 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3566 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3567 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3573 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3575 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3576 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3578 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3580 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3581 accept are now all accepted.
3586 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3588 Better display of output from failed tests
3590 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3591 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3593 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3594 ========================
3596 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3597 detailed release notes this time!
3599 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3600 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3602 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3603 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3604 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3605 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3612 Better guessing of From: header
3614 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3615 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3616 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3617 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3618 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3621 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3623 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3624 guaranteed to match all messages.
3626 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3628 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3629 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3630 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3631 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3632 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3635 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3638 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3639 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3640 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3641 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3646 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3648 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3649 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3650 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3651 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3653 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3655 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3657 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3658 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3659 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3661 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3663 Previously, the user might see:
3665 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3669 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3671 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3672 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3673 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3674 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3676 Emacs client features
3677 ---------------------
3679 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3681 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3682 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3683 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3684 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3685 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3687 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3690 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3691 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3692 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3693 search with the '*' binding.
3695 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3697 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3698 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3701 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3703 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3704 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3705 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3707 Build-system features
3708 ---------------------
3710 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3712 Add support to configure for many standard options
3714 We include actual support for:
3716 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3718 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3720 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3721 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3723 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3724 separate "make install-emacs"
3726 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3728 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3729 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3730 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3732 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3735 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3736 ========================
3738 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3740 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3741 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3743 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3744 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3745 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3746 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3747 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3748 tags from messages in a thread.
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