1 Notmuch 0.31 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
12 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
13 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
14 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
17 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
18 =========================
23 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
24 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
25 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
28 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
34 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
35 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
36 notmuch-properties(7)).
41 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
42 has protected headers (see
43 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
44 notmuch-properties(7)).
49 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
51 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
52 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
58 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
61 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
62 ===========================
67 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
69 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
74 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
76 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
77 ===========================
82 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
83 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
85 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
86 ===========================
91 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
93 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
94 =========================
99 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
100 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
103 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
104 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
105 the set of headers to be indexed.
107 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
110 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
111 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
112 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
115 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
116 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
117 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
119 Command Line Interface
120 ----------------------
122 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
125 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
127 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
128 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
129 more details about what is included there. This status includes
130 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
135 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
136 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
138 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
140 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
142 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
144 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
146 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
149 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
151 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
152 and may be removed in a future release.
154 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
160 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
162 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
163 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
168 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
169 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
170 cryptography support.
175 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
176 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
177 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
179 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
180 ===========================
182 Command line interface
183 ----------------------
185 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
186 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
188 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
189 ===========================
194 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
195 by message properties.
200 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
202 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
203 ===========================
208 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
213 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
214 now needed to build this documentation.
216 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
217 ===========================
222 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
223 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
225 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
226 =========================
233 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
234 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
235 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
236 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
237 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
240 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
242 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
243 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
244 correct encoding for such messages.
246 Command Line Interface
247 ----------------------
249 Support relative database paths
251 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
252 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
253 to $HOME of the invoking user.
258 Improve stderr handling
260 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
261 needed on e.g. macOS.
263 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
265 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
270 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
271 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
277 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
278 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
284 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
285 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
288 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
289 =========================
294 Add support for thread:{} queries
296 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
297 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
298 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
300 Command Line Interface
301 ----------------------
303 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
305 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
307 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
309 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
310 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
311 does not have to be available during message receipt.
316 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
322 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
323 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
325 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
326 ===========================
331 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
333 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
334 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
335 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
337 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
339 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
340 related abort in `notmuch show`.
342 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
343 ===========================
348 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
349 better late than never.
352 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
353 =========================
355 Command Line Interface
356 ----------------------
358 Support for re-indexing existing messages
360 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
361 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
362 change the way specific messages are indexed.
364 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
365 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
366 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
368 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
370 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
372 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
374 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
375 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
376 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
377 the setting of `new.tags`.
379 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
381 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
383 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
385 This inserts into the top level folder.
387 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
389 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
391 New option --output=address for notmuch address
393 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
395 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
397 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
398 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
399 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
401 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
406 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
408 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
409 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
410 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
411 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
412 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
413 config set index.decrypt true".
415 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
416 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
417 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
418 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
419 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
420 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
421 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
422 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
424 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
425 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
426 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
427 this feature without considering the security of your index.
432 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
434 Use make-process when available
436 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
437 notmuch command without using temporary files.
442 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
444 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
445 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
446 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
447 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
449 New functions to count files
451 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
452 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
454 New function to remove properties
456 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
457 drop all properties with a common pattern:
458 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
460 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
462 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
463 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
464 possibility of NULL was not documented.
466 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
468 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
469 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
470 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
471 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
472 operator may decide to change from message to message.
479 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
480 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
481 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
487 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
489 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
490 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
492 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
494 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
496 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
498 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
503 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
504 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
506 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
507 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
508 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
509 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
510 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
511 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
516 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
518 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
519 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
520 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
521 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
523 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
524 ===========================
529 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
530 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
533 Command Line Interface
534 ----------------------
536 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
537 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
540 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
541 ===========================
543 Command Line Interface
544 ----------------------
546 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
547 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
552 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
555 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
556 ===========================
561 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
564 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
565 =========================
570 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
572 Skip HTML tags when indexing
574 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
576 Command Line Interface
577 ----------------------
579 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
581 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
586 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
588 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
589 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
592 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
597 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
599 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
600 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
602 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
604 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
605 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
608 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
610 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
612 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
614 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
615 ===========================
617 Command Line Interface
618 ----------------------
620 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
625 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
627 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
628 ===========================
633 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
635 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
636 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
639 Command Line Interface
640 ----------------------
642 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
644 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
646 Fix bug in dump header
648 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
649 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
650 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
655 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
657 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
658 =========================
663 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
665 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
668 Command Line Interface
669 ----------------------
671 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
673 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
674 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
675 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
677 New default output format to 3
679 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
680 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
681 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
682 default format changes.
687 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
689 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
690 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
691 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
692 or tree view to resume.
694 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
695 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
696 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
699 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
700 they were when you postponed in the final message.
704 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
705 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
706 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
707 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
708 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
712 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
713 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
714 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
715 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
716 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
717 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
721 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
722 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
724 Stop display of `application/*` parts
726 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
727 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
728 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
729 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
730 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
731 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
732 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
733 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
736 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
738 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
739 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
740 only tagged the current thread.)
742 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
744 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
745 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
746 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
748 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
750 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
751 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
752 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
753 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
754 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
755 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
756 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
758 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
760 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
761 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
762 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
767 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
769 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
772 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
774 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
777 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
778 ===========================
783 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
785 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
786 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
787 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
790 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
791 ===========================
793 Command Line Interface
794 ----------------------
796 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
801 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
803 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
804 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
805 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
807 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
808 ===========================
813 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
814 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
816 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
817 ===========================
819 Command Line Interface
820 ----------------------
822 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
824 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
825 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
826 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
831 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
833 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
834 ===========================
836 Command Line Interface
837 ----------------------
839 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
844 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
846 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
847 ===========================
852 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
854 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
855 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
856 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
858 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
860 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
862 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
863 ===========================
868 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
870 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
875 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
877 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
878 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
879 the original colours.
881 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
882 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
884 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
886 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
887 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
888 bug, and hence the test.
890 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
891 =========================
893 General (Xapian 1.4+)
894 ---------------------
896 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
898 Support for single argument date: queries
900 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
902 Support for blocking opens
904 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
905 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
907 Support for named queries
909 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
910 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
911 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
918 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
919 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
920 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
921 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
923 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
925 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
930 Support for compile time options
932 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
933 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
936 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
938 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
939 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
940 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
941 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
942 scripts to ignore it.
947 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
949 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
950 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
951 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
953 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
954 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
955 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
956 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
957 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
958 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
959 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
961 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
962 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
965 Make internal address completion customizable
967 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
968 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
969 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
970 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
973 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
975 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
976 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
977 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
978 completion for the current buffer.
980 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
981 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
982 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
986 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
987 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
988 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
989 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
990 will be added instead.
992 Face customization is easier
994 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
995 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
996 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
997 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
999 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1004 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1009 Go bindings moved to contrib
1011 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1013 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1015 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1016 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1018 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1020 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1021 ===========================
1028 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1029 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1031 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1033 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1035 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1036 ===========================
1041 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1043 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1048 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1053 Use `env` to locate perl.
1058 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1060 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1062 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1064 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1066 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1067 =========================
1074 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1075 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1077 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1079 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1080 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1081 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1086 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1087 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1088 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1090 Command Line Interface
1091 ----------------------
1093 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1095 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1100 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1105 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1107 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1108 parts are now included in replies.
1110 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1111 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1112 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1113 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1115 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1117 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1119 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1121 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1122 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1123 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1124 forwards only the current message.
1126 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1128 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1129 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1130 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1131 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1132 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1133 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1134 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1135 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1138 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1139 longer generate empty buffers
1141 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1142 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1143 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1144 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1145 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1147 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1149 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1152 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1154 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1157 Address completion improvements
1159 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1160 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1161 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1162 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1163 interactive address completion.
1165 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1167 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1168 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1169 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1174 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1175 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1176 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1182 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1183 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1184 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1185 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1186 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1187 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1189 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1190 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1191 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1192 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1193 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1194 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1196 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1197 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1199 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1200 =========================
1205 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1208 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1210 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1211 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1212 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1214 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1215 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1217 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1218 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1219 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1221 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1223 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1224 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1225 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1226 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1227 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1228 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1233 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1234 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1237 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1238 option to configure.
1240 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1242 Command Line Interface
1243 ----------------------
1245 Database revision tracking
1247 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1248 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1249 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1250 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1252 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1254 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1255 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1256 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1257 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1258 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1259 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1260 manual page for further information.
1265 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1267 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1268 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1270 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1272 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1273 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1274 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1276 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1278 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1280 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1281 customization as well.
1283 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1285 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1287 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1289 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1291 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1292 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1293 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1294 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1296 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1298 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1299 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1300 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1301 this variable to 10000.
1306 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1307 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1309 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1311 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1312 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1313 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1314 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1315 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1316 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1317 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1318 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1319 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1322 Database revision tracking
1324 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1325 query parser and the new function
1326 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1328 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1330 Deprecated functions
1332 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1333 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1334 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1335 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1340 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1342 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1343 ===========================
1348 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1350 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1351 ===========================
1356 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1358 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1359 =========================
1361 Command-Line Interface
1362 ----------------------
1364 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1366 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1367 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1368 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1370 Path to gpg is now configurable
1372 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1373 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1378 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1380 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1385 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1390 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1395 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1397 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1398 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1400 New error logging facility
1402 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1403 output formerly printed to stderr.
1405 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1407 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1409 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1411 Fix for rounding of seconds
1416 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1418 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1419 documentation has been removed.
1421 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1423 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1424 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1429 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1430 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1431 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1436 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1437 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1438 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1439 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1440 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1441 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1444 git checkout config origin/config
1446 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1448 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1449 =========================
1454 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1455 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1456 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1457 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1458 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1459 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1460 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1462 Command-Line Interface
1463 ----------------------
1465 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1467 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1468 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1469 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1470 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1471 script callers should still check the return value.
1473 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1475 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1476 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1477 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1478 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1479 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1480 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1481 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1483 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1485 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1486 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1487 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1489 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1491 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1492 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1493 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1494 currently unmaintained.
1496 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1498 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1499 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1500 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1501 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1503 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1505 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1506 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1507 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1508 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1509 count of duplicate addresses.
1514 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1516 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1517 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1518 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1521 Improved handling of the unread tag
1523 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1524 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1525 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1526 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1527 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1528 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1529 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1531 Expanded default saved search settings
1533 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1534 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1536 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1538 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1539 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1540 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1542 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1544 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1545 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1546 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1547 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1548 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1549 the variable for details.
1554 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1556 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1557 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1558 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1559 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1561 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1563 Previously, library users were required to call
1564 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1565 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1566 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1567 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1568 too out of date for that API.
1570 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1572 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1573 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1574 atomic section will be aborted.
1576 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1577 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1579 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1581 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1582 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1583 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1584 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1585 messages into the same thread.
1590 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1591 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1592 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1593 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1594 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1595 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1600 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1601 from the config file. Use something like:
1605 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1606 "footer": "</body></html>",
1615 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1620 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1621 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1622 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1624 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1625 ===========================
1630 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1632 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1634 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1636 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1637 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1639 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1641 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1644 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1645 ===========================
1647 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1652 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1654 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1656 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1658 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1660 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1666 Use --quick when starting emacs
1668 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1670 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1672 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1674 Command-Line Interface
1675 ----------------------
1677 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1678 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1683 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1685 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1686 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1688 Fix for phrase indexing
1690 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1691 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1692 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1697 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1699 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1700 unintentionally removed.
1702 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1703 =========================
1708 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1709 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1710 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1711 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1712 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1713 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1714 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1715 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1716 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1722 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1724 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1725 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1726 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1727 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1728 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1729 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1730 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1731 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1733 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1735 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1736 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1737 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1738 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1741 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1743 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1744 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1745 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1746 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1747 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1748 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1749 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1754 Notmuch database upgrade
1756 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1757 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1758 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1759 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1760 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1761 released version of Notmuch before now.
1763 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1765 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1766 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1767 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1768 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1770 Message header parsing changes
1772 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1773 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1774 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1775 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1776 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1777 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1779 Command-Line Interface
1780 ----------------------
1782 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1784 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1786 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1788 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1790 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1792 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1793 user does not want it.
1795 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1797 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1798 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1799 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1800 support formatted output.
1802 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1804 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1805 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1806 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1814 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1815 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1816 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1817 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1818 `~/.emacs` with these.
1820 Changed format for saved searches
1822 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1823 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1824 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1825 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1828 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1829 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1830 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1831 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1833 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1834 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1835 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1837 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1838 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1839 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1840 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1841 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1843 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1845 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1846 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1847 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1849 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1851 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1852 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1853 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1854 message had been unread).
1856 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1857 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1858 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1859 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1861 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1862 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1863 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1865 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1866 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1867 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1868 to tags already present.
1872 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1873 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1874 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1875 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1876 these differ from each other.
1877 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1879 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1881 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1882 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1883 for these Emacs versions.
1885 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1887 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1888 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1890 Bug fixes for sender identities
1892 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1893 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1894 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1896 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1898 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1899 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1900 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1901 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1903 Reply pushes mark before signature
1905 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1906 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1907 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1909 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1911 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1912 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1918 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1919 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1921 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1922 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1923 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1924 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1926 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1927 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1928 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1929 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1930 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1932 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1934 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1935 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1937 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1938 =========================
1940 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1941 ---------------------------------------
1943 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1944 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1945 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1946 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1947 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1948 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1949 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1953 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1954 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1956 Command-Line Interface
1957 ----------------------
1959 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1961 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1962 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1963 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1964 print for each message.
1966 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1967 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1968 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1969 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1971 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1973 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1974 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1975 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1977 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1979 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1980 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1981 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1982 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1984 `notmuch compact` command
1986 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1987 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1988 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1989 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1990 move the compacted database into place.
1995 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1997 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1998 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1999 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2000 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2001 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2002 and multiple threads.
2004 Using `notmuch-tree`
2006 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2008 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2009 search, show and tree mode itself)
2011 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2014 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2015 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2017 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2019 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2020 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2021 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2022 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2023 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2024 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2025 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2027 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2029 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2030 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2031 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2032 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2033 thread when the search was performed.
2035 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2037 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2038 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2039 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2041 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2043 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2044 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2047 Built-in help improvements
2049 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2050 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2051 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2053 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2055 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2056 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2057 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2059 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2061 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2062 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2064 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2066 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2067 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2068 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2069 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2071 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2073 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2074 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2075 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2076 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2078 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2080 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2081 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2082 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2084 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2086 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2087 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2088 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2090 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2092 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2093 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2094 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2095 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2096 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2098 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2100 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2101 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2102 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2103 the body part of the message.
2108 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2109 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2110 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2112 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2113 =========================
2115 Command-Line Interface
2116 ----------------------
2118 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2120 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2121 folder and notmuch index.
2123 `notmuch count --batch` option
2125 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2126 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2128 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2130 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2131 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2132 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2135 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2137 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2138 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2139 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2140 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2141 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2144 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2146 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2147 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2149 Top level option to specify configuration file
2151 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2152 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2154 Bash command-line completion
2156 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2157 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2158 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2159 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2160 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2161 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2162 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2163 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2164 bash-completion package.
2166 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2171 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2173 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2174 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2175 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2176 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2177 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2178 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2179 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2180 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2182 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2184 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2185 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2186 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2188 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2190 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2191 previous thread in the search results.
2193 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2195 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2196 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2198 Faster search and show
2200 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2201 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2202 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2203 threads should show faster.
2207 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2208 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2209 in question was now removed from this release.
2214 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2215 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2220 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2222 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2223 ===========================
2228 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2230 Internal test framework changes
2231 -------------------------------
2233 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2234 being unimplemented.
2236 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2237 ===========================
2239 Internal test framework changes
2240 -------------------------------
2242 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2243 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2245 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2246 =========================
2251 Date range search support
2253 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2254 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2255 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2256 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2257 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2260 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2262 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2263 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2264 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2265 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2266 but may be removed in a future release.
2268 Command-Line Interface
2269 ----------------------
2271 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2273 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2274 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2276 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2278 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2279 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2280 officially deprecated.
2282 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2284 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2285 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2286 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2288 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2290 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2291 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2294 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2295 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2296 dump/restore format.
2298 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2300 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2301 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2302 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2304 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2306 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2307 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2308 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2310 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2312 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2313 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2314 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2315 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2320 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2322 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2323 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2324 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2325 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2327 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2329 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2330 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2331 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2332 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2333 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2334 the behavior of this, see
2335 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2336 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2338 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2339 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2340 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2342 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2344 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2345 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2348 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2350 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2351 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2352 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2353 simply displayed in place of the message.
2355 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2357 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2358 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2360 Improved text/calendar content handling
2362 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2363 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2364 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2365 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2367 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2369 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2370 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2371 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2372 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2374 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2376 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2377 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2378 for HTML email containing images.
2380 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2382 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2384 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2386 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2389 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2391 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2392 the point where it was.
2394 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2396 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2397 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2398 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2399 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2400 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2402 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2404 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2405 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2406 thread instead of the message id.
2408 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2409 -----------------------------
2411 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2412 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2413 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2414 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2415 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2416 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2417 further details and installation.
2422 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2424 Internal test framework changes
2425 -------------------------------
2427 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2429 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2430 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2431 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2432 can result in buggy behavior.
2434 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2435 =========================
2440 Maildir tag synchronization
2442 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2443 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2444 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2445 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2446 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2447 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2450 Command-Line Interface
2451 ----------------------
2453 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2454 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2455 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2456 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2457 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2463 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2465 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2467 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2468 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2469 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2471 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2473 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2474 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2475 span multiple lines.
2477 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2479 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2480 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2481 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2482 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2483 inside the result or message.
2485 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2487 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2488 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2490 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2491 user-specified formatting
2493 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2494 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2495 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2496 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2497 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2499 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2500 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2502 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2503 ===========================
2508 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2509 compilation error for this contrib package.
2511 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2512 ===========================
2517 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2519 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2520 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2521 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2522 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2524 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2525 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2528 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2529 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2530 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2531 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2534 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2536 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2539 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2540 =========================
2542 Command-Line Interface
2543 ----------------------
2547 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2548 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2549 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2550 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2552 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2553 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2554 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2555 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2559 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2560 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2562 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2563 tag in your query, for example:
2565 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2567 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2568 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2570 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2571 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2573 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2575 Raw show format changes
2577 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2578 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2579 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2580 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2581 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2582 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2583 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2584 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2586 Listing configuration items
2588 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2594 Changes to tagging interface
2596 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2597 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2598 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2599 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2600 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2601 for more information.
2603 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2604 may need to update in custom configurations.
2606 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2608 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2609 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2610 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2611 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2614 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2615 -----------------------------
2617 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2618 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2619 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2620 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2621 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2622 contrib/ from now on.
2627 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2628 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2630 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2631 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2633 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2634 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2635 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2637 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2638 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2640 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2641 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2642 returning the new database object or directory object.
2649 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2650 compatible with go 1.
2652 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2653 =========================
2655 Command-Line Interface
2656 ----------------------
2660 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2661 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2662 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2663 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2665 Mail store folder/file ignore
2667 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2668 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2669 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2671 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2672 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2674 Unified help and manual pages
2676 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2677 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2680 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2682 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2683 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2691 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2692 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2693 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2694 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2696 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2698 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2699 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2701 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2704 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2705 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2706 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2708 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2710 should be changed to:
2712 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2714 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2716 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2717 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2719 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2721 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2722 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2723 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2724 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2725 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2726 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2730 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2731 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2732 of Mailing List Archives.
2734 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2736 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2737 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2740 Show view archiving key binding changes
2742 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2743 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2744 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2745 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2746 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2749 Support text/calendar MIME type
2751 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2754 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2756 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2757 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2758 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2759 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2761 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2763 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2764 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2765 messages blue by default in the search view.
2769 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2770 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2777 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2780 Python bindings changes
2781 -----------------------
2783 Python 3.2 compatibility
2785 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2787 Added missing unicode conversions
2789 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2790 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2791 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2796 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2798 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2799 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2800 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2801 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2802 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2804 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2805 ===========================
2810 Fix error handling in python bindings
2812 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2813 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2814 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2815 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2817 Quote MML tags in replies
2819 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2820 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2821 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2822 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2823 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2824 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2825 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2826 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2828 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2829 =========================
2831 Command-Line Interface
2832 ----------------------
2836 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2837 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2838 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2839 importing new messages into the database.
2841 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2843 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2844 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2845 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2850 Automatic tag query optimization
2852 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2853 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2854 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2856 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2858 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2859 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2860 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2865 Reduction of memory leaks
2867 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2868 and fixed in this release.
2875 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2876 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2877 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2880 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2882 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2883 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2884 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2887 Improvements in saved search management
2889 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2890 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2891 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2893 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2895 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2896 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2897 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2899 New face for crypto parts headers
2901 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2902 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2903 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2906 Use space as default thousands separator
2908 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2909 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2910 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2912 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2913 buttonized id: links
2915 New function notmuch-show-advance
2917 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2918 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2919 be bound to SPC with:
2921 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2923 Various performance improvements
2928 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2929 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2932 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2933 ===========================
2938 Fix crash in python bindings
2940 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2941 for some, but not all users.
2943 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2944 ===========================
2949 Fix `--help` argument
2951 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2952 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2953 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2955 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2956 =========================
2958 New build and testing features
2959 ------------------------------
2961 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2962 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2963 prerequisites is improved.
2965 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2967 New command-line features
2968 -------------------------
2970 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2972 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2973 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2976 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2978 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2979 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2980 favour of using stdout.
2982 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2984 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2985 limit the number of results shown.
2987 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2989 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2990 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2993 New emacs UI features
2994 ---------------------
2996 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2998 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2999 starting with "tag:".
3001 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3003 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3004 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3006 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3008 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3010 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3012 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3013 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3018 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3020 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3022 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3023 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3024 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3025 requires a database rebuild:
3027 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3028 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3030 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3032 New collection of add-on tools
3033 ------------------------------
3035 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3036 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3037 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3040 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3042 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3043 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3044 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3046 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3047 ========================
3049 New, general features
3050 ---------------------
3052 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3054 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3055 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3056 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3057 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3058 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3065 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3066 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3068 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3072 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3073 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3074 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3077 Python bindings changes
3078 -----------------------
3080 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3082 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3083 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3084 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3085 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3086 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3087 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3089 Ruby bindings changes
3090 ---------------------
3092 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3093 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3094 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3095 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3100 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3102 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3103 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3105 Reply formatting cleanup
3106 ------------------------
3108 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3109 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3111 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3112 ========================
3114 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3116 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3117 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3118 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3119 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3122 Improved Build system portability
3124 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3125 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3126 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3128 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3130 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3132 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3134 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3135 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3136 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3138 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3139 ========================
3141 Vim interface improvements
3142 --------------------------
3144 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3146 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3147 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3148 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3149 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3150 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3152 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3154 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3155 * fix compose temp file name
3157 Python Bindings changes
3158 -----------------------
3160 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3162 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3163 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3165 Build-System improvements
3166 -------------------------
3168 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3170 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3173 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3174 ==========================
3179 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3181 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3182 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3184 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3185 =======================
3187 New, general features
3188 ---------------------
3190 Folder-based searching
3192 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3193 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3194 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3198 For example, one might use things such as:
3204 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3205 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3207 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3208 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3209 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3210 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3212 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3213 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3214 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3217 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3218 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3220 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3222 Support for PGP/MIME
3224 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3225 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3226 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3228 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3230 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3231 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3233 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3234 notmuch will receive these tags.
3236 New command-line features
3237 -------------------------
3239 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3241 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3242 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3244 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3246 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3247 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3248 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3250 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3252 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3253 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3254 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3255 which parts a signature part applies).
3257 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3259 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3260 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3261 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3262 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3263 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3266 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3268 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3269 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3270 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3271 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3272 by translating it internally to the new call.
3274 Performance improvements
3275 ------------------------
3277 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3279 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3280 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3281 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3283 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3284 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3286 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3288 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3289 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3290 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3292 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3293 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3294 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3295 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3297 Faster initial indexing
3299 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3300 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3301 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3303 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3305 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3306 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3307 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3308 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3310 New emacs-interface features
3311 ----------------------------
3313 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3315 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3316 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3317 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3318 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3319 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3320 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3322 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3324 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3325 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3326 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3327 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3329 User-selectable From address
3331 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3332 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3333 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3334 will prompt for the from address to use.
3336 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3337 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3338 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3340 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3341 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3342 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3345 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3347 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3348 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3350 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3352 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3354 ----- Original Message -----
3356 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3357 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3358 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3359 citations work much like conventional citations.
3361 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3363 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3364 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3365 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3366 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3367 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3369 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3370 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3372 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3374 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3375 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3376 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3378 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3380 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3381 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3382 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3383 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3384 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3386 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3388 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3391 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3393 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3395 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3397 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3400 Vim interface improvements
3401 --------------------------
3403 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3405 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3406 * Implementing archive in show view
3407 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3408 * Add delete commands
3411 Bindings improvements
3412 ---------------------
3414 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3416 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3417 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3419 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3421 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3425 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3426 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3427 `list(Messages)` works now
3428 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3430 These allow, for example:
3432 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3434 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3436 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3442 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3444 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3447 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3449 New build-system features
3450 -------------------------
3452 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3454 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3455 the configure script from some other directory:
3462 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3464 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3465 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3466 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3467 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3468 manual invocation of configure.
3470 New test-suite feature
3471 ----------------------
3473 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3475 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3476 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3477 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3478 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3479 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3482 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3484 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3485 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3486 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3487 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3488 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3489 are updated to take advantage of this.
3491 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3493 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3494 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3495 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3496 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3502 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3504 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3505 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3506 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3508 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3510 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3512 to:user@elsewhere.com
3514 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3516 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3518 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3520 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3521 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3522 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3525 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3526 from the Received headers in some cases
3528 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3529 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3531 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3533 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3535 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3537 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3538 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3539 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3541 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3542 -------------------------
3544 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3546 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3547 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3548 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3550 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3552 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3553 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3554 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3557 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3559 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3560 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3561 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3562 fixed to avoid this bug.
3564 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3566 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3567 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3569 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3570 ========================
3572 New, general features
3573 ---------------------
3575 Maildir-flag synchronization
3577 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3578 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3587 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3589 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3590 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3591 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3592 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3594 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3595 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3596 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3597 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3600 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3602 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3603 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3604 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3606 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3607 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3609 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3610 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3612 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3613 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3614 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3616 New library features
3617 --------------------
3619 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3621 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3622 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3623 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3624 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3626 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3627 message with the new function:
3629 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3631 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3632 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3633 over all available filenames for a given message.
3635 New command-line features
3636 -------------------------
3638 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3640 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3641 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3642 access to the mail store itself.
3644 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3645 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3646 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3647 name of a script containing:
3649 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3651 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3652 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3658 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3660 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3662 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3664 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3665 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3666 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3667 now produces nothing).
3669 Emacs interface improvements
3670 ----------------------------
3672 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3674 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3676 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3678 Display current thread subject in a header line
3680 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3682 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3684 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3685 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3686 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3687 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3688 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3689 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3690 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3692 Vim interface improvements
3693 --------------------------
3695 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3697 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3698 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3704 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3706 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3707 ========================
3709 New command-line features
3710 -------------------------
3712 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3714 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3715 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3716 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3718 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3719 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3720 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3721 scripts. For example:
3723 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3724 <operations-on> "$file"
3727 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3729 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3730 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3731 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3732 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3733 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3734 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3736 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3738 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3739 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3740 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3741 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3743 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3745 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3746 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3747 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3748 default rather than Bcc.
3750 New library features
3751 --------------------
3753 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3755 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3756 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3761 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3763 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3764 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3765 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3766 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3767 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3768 notmuch customize interface.
3770 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3772 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3773 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3774 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3775 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3777 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3779 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3780 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3781 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3782 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3784 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3786 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3787 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3788 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3789 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3790 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3791 notmuch customize interface.
3793 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3795 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3796 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3797 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3798 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3799 notmuch customize interface.
3801 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3803 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3804 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3805 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3806 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3809 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3811 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3812 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3813 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3816 New build-system features
3817 -------------------------
3819 Various portability fixes have been applied
3821 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3822 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3823 more portable than ever before.
3825 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3827 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3828 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3829 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3831 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3832 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3833 automatically run ldconfig.
3835 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3836 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3837 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3839 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3840 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3841 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3842 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3844 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3846 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3847 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3848 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3849 used in the resulting Makefile.
3851 New test-suite features
3852 -----------------------
3854 New modularization of test suite
3856 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3857 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3858 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3859 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3860 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3861 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3862 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3863 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3865 New testing of emacs interface
3867 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3868 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3869 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3870 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3871 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3872 database via the FCC setting.
3877 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3879 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3880 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3881 persistent error of the form:
3883 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3885 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3886 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3888 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3890 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3891 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3892 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3894 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3896 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3897 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3898 parsing the notmuch results).
3900 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3902 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3905 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3906 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3907 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3912 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3914 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3915 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3916 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3917 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3918 the emacs interface.
3920 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3922 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3923 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3924 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3926 Python-binding fixes
3927 --------------------
3929 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3931 Debian-specific fixes
3932 ---------------------
3934 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3936 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3937 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3938 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3941 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3942 ==========================
3947 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3949 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3950 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3951 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3952 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3954 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3956 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3957 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3958 want notmuch to crash.
3963 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3965 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3966 directory does not exist
3971 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3973 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3974 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3976 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3977 ========================
3979 New command-line features
3980 -------------------------
3982 User-configurable tags for new messages
3984 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3985 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3986 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3987 to specify this value.
3989 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3991 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3992 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3993 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3995 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3997 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3998 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4000 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4002 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4003 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4004 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4005 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4006 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4009 Indication of author names that match a search
4011 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4012 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4013 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4014 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4015 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4016 messages in the thread are listed first.
4018 New: Python bindings
4019 --------------------
4021 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4022 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4023 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4024 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4026 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4027 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4028 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4031 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4032 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4033 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4035 Emacs interface improvements
4036 ----------------------------
4038 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4040 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4041 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4042 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4043 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4044 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4045 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4046 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4047 but without any of the disadvantages).
4049 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4050 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4051 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4054 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4055 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4056 instead running something like:
4058 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4060 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4061 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4062 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4065 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4067 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4068 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4069 tweaked by the user.
4071 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4072 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4073 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4076 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4077 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4078 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4081 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4083 This support currently relies on an external program,
4084 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4085 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4086 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4087 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4088 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4091 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4092 notmuch) is available via:
4094 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4096 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4097 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4098 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4100 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4102 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4103 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4104 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4105 making this automatic in a future release.
4107 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4109 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4110 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4111 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4112 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4113 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4114 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4117 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4119 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4120 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4121 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4123 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4125 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4126 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4127 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4129 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4130 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4131 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4132 other representation.
4134 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4135 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4138 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4140 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4141 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4142 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4144 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4145 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4146 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4148 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4150 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4151 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4152 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4153 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4154 to display the search result.
4156 More flexible handling of header visibility
4158 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4159 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4160 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4161 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4162 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4163 with the 'h' keybinding.
4165 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4166 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4167 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4169 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4171 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4173 Customizable formatting of search results
4175 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4176 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4177 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4179 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4181 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4183 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4188 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4190 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4191 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4192 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4193 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4199 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4201 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4202 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4204 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4206 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4207 accept are now all accepted.
4212 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4214 Better display of output from failed tests
4216 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4217 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4219 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4220 ========================
4222 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4223 detailed release notes this time!
4225 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4226 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4228 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4229 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4230 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4231 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4238 Better guessing of From: header
4240 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4241 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4242 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4243 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4244 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4247 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4249 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4250 guaranteed to match all messages.
4252 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4254 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4255 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4256 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4257 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4258 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4261 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4264 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4265 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4266 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4267 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4272 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4274 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4275 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4276 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4277 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4279 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4281 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4283 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4284 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4285 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4287 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4289 Previously, the user might see:
4291 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4295 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4297 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4298 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4299 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4300 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4302 Emacs client features
4303 ---------------------
4305 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4307 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4308 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4309 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4310 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4311 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4313 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4316 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4317 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4318 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4319 search with the '*' binding.
4321 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4323 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4324 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4327 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4329 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4330 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4331 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4333 Build-system features
4334 ---------------------
4336 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4338 Add support to configure for many standard options
4340 We include actual support for:
4342 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4344 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4346 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4347 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4349 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4350 separate "make install-emacs"
4352 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4354 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4355 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4356 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4358 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4361 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4362 ========================
4364 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4366 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4367 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4369 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4370 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4371 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4372 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4373 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4374 tags from messages in a thread.
4381 indent-tabs-mode: nil