1 Notmuch 0.31 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
9 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
14 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
15 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
16 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
22 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
23 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
24 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
25 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
30 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
31 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
32 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
37 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
40 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
41 =========================
46 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
47 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
48 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
51 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
57 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
58 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
59 notmuch-properties(7)).
64 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
65 has protected headers (see
66 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
67 notmuch-properties(7)).
72 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
74 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
75 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
81 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
84 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
85 ===========================
90 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
92 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
97 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
99 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
100 ===========================
105 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
106 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
108 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
109 ===========================
114 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
116 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
117 =========================
122 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
123 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
126 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
127 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
128 the set of headers to be indexed.
130 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
133 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
134 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
135 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
138 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
139 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
140 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
142 Command Line Interface
143 ----------------------
145 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
148 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
150 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
151 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
152 more details about what is included there. This status includes
153 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
158 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
159 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
161 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
163 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
165 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
167 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
169 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
172 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
174 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
175 and may be removed in a future release.
177 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
183 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
185 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
186 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
191 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
192 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
193 cryptography support.
198 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
199 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
200 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
202 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
203 ===========================
205 Command line interface
206 ----------------------
208 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
209 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
211 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
212 ===========================
217 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
218 by message properties.
223 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
225 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
226 ===========================
231 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
236 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
237 now needed to build this documentation.
239 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
240 ===========================
245 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
246 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
248 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
249 =========================
256 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
257 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
258 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
259 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
260 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
263 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
265 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
266 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
267 correct encoding for such messages.
269 Command Line Interface
270 ----------------------
272 Support relative database paths
274 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
275 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
276 to $HOME of the invoking user.
281 Improve stderr handling
283 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
284 needed on e.g. macOS.
286 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
288 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
293 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
294 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
300 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
301 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
307 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
308 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
311 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
312 =========================
317 Add support for thread:{} queries
319 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
320 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
321 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
323 Command Line Interface
324 ----------------------
326 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
328 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
330 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
332 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
333 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
334 does not have to be available during message receipt.
339 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
345 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
346 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
348 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
349 ===========================
354 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
356 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
357 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
358 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
360 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
362 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
363 related abort in `notmuch show`.
365 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
366 ===========================
371 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
372 better late than never.
375 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
376 =========================
378 Command Line Interface
379 ----------------------
381 Support for re-indexing existing messages
383 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
384 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
385 change the way specific messages are indexed.
387 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
388 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
389 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
391 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
393 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
395 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
397 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
398 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
399 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
400 the setting of `new.tags`.
402 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
404 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
406 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
408 This inserts into the top level folder.
410 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
412 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
414 New option --output=address for notmuch address
416 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
418 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
420 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
421 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
422 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
424 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
429 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
431 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
432 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
433 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
434 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
435 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
436 config set index.decrypt true".
438 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
439 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
440 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
441 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
442 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
443 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
444 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
445 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
447 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
448 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
449 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
450 this feature without considering the security of your index.
455 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
457 Use make-process when available
459 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
460 notmuch command without using temporary files.
465 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
467 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
468 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
469 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
470 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
472 New functions to count files
474 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
475 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
477 New function to remove properties
479 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
480 drop all properties with a common pattern:
481 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
483 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
485 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
486 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
487 possibility of NULL was not documented.
489 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
491 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
492 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
493 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
494 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
495 operator may decide to change from message to message.
502 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
503 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
504 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
510 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
512 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
513 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
515 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
517 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
519 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
521 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
526 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
527 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
529 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
530 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
531 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
532 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
533 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
534 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
539 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
541 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
542 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
543 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
544 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
546 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
547 ===========================
552 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
553 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
556 Command Line Interface
557 ----------------------
559 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
560 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
563 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
564 ===========================
566 Command Line Interface
567 ----------------------
569 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
570 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
575 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
578 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
579 ===========================
584 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
587 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
588 =========================
593 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
595 Skip HTML tags when indexing
597 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
599 Command Line Interface
600 ----------------------
602 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
604 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
609 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
611 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
612 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
615 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
620 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
622 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
623 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
625 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
627 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
628 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
631 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
633 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
635 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
637 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
638 ===========================
640 Command Line Interface
641 ----------------------
643 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
648 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
650 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
651 ===========================
656 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
658 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
659 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
662 Command Line Interface
663 ----------------------
665 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
667 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
669 Fix bug in dump header
671 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
672 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
673 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
678 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
680 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
681 =========================
686 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
688 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
691 Command Line Interface
692 ----------------------
694 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
696 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
697 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
698 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
700 New default output format to 3
702 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
703 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
704 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
705 default format changes.
710 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
712 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
713 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
714 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
715 or tree view to resume.
717 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
718 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
719 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
722 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
723 they were when you postponed in the final message.
727 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
728 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
729 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
730 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
731 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
735 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
736 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
737 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
738 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
739 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
740 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
744 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
745 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
747 Stop display of `application/*` parts
749 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
750 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
751 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
752 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
753 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
754 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
755 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
756 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
759 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
761 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
762 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
763 only tagged the current thread.)
765 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
767 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
768 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
769 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
771 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
773 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
774 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
775 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
776 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
777 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
778 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
779 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
781 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
783 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
784 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
785 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
790 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
792 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
795 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
797 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
800 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
801 ===========================
806 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
808 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
809 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
810 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
813 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
814 ===========================
816 Command Line Interface
817 ----------------------
819 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
824 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
826 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
827 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
828 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
830 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
831 ===========================
836 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
837 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
839 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
840 ===========================
842 Command Line Interface
843 ----------------------
845 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
847 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
848 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
849 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
854 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
856 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
857 ===========================
859 Command Line Interface
860 ----------------------
862 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
867 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
869 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
870 ===========================
875 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
877 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
878 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
879 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
881 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
883 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
885 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
886 ===========================
891 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
893 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
898 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
900 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
901 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
902 the original colours.
904 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
905 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
907 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
909 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
910 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
911 bug, and hence the test.
913 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
914 =========================
916 General (Xapian 1.4+)
917 ---------------------
919 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
921 Support for single argument date: queries
923 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
925 Support for blocking opens
927 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
928 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
930 Support for named queries
932 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
933 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
934 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
941 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
942 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
943 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
944 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
946 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
948 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
953 Support for compile time options
955 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
956 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
959 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
961 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
962 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
963 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
964 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
965 scripts to ignore it.
970 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
972 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
973 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
974 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
976 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
977 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
978 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
979 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
980 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
981 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
982 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
984 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
985 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
988 Make internal address completion customizable
990 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
991 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
992 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
993 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
996 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
998 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
999 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1000 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1001 completion for the current buffer.
1003 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1004 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1005 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1009 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1010 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1011 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1012 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1013 will be added instead.
1015 Face customization is easier
1017 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1018 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1019 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1020 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1022 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1027 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1032 Go bindings moved to contrib
1034 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1036 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1038 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1039 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1041 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1043 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1044 ===========================
1051 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1052 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1054 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1056 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1058 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1059 ===========================
1064 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1066 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1071 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1076 Use `env` to locate perl.
1081 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1083 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1085 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1087 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1089 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1090 =========================
1097 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1098 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1100 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1102 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1103 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1104 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1109 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1110 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1111 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1113 Command Line Interface
1114 ----------------------
1116 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1118 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1123 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1128 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1130 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1131 parts are now included in replies.
1133 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1134 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1135 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1136 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1138 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1140 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1142 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1144 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1145 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1146 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1147 forwards only the current message.
1149 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1151 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1152 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1153 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1154 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1155 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1156 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1157 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1158 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1161 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1162 longer generate empty buffers
1164 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1165 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1166 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1167 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1168 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1170 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1172 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1175 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1177 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1180 Address completion improvements
1182 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1183 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1184 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1185 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1186 interactive address completion.
1188 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1190 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1191 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1192 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1197 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1198 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1199 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1205 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1206 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1207 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1208 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1209 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1210 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1212 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1213 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1214 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1215 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1216 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1217 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1219 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1220 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1222 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1223 =========================
1228 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1231 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1233 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1234 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1235 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1237 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1238 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1240 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1241 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1242 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1244 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1246 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1247 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1248 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1249 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1250 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1251 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1256 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1257 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1260 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1261 option to configure.
1263 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1265 Command Line Interface
1266 ----------------------
1268 Database revision tracking
1270 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1271 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1272 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1273 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1275 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1277 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1278 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1279 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1280 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1281 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1282 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1283 manual page for further information.
1288 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1290 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1291 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1293 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1295 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1296 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1297 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1299 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1301 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1303 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1304 customization as well.
1306 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1308 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1310 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1312 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1314 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1315 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1316 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1317 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1319 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1321 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1322 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1323 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1324 this variable to 10000.
1329 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1330 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1332 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1334 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1335 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1336 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1337 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1338 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1339 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1340 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1341 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1342 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1345 Database revision tracking
1347 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1348 query parser and the new function
1349 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1351 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1353 Deprecated functions
1355 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1356 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1357 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1358 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1363 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1365 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1366 ===========================
1371 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1373 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1374 ===========================
1379 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1381 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1382 =========================
1384 Command-Line Interface
1385 ----------------------
1387 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1389 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1390 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1391 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1393 Path to gpg is now configurable
1395 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1396 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1401 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1403 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1408 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1413 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1418 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1420 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1421 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1423 New error logging facility
1425 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1426 output formerly printed to stderr.
1428 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1430 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1432 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1434 Fix for rounding of seconds
1439 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1441 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1442 documentation has been removed.
1444 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1446 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1447 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1452 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1453 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1454 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1459 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1460 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1461 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1462 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1463 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1464 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1467 git checkout config origin/config
1469 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1471 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1472 =========================
1477 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1478 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1479 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1480 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1481 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1482 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1483 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1485 Command-Line Interface
1486 ----------------------
1488 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1490 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1491 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1492 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1493 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1494 script callers should still check the return value.
1496 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1498 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1499 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1500 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1501 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1502 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1503 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1504 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1506 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1508 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1509 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1510 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1512 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1514 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1515 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1516 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1517 currently unmaintained.
1519 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1521 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1522 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1523 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1524 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1526 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1528 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1529 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1530 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1531 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1532 count of duplicate addresses.
1537 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1539 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1540 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1541 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1544 Improved handling of the unread tag
1546 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1547 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1548 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1549 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1550 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1551 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1552 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1554 Expanded default saved search settings
1556 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1557 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1559 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1561 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1562 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1563 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1565 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1567 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1568 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1569 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1570 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1571 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1572 the variable for details.
1577 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1579 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1580 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1581 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1582 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1584 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1586 Previously, library users were required to call
1587 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1588 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1589 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1590 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1591 too out of date for that API.
1593 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1595 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1596 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1597 atomic section will be aborted.
1599 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1600 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1602 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1604 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1605 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1606 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1607 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1608 messages into the same thread.
1613 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1614 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1615 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1616 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1617 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1618 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1623 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1624 from the config file. Use something like:
1628 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1629 "footer": "</body></html>",
1638 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1643 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1644 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1645 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1647 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1648 ===========================
1653 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1655 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1657 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1659 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1660 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1662 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1664 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1667 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1668 ===========================
1670 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1675 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1677 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1679 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1681 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1683 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1689 Use --quick when starting emacs
1691 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1693 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1695 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1697 Command-Line Interface
1698 ----------------------
1700 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1701 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1706 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1708 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1709 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1711 Fix for phrase indexing
1713 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1714 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1715 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1720 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1722 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1723 unintentionally removed.
1725 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1726 =========================
1731 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1732 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1733 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1734 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1735 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1736 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1737 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1738 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1739 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1745 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1747 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1748 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1749 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1750 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1751 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1752 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1753 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1754 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1756 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1758 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1759 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1760 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1761 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1764 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1766 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1767 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1768 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1769 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1770 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1771 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1772 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1777 Notmuch database upgrade
1779 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1780 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1781 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1782 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1783 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1784 released version of Notmuch before now.
1786 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1788 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1789 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1790 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1791 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1793 Message header parsing changes
1795 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1796 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1797 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1798 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1799 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1800 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1802 Command-Line Interface
1803 ----------------------
1805 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1807 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1809 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1811 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1813 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1815 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1816 user does not want it.
1818 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1820 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1821 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1822 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1823 support formatted output.
1825 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1827 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1828 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1829 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1837 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1838 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1839 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1840 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1841 `~/.emacs` with these.
1843 Changed format for saved searches
1845 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1846 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1847 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1848 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1851 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1852 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1853 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1854 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1856 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1857 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1858 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1860 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1861 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1862 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1863 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1864 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1866 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1868 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1869 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1870 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1872 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1874 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1875 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1876 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1877 message had been unread).
1879 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1880 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1881 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1882 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1884 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1885 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1886 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1888 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1889 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1890 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1891 to tags already present.
1895 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1896 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1897 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1898 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1899 these differ from each other.
1900 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1902 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1904 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1905 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1906 for these Emacs versions.
1908 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1910 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1911 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1913 Bug fixes for sender identities
1915 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1916 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1917 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1919 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1921 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1922 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1923 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1924 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1926 Reply pushes mark before signature
1928 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1929 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1930 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1932 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1934 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1935 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1941 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1942 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1944 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1945 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1946 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1947 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1949 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1950 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1951 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1952 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1953 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1955 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1957 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1958 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1960 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1961 =========================
1963 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1964 ---------------------------------------
1966 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1967 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1968 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1969 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1970 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1971 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1972 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1976 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1977 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1979 Command-Line Interface
1980 ----------------------
1982 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1984 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1985 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1986 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1987 print for each message.
1989 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1990 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1991 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1992 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1994 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1996 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1997 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1998 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2000 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2002 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2003 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2004 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2005 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2007 `notmuch compact` command
2009 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2010 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2011 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2012 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2013 move the compacted database into place.
2018 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2020 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2021 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2022 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2023 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2024 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2025 and multiple threads.
2027 Using `notmuch-tree`
2029 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2031 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2032 search, show and tree mode itself)
2034 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2037 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2038 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2040 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2042 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2043 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2044 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2045 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2046 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2047 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2048 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2050 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2052 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2053 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2054 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2055 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2056 thread when the search was performed.
2058 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2060 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2061 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2062 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2064 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2066 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2067 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2070 Built-in help improvements
2072 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2073 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2074 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2076 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2078 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2079 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2080 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2082 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2084 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2085 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2087 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2089 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2090 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2091 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2092 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2094 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2096 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2097 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2098 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2099 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2101 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2103 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2104 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2105 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2107 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2109 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2110 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2111 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2113 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2115 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2116 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2117 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2118 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2119 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2121 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2123 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2124 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2125 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2126 the body part of the message.
2131 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2132 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2133 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2135 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2136 =========================
2138 Command-Line Interface
2139 ----------------------
2141 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2143 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2144 folder and notmuch index.
2146 `notmuch count --batch` option
2148 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2149 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2151 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2153 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2154 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2155 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2158 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2160 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2161 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2162 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2163 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2164 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2167 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2169 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2170 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2172 Top level option to specify configuration file
2174 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2175 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2177 Bash command-line completion
2179 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2180 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2181 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2182 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2183 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2184 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2185 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2186 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2187 bash-completion package.
2189 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2194 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2196 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2197 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2198 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2199 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2200 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2201 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2202 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2203 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2205 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2207 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2208 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2209 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2211 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2213 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2214 previous thread in the search results.
2216 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2218 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2219 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2221 Faster search and show
2223 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2224 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2225 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2226 threads should show faster.
2230 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2231 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2232 in question was now removed from this release.
2237 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2238 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2243 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2245 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2246 ===========================
2251 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2253 Internal test framework changes
2254 -------------------------------
2256 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2257 being unimplemented.
2259 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2260 ===========================
2262 Internal test framework changes
2263 -------------------------------
2265 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2266 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2268 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2269 =========================
2274 Date range search support
2276 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2277 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2278 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2279 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2280 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2283 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2285 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2286 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2287 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2288 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2289 but may be removed in a future release.
2291 Command-Line Interface
2292 ----------------------
2294 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2296 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2297 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2299 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2301 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2302 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2303 officially deprecated.
2305 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2307 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2308 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2309 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2311 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2313 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2314 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2317 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2318 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2319 dump/restore format.
2321 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2323 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2324 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2325 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2327 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2329 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2330 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2331 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2333 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2335 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2336 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2337 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2338 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2343 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2345 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2346 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2347 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2348 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2350 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2352 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2353 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2354 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2355 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2356 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2357 the behavior of this, see
2358 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2359 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2361 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2362 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2363 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2365 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2367 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2368 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2371 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2373 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2374 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2375 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2376 simply displayed in place of the message.
2378 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2380 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2381 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2383 Improved text/calendar content handling
2385 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2386 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2387 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2388 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2390 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2392 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2393 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2394 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2395 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2397 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2399 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2400 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2401 for HTML email containing images.
2403 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2405 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2407 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2409 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2412 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2414 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2415 the point where it was.
2417 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2419 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2420 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2421 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2422 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2423 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2425 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2427 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2428 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2429 thread instead of the message id.
2431 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2432 -----------------------------
2434 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2435 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2436 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2437 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2438 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2439 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2440 further details and installation.
2445 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2447 Internal test framework changes
2448 -------------------------------
2450 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2452 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2453 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2454 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2455 can result in buggy behavior.
2457 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2458 =========================
2463 Maildir tag synchronization
2465 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2466 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2467 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2468 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2469 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2470 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2473 Command-Line Interface
2474 ----------------------
2476 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2477 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2478 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2479 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2480 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2486 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2488 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2490 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2491 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2492 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2494 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2496 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2497 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2498 span multiple lines.
2500 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2502 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2503 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2504 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2505 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2506 inside the result or message.
2508 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2510 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2511 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2513 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2514 user-specified formatting
2516 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2517 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2518 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2519 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2520 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2522 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2523 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2525 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2526 ===========================
2531 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2532 compilation error for this contrib package.
2534 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2535 ===========================
2540 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2542 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2543 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2544 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2545 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2547 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2548 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2551 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2552 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2553 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2554 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2557 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2559 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2562 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2563 =========================
2565 Command-Line Interface
2566 ----------------------
2570 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2571 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2572 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2573 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2575 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2576 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2577 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2578 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2582 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2583 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2585 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2586 tag in your query, for example:
2588 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2590 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2591 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2593 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2594 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2596 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2598 Raw show format changes
2600 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2601 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2602 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2603 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2604 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2605 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2606 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2607 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2609 Listing configuration items
2611 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2617 Changes to tagging interface
2619 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2620 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2621 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2622 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2623 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2624 for more information.
2626 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2627 may need to update in custom configurations.
2629 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2631 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2632 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2633 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2634 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2637 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2638 -----------------------------
2640 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2641 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2642 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2643 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2644 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2645 contrib/ from now on.
2650 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2651 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2653 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2654 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2656 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2657 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2658 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2660 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2661 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2663 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2664 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2665 returning the new database object or directory object.
2672 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2673 compatible with go 1.
2675 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2676 =========================
2678 Command-Line Interface
2679 ----------------------
2683 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2684 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2685 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2686 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2688 Mail store folder/file ignore
2690 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2691 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2692 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2694 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2695 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2697 Unified help and manual pages
2699 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2700 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2703 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2705 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2706 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2714 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2715 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2716 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2717 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2719 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2721 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2722 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2724 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2727 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2728 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2729 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2731 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2733 should be changed to:
2735 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2737 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2739 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2740 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2742 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2744 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2745 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2746 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2747 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2748 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2749 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2753 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2754 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2755 of Mailing List Archives.
2757 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2759 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2760 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2763 Show view archiving key binding changes
2765 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2766 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2767 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2768 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2769 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2772 Support text/calendar MIME type
2774 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2777 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2779 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2780 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2781 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2782 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2784 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2786 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2787 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2788 messages blue by default in the search view.
2792 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2793 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2800 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2803 Python bindings changes
2804 -----------------------
2806 Python 3.2 compatibility
2808 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2810 Added missing unicode conversions
2812 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2813 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2814 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2819 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2821 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2822 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2823 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2824 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2825 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2827 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2828 ===========================
2833 Fix error handling in python bindings
2835 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2836 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2837 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2838 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2840 Quote MML tags in replies
2842 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2843 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2844 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2845 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2846 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2847 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2848 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2849 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2851 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2852 =========================
2854 Command-Line Interface
2855 ----------------------
2859 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2860 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2861 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2862 importing new messages into the database.
2864 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2866 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2867 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2868 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2873 Automatic tag query optimization
2875 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2876 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2877 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2879 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2881 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2882 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2883 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2888 Reduction of memory leaks
2890 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2891 and fixed in this release.
2898 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2899 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2900 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2903 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2905 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2906 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2907 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2910 Improvements in saved search management
2912 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2913 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2914 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2916 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2918 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2919 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2920 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2922 New face for crypto parts headers
2924 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2925 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2926 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2929 Use space as default thousands separator
2931 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2932 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2933 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2935 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2936 buttonized id: links
2938 New function notmuch-show-advance
2940 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2941 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2942 be bound to SPC with:
2944 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2946 Various performance improvements
2951 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2952 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2955 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2956 ===========================
2961 Fix crash in python bindings
2963 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2964 for some, but not all users.
2966 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2967 ===========================
2972 Fix `--help` argument
2974 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2975 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2976 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2978 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2979 =========================
2981 New build and testing features
2982 ------------------------------
2984 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2985 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2986 prerequisites is improved.
2988 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2990 New command-line features
2991 -------------------------
2993 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2995 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2996 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2999 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3001 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3002 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3003 favour of using stdout.
3005 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3007 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3008 limit the number of results shown.
3010 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3012 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3013 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3016 New emacs UI features
3017 ---------------------
3019 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3021 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3022 starting with "tag:".
3024 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3026 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3027 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3029 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3031 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3033 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3035 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3036 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3041 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3043 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3045 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3046 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3047 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3048 requires a database rebuild:
3050 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3051 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3053 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3055 New collection of add-on tools
3056 ------------------------------
3058 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3059 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3060 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3063 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3065 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3066 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3067 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3069 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3070 ========================
3072 New, general features
3073 ---------------------
3075 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3077 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3078 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3079 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3080 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3081 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3088 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3089 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3091 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3095 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3096 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3097 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3100 Python bindings changes
3101 -----------------------
3103 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3105 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3106 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3107 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3108 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3109 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3110 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3112 Ruby bindings changes
3113 ---------------------
3115 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3116 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3117 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3118 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3123 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3125 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3126 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3128 Reply formatting cleanup
3129 ------------------------
3131 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3132 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3134 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3135 ========================
3137 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3139 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3140 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3141 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3142 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3145 Improved Build system portability
3147 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3148 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3149 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3151 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3153 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3155 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3157 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3158 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3159 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3161 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3162 ========================
3164 Vim interface improvements
3165 --------------------------
3167 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3169 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3170 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3171 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3172 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3173 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3175 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3177 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3178 * fix compose temp file name
3180 Python Bindings changes
3181 -----------------------
3183 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3185 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3186 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3188 Build-System improvements
3189 -------------------------
3191 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3193 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3196 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3197 ==========================
3202 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3204 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3205 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3207 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3208 =======================
3210 New, general features
3211 ---------------------
3213 Folder-based searching
3215 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3216 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3217 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3221 For example, one might use things such as:
3227 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3228 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3230 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3231 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3232 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3233 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3235 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3236 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3237 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3240 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3241 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3243 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3245 Support for PGP/MIME
3247 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3248 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3249 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3251 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3253 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3254 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3256 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3257 notmuch will receive these tags.
3259 New command-line features
3260 -------------------------
3262 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3264 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3265 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3267 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3269 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3270 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3271 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3273 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3275 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3276 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3277 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3278 which parts a signature part applies).
3280 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3282 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3283 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3284 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3285 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3286 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3289 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3291 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3292 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3293 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3294 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3295 by translating it internally to the new call.
3297 Performance improvements
3298 ------------------------
3300 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3302 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3303 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3304 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3306 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3307 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3309 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3311 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3312 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3313 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3315 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3316 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3317 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3318 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3320 Faster initial indexing
3322 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3323 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3324 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3326 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3328 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3329 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3330 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3331 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3333 New emacs-interface features
3334 ----------------------------
3336 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3338 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3339 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3340 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3341 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3342 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3343 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3345 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3347 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3348 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3349 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3350 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3352 User-selectable From address
3354 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3355 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3356 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3357 will prompt for the from address to use.
3359 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3360 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3361 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3363 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3364 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3365 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3368 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3370 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3371 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3373 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3375 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3377 ----- Original Message -----
3379 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3380 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3381 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3382 citations work much like conventional citations.
3384 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3386 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3387 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3388 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3389 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3390 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3392 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3393 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3395 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3397 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3398 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3399 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3401 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3403 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3404 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3405 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3406 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3407 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3409 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3411 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3414 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3416 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3418 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3420 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3423 Vim interface improvements
3424 --------------------------
3426 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3428 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3429 * Implementing archive in show view
3430 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3431 * Add delete commands
3434 Bindings improvements
3435 ---------------------
3437 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3439 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3440 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3442 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3444 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3448 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3449 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3450 `list(Messages)` works now
3451 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3453 These allow, for example:
3455 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3457 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3459 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3465 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3467 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3470 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3472 New build-system features
3473 -------------------------
3475 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3477 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3478 the configure script from some other directory:
3485 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3487 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3488 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3489 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3490 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3491 manual invocation of configure.
3493 New test-suite feature
3494 ----------------------
3496 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3498 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3499 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3500 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3501 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3502 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3505 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3507 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3508 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3509 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3510 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3511 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3512 are updated to take advantage of this.
3514 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3516 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3517 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3518 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3519 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3525 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3527 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3528 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3529 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3531 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3533 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3535 to:user@elsewhere.com
3537 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3539 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3541 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3543 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3544 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3545 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3548 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3549 from the Received headers in some cases
3551 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3552 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3554 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3556 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3558 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3560 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3561 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3562 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3564 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3565 -------------------------
3567 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3569 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3570 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3571 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3573 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3575 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3576 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3577 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3580 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3582 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3583 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3584 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3585 fixed to avoid this bug.
3587 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3589 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3590 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3592 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3593 ========================
3595 New, general features
3596 ---------------------
3598 Maildir-flag synchronization
3600 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3601 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3610 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3612 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3613 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3614 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3615 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3617 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3618 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3619 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3620 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3623 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3625 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3626 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3627 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3629 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3630 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3632 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3633 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3635 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3636 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3637 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3639 New library features
3640 --------------------
3642 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3644 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3645 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3646 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3647 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3649 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3650 message with the new function:
3652 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3654 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3655 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3656 over all available filenames for a given message.
3658 New command-line features
3659 -------------------------
3661 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3663 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3664 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3665 access to the mail store itself.
3667 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3668 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3669 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3670 name of a script containing:
3672 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3674 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3675 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3681 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3683 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3685 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3687 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3688 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3689 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3690 now produces nothing).
3692 Emacs interface improvements
3693 ----------------------------
3695 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3697 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3699 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3701 Display current thread subject in a header line
3703 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3705 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3707 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3708 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3709 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3710 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3711 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3712 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3713 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3715 Vim interface improvements
3716 --------------------------
3718 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3720 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3721 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3727 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3729 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3730 ========================
3732 New command-line features
3733 -------------------------
3735 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3737 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3738 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3739 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3741 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3742 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3743 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3744 scripts. For example:
3746 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3747 <operations-on> "$file"
3750 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3752 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3753 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3754 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3755 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3756 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3757 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3759 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3761 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3762 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3763 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3764 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3766 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3768 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3769 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3770 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3771 default rather than Bcc.
3773 New library features
3774 --------------------
3776 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3778 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3779 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3784 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3786 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3787 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3788 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3789 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3790 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3791 notmuch customize interface.
3793 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3795 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3796 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3797 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3798 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3800 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3802 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3803 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3804 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3805 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3807 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3809 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3810 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3811 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3812 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3813 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3814 notmuch customize interface.
3816 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3818 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3819 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3820 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3821 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3822 notmuch customize interface.
3824 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3826 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3827 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3828 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3829 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3832 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3834 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3835 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3836 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3839 New build-system features
3840 -------------------------
3842 Various portability fixes have been applied
3844 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3845 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3846 more portable than ever before.
3848 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3850 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3851 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3852 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3854 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3855 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3856 automatically run ldconfig.
3858 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3859 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3860 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3862 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3863 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3864 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3865 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3867 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3869 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3870 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3871 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3872 used in the resulting Makefile.
3874 New test-suite features
3875 -----------------------
3877 New modularization of test suite
3879 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3880 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3881 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3882 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3883 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3884 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3885 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3886 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3888 New testing of emacs interface
3890 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3891 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3892 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3893 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3894 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3895 database via the FCC setting.
3900 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3902 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3903 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3904 persistent error of the form:
3906 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3908 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3909 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3911 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3913 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3914 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3915 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3917 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3919 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3920 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3921 parsing the notmuch results).
3923 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3925 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3928 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3929 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3930 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3935 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3937 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3938 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3939 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3940 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3941 the emacs interface.
3943 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3945 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3946 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3947 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3949 Python-binding fixes
3950 --------------------
3952 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3954 Debian-specific fixes
3955 ---------------------
3957 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3959 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3960 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3961 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3964 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3965 ==========================
3970 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3972 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3973 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3974 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3975 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3977 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3979 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3980 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3981 want notmuch to crash.
3986 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3988 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3989 directory does not exist
3994 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3996 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3997 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3999 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4000 ========================
4002 New command-line features
4003 -------------------------
4005 User-configurable tags for new messages
4007 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4008 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4009 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4010 to specify this value.
4012 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4014 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4015 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4016 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4018 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4020 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4021 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4023 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4025 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4026 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4027 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4028 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4029 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4032 Indication of author names that match a search
4034 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4035 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4036 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4037 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4038 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4039 messages in the thread are listed first.
4041 New: Python bindings
4042 --------------------
4044 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4045 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4046 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4047 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4049 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4050 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4051 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4054 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4055 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4056 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4058 Emacs interface improvements
4059 ----------------------------
4061 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4063 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4064 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4065 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4066 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4067 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4068 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4069 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4070 but without any of the disadvantages).
4072 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4073 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4074 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4077 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4078 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4079 instead running something like:
4081 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4083 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4084 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4085 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4088 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4090 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4091 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4092 tweaked by the user.
4094 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4095 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4096 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4099 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4100 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4101 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4104 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4106 This support currently relies on an external program,
4107 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4108 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4109 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4110 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4111 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4114 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4115 notmuch) is available via:
4117 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4119 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4120 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4121 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4123 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4125 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4126 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4127 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4128 making this automatic in a future release.
4130 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4132 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4133 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4134 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4135 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4136 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4137 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4140 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4142 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4143 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4144 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4146 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4148 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4149 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4150 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4152 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4153 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4154 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4155 other representation.
4157 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4158 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4161 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4163 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4164 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4165 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4167 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4168 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4169 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4171 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4173 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4174 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4175 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4176 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4177 to display the search result.
4179 More flexible handling of header visibility
4181 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4182 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4183 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4184 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4185 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4186 with the 'h' keybinding.
4188 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4189 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4190 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4192 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4194 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4196 Customizable formatting of search results
4198 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4199 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4200 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4202 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4204 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4206 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4211 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4213 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4214 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4215 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4216 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4222 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4224 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4225 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4227 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4229 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4230 accept are now all accepted.
4235 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4237 Better display of output from failed tests
4239 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4240 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4242 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4243 ========================
4245 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4246 detailed release notes this time!
4248 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4249 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4251 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4252 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4253 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4254 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4261 Better guessing of From: header
4263 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4264 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4265 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4266 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4267 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4270 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4272 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4273 guaranteed to match all messages.
4275 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4277 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4278 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4279 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4280 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4281 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4284 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4287 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4288 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4289 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4290 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4295 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4297 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4298 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4299 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4300 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4302 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4304 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4306 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4307 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4308 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4310 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4312 Previously, the user might see:
4314 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4318 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4320 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4321 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4322 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4323 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4325 Emacs client features
4326 ---------------------
4328 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4330 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4331 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4332 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4333 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4334 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4336 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4339 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4340 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4341 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4342 search with the '*' binding.
4344 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4346 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4347 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4350 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4352 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4353 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4354 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4356 Build-system features
4357 ---------------------
4359 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4361 Add support to configure for many standard options
4363 We include actual support for:
4365 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4367 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4369 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4370 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4372 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4373 separate "make install-emacs"
4375 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4377 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4378 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4379 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4381 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4384 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4385 ========================
4387 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4389 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4390 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4392 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4393 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4394 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4395 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4396 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4397 tags from messages in a thread.
4404 indent-tabs-mode: nil