1 Notmuch 0.38.1 (2023-10-26)
2 ===========================
7 Report parse errors in config files.
12 Fix image toggling for Emacs >= 29.1.
17 Fix syntax error in script.
19 Notmuch 0.38 (2023-09-12)
20 =========================
25 Support relative lastmod queries (see notmuch-sexp-queries(7) and
26 notmuch-search-terms(7) for details).
28 Support indexing of designated attachments as text (see
29 notmuch-config(1) for details).
34 Add options --offset and --limit to notmuch-show(1).
39 New commands notmuch-search-edit-search and notmuch-tree-edit-search.
41 Introduce notmuch-tree-outline-mode.
43 Some compatibility fixes for Emacs 29. At least one issue (hiding
44 images) remains in 0.38.
46 Support completion when piping to external command.
48 Fix regression in updating tag display introduced by 0.37.
53 Fix bug creating database when database.path is not set.
55 Incremental performance improvements for message deletion.
57 Catch Xapian exceptions when deleting messages.
59 Sync removed message properties to the database.
61 Replace use of thread-unsafe Query::MatchAll in the infix query
67 Be more careful when clearing the results directory.
72 Use `database_open_with_config`, and provide compatible path search
75 Bugfix for query.get_sort
80 Support testing installed version of notmuch.
82 Adapt to some breaking changes in glib handling of init files.
84 Replace OpenPGP key used in test suite.
89 Update signatures for performance test corpus.
91 Notmuch 0.37 (2022-08-21)
92 =========================
97 Fix uninitialized field in message objects.
99 Improve exception handling and error propagation for message objects.
104 Add one sided lastmod ranges for sexp queries.
106 Expand macro parameters inside regex and wildcard modifiers.
108 Command Line Interface
109 ----------------------
111 `notmuch help` now works for external commands.
113 `NOTMUCH_CONFIG` is now passed to external commands and hooks.
115 Promote the development tool `nmbug` to a user facing tool
116 `notmuch-git`. See notmuch-git(1) for details.
121 The function `notmuch-mua-mail` now moves point depending on the
124 Restrict what mime types are inlined in replies and on refresh.
126 The functions in notmuch-query.el are now obsolete and may be removed
127 in a future version of Notmuch.
129 Add some controls for lazy display of message bodies (See "Dealing
130 with large messages and threads" in the notmuch-emacs documentation).
132 Allow the user to select (with '%') a different duplicate message file
135 Use `message-dont-reply-to-names` in `notmuch-message-mode`.
137 Support custom header-line format for notmuch-show mode.
139 Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
140 =========================
145 Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
146 allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
147 appropropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
149 Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
150 bracketed sub-expressions.
152 Command Line Interface
153 ----------------------
155 Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
156 input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
157 calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
159 Python (CFFI) Bindings
160 ----------------------
162 Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
163 matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
169 Reorganize documention for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
175 Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
176 "notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
182 Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
184 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
185 -----------------------------
187 The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
188 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
189 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
190 for more information.
192 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
193 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
196 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
197 =========================
202 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
204 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
206 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
207 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
209 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
211 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
216 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
219 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
221 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
222 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
227 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
229 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
232 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
233 third party completion frameworks.
235 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
237 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
239 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
240 signed and/or encrypted messages.
242 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
245 Make header line in show buffers optional.
247 Add customizable names for search buffers.
252 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
254 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
255 installed version of notmuch.
257 Ignore more configure options.
262 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
265 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
270 Add `matched` property to message objects.
272 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
273 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
279 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
281 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
282 ===========================
287 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
288 xapian/ subdirectory.
290 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
291 --------------------------
293 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
294 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
296 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
297 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
299 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
302 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
303 ===========================
308 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
309 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
310 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
312 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
313 --------------------------
315 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
316 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
318 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
319 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
320 and database location options as the library does.
322 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
324 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
325 ===========================
330 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
331 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
332 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
333 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
334 status returns for the same 3 functions.
336 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
337 =========================
342 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
343 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
344 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
345 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
346 s-expression query support.
351 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
356 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
358 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
360 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
362 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
364 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
365 ===========================
370 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
372 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
373 ===========================
378 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
379 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
382 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
383 =========================
388 Correct documentation about transactions.
390 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
391 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
393 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
398 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
404 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
405 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
406 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
408 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
410 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
412 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
414 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
416 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
418 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
421 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
426 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
427 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
428 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
429 split, following an old library API change.
434 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
439 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
441 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
443 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
444 ===========================
449 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
452 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
455 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
456 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
461 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
463 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
464 ===========================
469 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
475 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
480 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
485 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
490 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
491 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
493 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
494 ===========================
499 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
500 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
501 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
503 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
504 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
505 database in a pre-new hook.
507 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
508 default worked only in "notmuch config".
513 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
514 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
516 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
517 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
518 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
520 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
521 =========================
526 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
527 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
528 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
529 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
530 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
531 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
532 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
533 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
534 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
535 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
536 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
541 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
542 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
544 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
545 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
546 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
547 - `notmuch_config_get`
549 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
550 now exposed (and generalized).
552 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
553 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
554 session has been fixed.
556 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
557 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
562 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
563 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
565 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
566 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
571 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
572 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
573 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
574 when prompting for senders.
576 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
577 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
580 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
582 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
584 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
585 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
586 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
587 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
588 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
589 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
590 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
592 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
593 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
595 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
596 you should change it to:
597 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
599 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
600 ===========================
605 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
610 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
612 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
613 ===========================
618 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
623 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
628 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
630 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
631 ===========================
636 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
637 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
639 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
640 ===========================
645 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
650 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
651 with a C++ header for some compilers.
653 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
655 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
656 =========================
661 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
662 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
663 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
665 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
667 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
669 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
671 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
674 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
676 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
677 search, show and tree mode)
679 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
682 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
685 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
686 always be newest first.
691 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
692 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
693 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
699 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
700 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
701 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
702 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
704 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
705 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
706 non-status providing versions.
708 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
709 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
711 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
712 promised in the documentation.
717 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
718 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
719 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
724 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
725 development version).
730 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
735 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
737 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
738 =========================
743 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
744 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
745 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
748 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
754 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
755 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
756 notmuch-properties(7)).
761 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
762 has protected headers (see
763 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
764 notmuch-properties(7)).
769 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
771 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
772 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
778 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
781 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
782 ===========================
787 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
789 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
794 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
796 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
797 ===========================
802 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
803 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
805 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
806 ===========================
811 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
813 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
814 =========================
819 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
820 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
823 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
824 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
825 the set of headers to be indexed.
827 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
830 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
831 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
832 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
835 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
836 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
837 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
839 Command Line Interface
840 ----------------------
842 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
845 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
847 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
848 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
849 more details about what is included there. This status includes
850 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
855 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
856 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
858 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
860 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
862 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
864 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
866 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
869 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
871 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
872 and may be removed in a future release.
874 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
880 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
882 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
883 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
888 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
889 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
890 cryptography support.
895 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
896 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
897 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
899 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
900 ===========================
902 Command line interface
903 ----------------------
905 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
906 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
908 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
909 ===========================
914 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
915 by message properties.
920 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
922 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
923 ===========================
928 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
933 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
934 now needed to build this documentation.
936 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
937 ===========================
942 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
943 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
945 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
946 =========================
953 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
954 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
955 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
956 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
957 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
960 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
962 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
963 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
964 correct encoding for such messages.
966 Command Line Interface
967 ----------------------
969 Support relative database paths
971 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
972 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
973 to $HOME of the invoking user.
978 Improve stderr handling
980 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
981 needed on e.g. macOS.
983 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
985 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
990 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
991 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
997 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
998 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
1004 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
1005 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
1008 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
1009 =========================
1014 Add support for thread:{} queries
1016 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
1017 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
1018 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
1020 Command Line Interface
1021 ----------------------
1023 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
1025 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
1027 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
1029 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
1030 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
1031 does not have to be available during message receipt.
1036 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
1042 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
1043 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
1045 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
1046 ===========================
1051 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
1053 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
1054 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
1055 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
1057 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
1059 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
1060 related abort in `notmuch show`.
1062 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
1063 ===========================
1068 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
1069 better late than never.
1072 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
1073 =========================
1075 Command Line Interface
1076 ----------------------
1078 Support for re-indexing existing messages
1080 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
1081 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
1082 change the way specific messages are indexed.
1084 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
1085 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
1086 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
1088 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
1090 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
1092 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
1094 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
1095 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
1096 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
1097 the setting of `new.tags`.
1099 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
1101 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
1103 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
1105 This inserts into the top level folder.
1107 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
1109 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
1111 New option --output=address for notmuch address
1113 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
1115 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
1117 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
1118 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
1119 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
1121 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
1126 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
1128 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
1129 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
1130 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
1131 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
1132 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
1133 config set index.decrypt true".
1135 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
1136 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
1137 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
1138 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
1139 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
1140 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
1141 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
1142 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
1144 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
1145 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
1146 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
1147 this feature without considering the security of your index.
1152 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
1154 Use make-process when available
1156 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
1157 notmuch command without using temporary files.
1162 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
1164 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
1165 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
1166 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
1167 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
1169 New functions to count files
1171 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
1172 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
1174 New function to remove properties
1176 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
1177 drop all properties with a common pattern:
1178 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1180 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1182 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1183 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1184 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1186 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1188 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1189 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1190 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1191 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1192 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1199 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1200 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1201 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1207 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1209 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1210 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1212 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1214 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1216 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1218 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1223 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1224 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1226 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1227 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1228 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1229 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1230 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1231 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1236 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1238 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1239 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1240 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1241 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1243 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1244 ===========================
1249 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1250 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1253 Command Line Interface
1254 ----------------------
1256 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1257 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1260 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1261 ===========================
1263 Command Line Interface
1264 ----------------------
1266 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1267 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1272 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1275 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1276 ===========================
1281 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1284 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1285 =========================
1290 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1292 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1294 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1296 Command Line Interface
1297 ----------------------
1299 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1301 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1306 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1308 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1309 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1312 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1317 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1319 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1320 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1322 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1324 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1325 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1328 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1330 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1332 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1334 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1335 ===========================
1337 Command Line Interface
1338 ----------------------
1340 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1345 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1347 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1348 ===========================
1353 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1355 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1356 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1359 Command Line Interface
1360 ----------------------
1362 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1364 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1366 Fix bug in dump header
1368 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1369 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1370 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1375 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1377 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1378 =========================
1383 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1385 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1388 Command Line Interface
1389 ----------------------
1391 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1393 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1394 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1395 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1397 New default output format to 3
1399 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1400 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1401 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1402 default format changes.
1407 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1409 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1410 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1411 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1412 or tree view to resume.
1414 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1415 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1416 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1419 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1420 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1424 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1425 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1426 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1427 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1428 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1432 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1433 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1434 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1435 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1436 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1437 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1441 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1442 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1444 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1446 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1447 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1448 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1449 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1450 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1451 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1452 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1453 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1456 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1458 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1459 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1460 only tagged the current thread.)
1462 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1464 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1465 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1466 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1468 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1470 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1471 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1472 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1473 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1474 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1475 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1476 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1478 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1480 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1481 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1482 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1487 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1489 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1492 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1494 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1497 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1498 ===========================
1503 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1505 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1506 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1507 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1510 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1511 ===========================
1513 Command Line Interface
1514 ----------------------
1516 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1521 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1523 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1524 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1525 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1527 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1528 ===========================
1533 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1534 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1536 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1537 ===========================
1539 Command Line Interface
1540 ----------------------
1542 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1544 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1545 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1546 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1551 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1553 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1554 ===========================
1556 Command Line Interface
1557 ----------------------
1559 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1564 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1566 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1567 ===========================
1572 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1574 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1575 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1576 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1578 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1580 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1582 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1583 ===========================
1588 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1590 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1595 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1597 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1598 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1599 the original colours.
1601 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1602 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1604 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1606 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1607 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1608 bug, and hence the test.
1610 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1611 =========================
1613 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1614 ---------------------
1616 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1618 Support for single argument date: queries
1620 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1622 Support for blocking opens
1624 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1625 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1627 Support for named queries
1629 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1630 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1631 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1636 Message property API
1638 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1639 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1640 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1641 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1643 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1645 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1650 Support for compile time options
1652 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1653 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1656 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1658 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1659 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1660 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1661 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1662 scripts to ignore it.
1667 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1669 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1670 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1671 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1673 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1674 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1675 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1676 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1677 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1678 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1679 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1681 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1682 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1685 Make internal address completion customizable
1687 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1688 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1689 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1690 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1693 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1695 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1696 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1697 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1698 completion for the current buffer.
1700 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1701 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1702 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1706 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1707 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1708 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1709 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1710 will be added instead.
1712 Face customization is easier
1714 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1715 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1716 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1717 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1719 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1724 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1729 Go bindings moved to contrib
1731 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1733 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1735 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1736 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1738 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1740 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1741 ===========================
1748 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1749 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1751 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1753 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1755 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1756 ===========================
1761 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1763 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1768 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1773 Use `env` to locate perl.
1778 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1780 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1782 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1784 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1786 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1787 =========================
1794 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1795 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1797 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1799 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1800 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1801 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1806 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1807 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1808 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1810 Command Line Interface
1811 ----------------------
1813 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1815 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1820 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1825 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1827 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1828 parts are now included in replies.
1830 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1831 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1832 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1833 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1835 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1837 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1839 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1841 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1842 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1843 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1844 forwards only the current message.
1846 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1848 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1849 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1850 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1851 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1852 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1853 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1854 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1855 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1858 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1859 longer generate empty buffers
1861 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1862 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1863 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1864 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1865 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1867 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1869 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1872 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1874 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1877 Address completion improvements
1879 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1880 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1881 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1882 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1883 interactive address completion.
1885 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1887 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1888 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1889 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1894 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1895 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1896 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1902 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1903 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1904 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1905 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1906 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1907 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1909 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1910 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1911 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1912 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1913 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1914 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1916 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1917 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1919 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1920 =========================
1925 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1928 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1930 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1931 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1932 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1934 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1935 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1937 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1938 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1939 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1941 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1943 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1944 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1945 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1946 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1947 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1948 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1953 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1954 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1957 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1958 option to configure.
1960 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1962 Command Line Interface
1963 ----------------------
1965 Database revision tracking
1967 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1968 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1969 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1970 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1972 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1974 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1975 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1976 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1977 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1978 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1979 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1980 manual page for further information.
1985 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1987 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1988 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1990 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1992 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1993 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1994 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1996 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1998 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
2000 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
2001 customization as well.
2003 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
2005 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
2007 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
2009 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
2011 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
2012 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
2013 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
2014 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2016 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
2018 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
2019 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
2020 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
2021 this variable to 10000.
2026 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
2027 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
2029 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
2031 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
2032 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
2033 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
2034 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
2035 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
2036 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
2037 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
2038 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
2039 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
2042 Database revision tracking
2044 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
2045 query parser and the new function
2046 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
2048 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
2050 Deprecated functions
2052 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
2053 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
2054 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
2055 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
2060 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
2062 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
2063 ===========================
2068 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
2070 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
2071 ===========================
2076 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
2078 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
2079 =========================
2081 Command-Line Interface
2082 ----------------------
2084 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
2086 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
2087 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
2088 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
2090 Path to gpg is now configurable
2092 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
2093 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
2098 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
2100 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
2105 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
2110 Support messages without Message-IDs.
2115 Undeprecate single message mboxes
2117 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
2118 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
2120 New error logging facility
2122 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
2123 output formerly printed to stderr.
2125 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
2127 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
2129 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
2131 Fix for rounding of seconds
2136 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
2138 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
2139 documentation has been removed.
2141 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
2143 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
2144 some material from the relicensed wiki.
2149 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
2150 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
2151 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
2156 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
2157 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
2158 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
2159 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
2160 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
2161 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
2164 git checkout config origin/config
2166 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
2168 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2169 =========================
2174 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
2175 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
2176 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
2177 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
2178 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
2179 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2180 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2182 Command-Line Interface
2183 ----------------------
2185 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2187 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2188 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2189 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2190 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2191 script callers should still check the return value.
2193 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2195 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2196 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2197 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2198 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2199 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2200 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2201 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2203 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2205 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2206 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2207 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2209 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2211 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2212 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2213 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2214 currently unmaintained.
2216 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2218 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2219 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2220 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2221 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2223 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2225 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2226 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2227 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2228 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2229 count of duplicate addresses.
2234 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2236 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2237 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2238 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2241 Improved handling of the unread tag
2243 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2244 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2245 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2246 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2247 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2248 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2249 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2251 Expanded default saved search settings
2253 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2254 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2256 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2258 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2259 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2260 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2262 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2264 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2265 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2266 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2267 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2268 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2269 the variable for details.
2274 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2276 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2277 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2278 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2279 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2281 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2283 Previously, library users were required to call
2284 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2285 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2286 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2287 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2288 too out of date for that API.
2290 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2292 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2293 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2294 atomic section will be aborted.
2296 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2297 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2299 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2301 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2302 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2303 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2304 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2305 messages into the same thread.
2310 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2311 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2312 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2313 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2314 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2315 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2320 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2321 from the config file. Use something like:
2325 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2326 "footer": "</body></html>",
2335 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2340 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2341 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2342 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2344 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2345 ===========================
2350 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2352 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2354 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2356 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2357 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2359 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2361 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2364 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2365 ===========================
2367 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2372 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2374 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2376 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2378 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2380 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2386 Use --quick when starting emacs
2388 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2390 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2392 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2394 Command-Line Interface
2395 ----------------------
2397 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2398 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2403 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2405 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2406 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2408 Fix for phrase indexing
2410 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2411 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2412 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2417 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2419 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2420 unintentionally removed.
2422 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2423 =========================
2428 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2429 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2430 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2431 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2432 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2433 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2434 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2435 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2436 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2442 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2444 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2445 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2446 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2447 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2448 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2449 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2450 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2451 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2453 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2455 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2456 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2457 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2458 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2461 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2463 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2464 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2465 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2466 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2467 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2468 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2469 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2474 Notmuch database upgrade
2476 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2477 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2478 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2479 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2480 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2481 released version of Notmuch before now.
2483 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2485 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2486 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2487 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2488 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2490 Message header parsing changes
2492 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2493 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2494 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2495 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2496 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2497 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2499 Command-Line Interface
2500 ----------------------
2502 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2504 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2506 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2508 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2510 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2512 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2513 user does not want it.
2515 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2517 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2518 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2519 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2520 support formatted output.
2522 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2524 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2525 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2526 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2534 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2535 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2536 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2537 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2538 `~/.emacs` with these.
2540 Changed format for saved searches
2542 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2543 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2544 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2545 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2548 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2549 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2550 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2551 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2553 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2554 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2555 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2557 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2558 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2559 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2560 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2561 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2563 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2565 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2566 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2567 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2569 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2571 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2572 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2573 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2574 message had been unread).
2576 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2577 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2578 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2579 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2581 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2582 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2583 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2585 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2586 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2587 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2588 to tags already present.
2592 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2593 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2594 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2595 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2596 these differ from each other.
2597 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2599 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2601 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2602 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2603 for these Emacs versions.
2605 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2607 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2608 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2610 Bug fixes for sender identities
2612 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2613 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2614 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2616 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2618 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2619 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2620 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2621 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2623 Reply pushes mark before signature
2625 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2626 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2627 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2629 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2631 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2632 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2638 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2639 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2641 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2642 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2643 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2644 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2646 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2647 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2648 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2649 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2650 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2652 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2654 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2655 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2657 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2658 =========================
2660 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2661 ---------------------------------------
2663 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2664 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2665 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2666 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2667 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2668 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2669 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2673 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2674 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2676 Command-Line Interface
2677 ----------------------
2679 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2681 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2682 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2683 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2684 print for each message.
2686 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2687 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2688 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2689 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2691 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2693 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2694 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2695 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2697 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2699 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2700 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2701 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2702 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2704 `notmuch compact` command
2706 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2707 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2708 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2709 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2710 move the compacted database into place.
2715 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2717 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2718 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2719 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2720 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2721 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2722 and multiple threads.
2724 Using `notmuch-tree`
2726 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2728 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2729 search, show and tree mode itself)
2731 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2734 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2735 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2737 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2739 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2740 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2741 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2742 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2743 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2744 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2745 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2747 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2749 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2750 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2751 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2752 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2753 thread when the search was performed.
2755 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2757 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2758 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2759 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2761 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2763 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2764 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2767 Built-in help improvements
2769 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2770 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2771 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2773 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2775 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2776 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2777 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2779 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2781 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2782 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2784 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2786 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2787 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2788 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2789 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2791 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2793 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2794 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2795 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2796 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2798 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2800 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2801 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2802 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2804 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2806 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2807 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2808 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2810 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2812 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2813 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2814 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2815 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2816 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2818 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2820 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2821 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2822 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2823 the body part of the message.
2828 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2829 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2830 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2832 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2833 =========================
2835 Command-Line Interface
2836 ----------------------
2838 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2840 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2841 folder and notmuch index.
2843 `notmuch count --batch` option
2845 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2846 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2848 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2850 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2851 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2852 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2855 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2857 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2858 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2859 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2860 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2861 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2864 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2866 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2867 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2869 Top level option to specify configuration file
2871 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2872 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2874 Bash command-line completion
2876 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2877 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2878 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2879 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2880 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2881 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2882 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2883 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2884 bash-completion package.
2886 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2891 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2893 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2894 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2895 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2896 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2897 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2898 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2899 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2900 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2902 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2904 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2905 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2906 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2908 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2910 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2911 previous thread in the search results.
2913 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2915 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2916 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2918 Faster search and show
2920 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2921 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2922 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2923 threads should show faster.
2927 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2928 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2929 in question was now removed from this release.
2934 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2935 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2940 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2942 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2943 ===========================
2948 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2950 Internal test framework changes
2951 -------------------------------
2953 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2954 being unimplemented.
2956 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2957 ===========================
2959 Internal test framework changes
2960 -------------------------------
2962 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2963 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2965 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2966 =========================
2971 Date range search support
2973 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2974 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2975 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2976 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2977 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2980 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2982 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2983 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2984 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2985 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2986 but may be removed in a future release.
2988 Command-Line Interface
2989 ----------------------
2991 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2993 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2994 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2996 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2998 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2999 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
3000 officially deprecated.
3002 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
3004 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
3005 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
3006 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
3008 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
3010 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
3011 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
3014 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
3015 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
3016 dump/restore format.
3018 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
3020 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
3021 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
3022 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
3024 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
3026 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
3027 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
3028 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
3030 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
3032 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
3033 output separated by null characters rather than newline
3034 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
3035 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
3040 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
3042 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
3043 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
3044 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
3045 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
3047 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
3049 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
3050 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
3051 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
3052 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
3053 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
3054 the behavior of this, see
3055 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
3056 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
3058 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
3059 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
3060 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
3062 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
3064 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
3065 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
3068 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
3070 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
3071 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
3072 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
3073 simply displayed in place of the message.
3075 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
3077 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
3078 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
3080 Improved text/calendar content handling
3082 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
3083 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
3084 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
3085 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
3087 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
3089 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
3090 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
3091 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
3092 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
3094 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
3096 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
3097 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
3098 for HTML email containing images.
3100 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
3102 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
3104 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
3106 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
3109 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
3111 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
3112 the point where it was.
3114 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
3116 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
3117 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
3118 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
3119 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
3120 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
3122 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
3124 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
3125 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
3126 thread instead of the message id.
3128 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
3129 -----------------------------
3131 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
3132 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
3133 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
3134 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
3135 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
3136 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
3137 further details and installation.
3142 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
3144 Internal test framework changes
3145 -------------------------------
3147 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
3149 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
3150 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
3151 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
3152 can result in buggy behavior.
3154 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
3155 =========================
3160 Maildir tag synchronization
3162 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
3163 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
3164 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
3165 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
3166 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
3167 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
3170 Command-Line Interface
3171 ----------------------
3173 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
3174 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
3175 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
3176 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
3177 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3183 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3185 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3187 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3188 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3189 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3191 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3193 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3194 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3195 span multiple lines.
3197 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3199 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3200 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3201 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3202 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3203 inside the result or message.
3205 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3207 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3208 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3210 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3211 user-specified formatting
3213 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3214 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3215 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3216 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3217 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3219 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3220 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3222 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3223 ===========================
3228 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3229 compilation error for this contrib package.
3231 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3232 ===========================
3237 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3239 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3240 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3241 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3242 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3244 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3245 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3248 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3249 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3250 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3251 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3254 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3256 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3259 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3260 =========================
3262 Command-Line Interface
3263 ----------------------
3267 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3268 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3269 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3270 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3272 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3273 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3274 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3275 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3279 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3280 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3282 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3283 tag in your query, for example:
3285 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3287 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3288 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3290 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3291 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3293 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3295 Raw show format changes
3297 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3298 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3299 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3300 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3301 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3302 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3303 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3304 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3306 Listing configuration items
3308 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3314 Changes to tagging interface
3316 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3317 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3318 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3319 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3320 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3321 for more information.
3323 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3324 may need to update in custom configurations.
3326 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3328 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3329 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3330 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3331 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3334 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3335 -----------------------------
3337 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3338 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3339 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3340 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3341 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3342 contrib/ from now on.
3347 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3348 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3350 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3351 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3353 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3354 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3355 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3357 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3358 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3360 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3361 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3362 returning the new database object or directory object.
3369 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3370 compatible with go 1.
3372 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3373 =========================
3375 Command-Line Interface
3376 ----------------------
3380 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3381 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3382 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3383 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3385 Mail store folder/file ignore
3387 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3388 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3389 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3391 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3392 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3394 Unified help and manual pages
3396 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3397 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3400 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3402 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3403 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3411 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3412 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3413 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3414 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3416 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3418 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3419 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3421 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3424 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3425 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3426 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3428 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3430 should be changed to:
3432 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3434 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3436 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3437 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3439 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3441 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3442 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3443 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3444 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3445 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3446 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3450 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3451 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3452 of Mailing List Archives.
3454 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3456 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3457 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3460 Show view archiving key binding changes
3462 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3463 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3464 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3465 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3466 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3469 Support text/calendar MIME type
3471 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3474 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3476 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3477 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3478 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3479 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3481 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3483 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3484 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3485 messages blue by default in the search view.
3489 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3490 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3497 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3500 Python bindings changes
3501 -----------------------
3503 Python 3.2 compatibility
3505 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3507 Added missing unicode conversions
3509 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3510 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3511 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3516 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3518 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3519 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3520 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3521 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3522 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3524 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3525 ===========================
3530 Fix error handling in python bindings
3532 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3533 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3534 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3535 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3537 Quote MML tags in replies
3539 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3540 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3541 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3542 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3543 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3544 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3545 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3546 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3548 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3549 =========================
3551 Command-Line Interface
3552 ----------------------
3556 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3557 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3558 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3559 importing new messages into the database.
3561 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3563 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3564 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3565 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3570 Automatic tag query optimization
3572 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3573 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3574 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3576 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3578 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3579 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3580 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3585 Reduction of memory leaks
3587 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3588 and fixed in this release.
3595 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3596 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3597 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3600 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3602 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3603 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3604 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3607 Improvements in saved search management
3609 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3610 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3611 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3613 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3615 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3616 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3617 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3619 New face for crypto parts headers
3621 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3622 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3623 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3626 Use space as default thousands separator
3628 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3629 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3630 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3632 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3633 buttonized id: links
3635 New function notmuch-show-advance
3637 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3638 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3639 be bound to SPC with:
3641 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3643 Various performance improvements
3648 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3649 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3652 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3653 ===========================
3658 Fix crash in python bindings
3660 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3661 for some, but not all users.
3663 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3664 ===========================
3669 Fix `--help` argument
3671 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3672 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3673 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3675 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3676 =========================
3678 New build and testing features
3679 ------------------------------
3681 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3682 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3683 prerequisites is improved.
3685 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3687 New command-line features
3688 -------------------------
3690 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3692 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3693 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3696 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3698 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3699 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3700 favour of using stdout.
3702 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3704 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3705 limit the number of results shown.
3707 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3709 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3710 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3713 New emacs UI features
3714 ---------------------
3716 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3718 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3719 starting with "tag:".
3721 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3723 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3724 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3726 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3728 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3730 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3732 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3733 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3738 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3740 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3742 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3743 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3744 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3745 requires a database rebuild:
3747 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3748 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3750 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3752 New collection of add-on tools
3753 ------------------------------
3755 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3756 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3757 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3760 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3762 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3763 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3764 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3766 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3767 ========================
3769 New, general features
3770 ---------------------
3772 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3774 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3775 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3776 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3777 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3778 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3785 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3786 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3788 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3792 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3793 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3794 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3797 Python bindings changes
3798 -----------------------
3800 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3802 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3803 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3804 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3805 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3806 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3807 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3809 Ruby bindings changes
3810 ---------------------
3812 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3813 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3814 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3815 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3820 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3822 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3823 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3825 Reply formatting cleanup
3826 ------------------------
3828 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3829 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3831 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3832 ========================
3834 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3836 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3837 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3838 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3839 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3842 Improved Build system portability
3844 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3845 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3846 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3848 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3850 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3852 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3854 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3855 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3856 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3858 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3859 ========================
3861 Vim interface improvements
3862 --------------------------
3864 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3866 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3867 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3868 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3869 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3870 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3872 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3874 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3875 * fix compose temp file name
3877 Python Bindings changes
3878 -----------------------
3880 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3882 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3883 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3885 Build-System improvements
3886 -------------------------
3888 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3890 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3893 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3894 ==========================
3899 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3901 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3902 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3904 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3905 =======================
3907 New, general features
3908 ---------------------
3910 Folder-based searching
3912 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3913 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3914 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3918 For example, one might use things such as:
3924 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3925 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3927 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3928 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3929 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3930 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3932 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3933 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3934 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3937 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3938 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3940 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3942 Support for PGP/MIME
3944 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3945 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3946 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3948 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3950 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3951 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3953 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3954 notmuch will receive these tags.
3956 New command-line features
3957 -------------------------
3959 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3961 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3962 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3964 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3966 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3967 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3968 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3970 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3972 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3973 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3974 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3975 which parts a signature part applies).
3977 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3979 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3980 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3981 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3982 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3983 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3986 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3988 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3989 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3990 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3991 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3992 by translating it internally to the new call.
3994 Performance improvements
3995 ------------------------
3997 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3999 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
4000 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
4001 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
4003 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
4004 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
4006 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
4008 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
4009 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
4010 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
4012 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
4013 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
4014 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
4015 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
4017 Faster initial indexing
4019 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
4020 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
4021 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
4023 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
4025 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
4026 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
4027 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
4028 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
4030 New emacs-interface features
4031 ----------------------------
4033 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
4035 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
4036 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
4037 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
4038 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
4039 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
4040 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
4042 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
4044 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
4045 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
4046 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
4047 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
4049 User-selectable From address
4051 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
4052 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
4053 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
4054 will prompt for the from address to use.
4056 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
4057 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
4058 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
4060 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
4061 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
4062 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
4065 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
4067 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
4068 its parent, the subject is not shown.
4070 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
4072 When a message contains a line looking something like:
4074 ----- Original Message -----
4076 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
4077 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
4078 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
4079 citations work much like conventional citations.
4081 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
4083 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
4084 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
4085 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
4086 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
4087 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
4089 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
4090 Notmuch After Tag Hook
4092 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
4094 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
4095 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
4096 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
4098 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
4100 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
4101 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
4102 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
4103 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
4104 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
4106 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
4108 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
4111 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
4113 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
4115 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
4117 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
4120 Vim interface improvements
4121 --------------------------
4123 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
4125 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
4126 * Implementing archive in show view
4127 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
4128 * Add delete commands
4131 Bindings improvements
4132 ---------------------
4134 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
4136 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
4137 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
4139 Python bindings have been updated and extended
4141 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
4145 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
4146 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
4147 `list(Messages)` works now
4148 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
4150 These allow, for example:
4152 if msg1 == msg2: ...
4154 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
4156 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
4162 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
4164 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
4167 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
4169 New build-system features
4170 -------------------------
4172 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
4174 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
4175 the configure script from some other directory:
4182 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4184 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4185 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4186 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4187 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4188 manual invocation of configure.
4190 New test-suite feature
4191 ----------------------
4193 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4195 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4196 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4197 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4198 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4199 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4202 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4204 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4205 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4206 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4207 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4208 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4209 are updated to take advantage of this.
4211 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4213 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4214 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4215 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4216 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4222 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4224 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4225 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4226 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4228 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4230 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4232 to:user@elsewhere.com
4234 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4236 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4238 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4240 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4241 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4242 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4245 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4246 from the Received headers in some cases
4248 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4249 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4251 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4253 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4255 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4257 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4258 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4259 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4261 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4262 -------------------------
4264 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4266 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4267 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4268 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4270 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4272 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4273 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4274 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4277 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4279 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4280 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4281 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4282 fixed to avoid this bug.
4284 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4286 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4287 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4289 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4290 ========================
4292 New, general features
4293 ---------------------
4295 Maildir-flag synchronization
4297 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4298 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4307 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4309 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4310 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4311 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4312 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4314 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4315 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4316 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4317 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4320 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4322 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4323 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4324 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4326 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4327 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4329 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4330 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4332 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4333 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4334 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4336 New library features
4337 --------------------
4339 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4341 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4342 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4343 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4344 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4346 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4347 message with the new function:
4349 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4351 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4352 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4353 over all available filenames for a given message.
4355 New command-line features
4356 -------------------------
4358 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4360 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4361 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4362 access to the mail store itself.
4364 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4365 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4366 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4367 name of a script containing:
4369 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4371 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4372 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4378 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4380 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4382 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4384 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4385 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4386 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4387 now produces nothing).
4389 Emacs interface improvements
4390 ----------------------------
4392 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4394 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4396 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4398 Display current thread subject in a header line
4400 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4402 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4404 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4405 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4406 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4407 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4408 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4409 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4410 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4412 Vim interface improvements
4413 --------------------------
4415 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4417 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4418 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4424 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4426 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4427 ========================
4429 New command-line features
4430 -------------------------
4432 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4434 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4435 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4436 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4438 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4439 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4440 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4441 scripts. For example:
4443 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4444 <operations-on> "$file"
4447 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4449 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4450 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4451 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4452 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4453 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4454 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4456 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4458 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4459 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4460 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4461 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4463 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4465 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4466 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4467 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4468 default rather than Bcc.
4470 New library features
4471 --------------------
4473 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4475 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4476 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4481 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4483 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4484 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4485 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4486 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4487 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4488 notmuch customize interface.
4490 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4492 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4493 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4494 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4495 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4497 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4499 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4500 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4501 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4502 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4504 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4506 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4507 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4508 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4509 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4510 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4511 notmuch customize interface.
4513 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4515 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4516 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4517 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4518 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4519 notmuch customize interface.
4521 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4523 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4524 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4525 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4526 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4529 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4531 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4532 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4533 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4536 New build-system features
4537 -------------------------
4539 Various portability fixes have been applied
4541 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4542 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4543 more portable than ever before.
4545 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4547 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4548 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4549 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4551 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4552 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4553 automatically run ldconfig.
4555 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4556 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4557 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4559 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4560 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4561 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4562 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4564 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4566 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4567 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4568 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4569 used in the resulting Makefile.
4571 New test-suite features
4572 -----------------------
4574 New modularization of test suite
4576 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4577 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4578 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4579 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4580 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4581 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4582 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4583 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4585 New testing of emacs interface
4587 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4588 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4589 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4590 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4591 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4592 database via the FCC setting.
4597 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4599 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4600 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4601 persistent error of the form:
4603 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4605 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4606 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4608 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4610 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4611 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4612 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4614 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4616 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4617 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4618 parsing the notmuch results).
4620 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4622 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4625 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4626 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4627 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4632 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4634 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4635 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4636 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4637 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4638 the emacs interface.
4640 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4642 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4643 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4644 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4646 Python-binding fixes
4647 --------------------
4649 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4651 Debian-specific fixes
4652 ---------------------
4654 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4656 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4657 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4658 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4661 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4662 ==========================
4667 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4669 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4670 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4671 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4672 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4674 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4676 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4677 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4678 want notmuch to crash.
4683 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4685 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4686 directory does not exist
4691 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4693 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4694 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4696 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4697 ========================
4699 New command-line features
4700 -------------------------
4702 User-configurable tags for new messages
4704 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4705 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4706 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4707 to specify this value.
4709 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4711 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4712 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4713 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4715 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4717 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4718 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4720 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4722 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4723 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4724 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4725 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4726 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4729 Indication of author names that match a search
4731 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4732 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4733 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4734 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4735 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4736 messages in the thread are listed first.
4738 New: Python bindings
4739 --------------------
4741 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4742 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4743 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4744 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4746 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4747 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4748 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4751 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4752 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4753 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4755 Emacs interface improvements
4756 ----------------------------
4758 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4760 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4761 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4762 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4763 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4764 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4765 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4766 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4767 but without any of the disadvantages).
4769 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4770 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4771 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4774 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4775 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4776 instead running something like:
4778 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4780 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4781 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4782 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4785 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4787 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4788 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4789 tweaked by the user.
4791 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4792 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4793 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4796 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4797 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4798 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4801 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4803 This support currently relies on an external program,
4804 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4805 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4806 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4807 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4808 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4811 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4812 notmuch) is available via:
4814 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4816 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4817 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4818 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4820 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4822 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4823 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4824 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4825 making this automatic in a future release.
4827 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4829 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4830 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4831 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4832 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4833 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4834 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4837 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4839 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4840 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4841 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4843 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4845 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4846 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4847 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4849 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4850 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4851 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4852 other representation.
4854 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4855 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4858 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4860 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4861 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4862 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4864 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4865 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4866 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4868 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4870 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4871 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4872 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4873 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4874 to display the search result.
4876 More flexible handling of header visibility
4878 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4879 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4880 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4881 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4882 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4883 with the 'h' keybinding.
4885 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4886 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4887 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4889 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4891 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4893 Customizable formatting of search results
4895 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4896 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4897 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4899 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4901 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4903 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4908 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4910 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4911 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4912 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4913 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4919 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4921 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4922 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4924 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4926 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4927 accept are now all accepted.
4932 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4934 Better display of output from failed tests
4936 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4937 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4939 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4940 ========================
4942 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4943 detailed release notes this time!
4945 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4946 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4948 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4949 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4950 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4951 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4958 Better guessing of From: header
4960 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4961 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4962 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4963 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4964 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4967 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4969 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4970 guaranteed to match all messages.
4972 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4974 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4975 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4976 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4977 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4978 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4981 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4984 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4985 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4986 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4987 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4992 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4994 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4995 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4996 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4997 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4999 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
5001 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
5003 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
5004 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
5005 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
5007 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
5009 Previously, the user might see:
5011 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
5015 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
5017 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
5018 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
5019 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
5020 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
5022 Emacs client features
5023 ---------------------
5025 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
5027 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
5028 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
5029 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
5030 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
5031 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
5033 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
5036 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
5037 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
5038 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
5039 search with the '*' binding.
5041 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
5043 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
5044 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
5047 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
5049 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
5050 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
5051 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
5053 Build-system features
5054 ---------------------
5056 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
5058 Add support to configure for many standard options
5060 We include actual support for:
5062 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
5064 And accept and silently ignore several more:
5066 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
5067 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
5069 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
5070 separate "make install-emacs"
5072 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
5074 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
5075 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
5076 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
5078 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
5081 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
5082 ========================
5084 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
5086 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
5087 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
5089 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
5090 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
5091 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
5092 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
5093 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
5094 tags from messages in a thread.
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