1 Notmuch 0.24.1 (UNRELEASED)
2 ===========================
7 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`.
9 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
10 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
13 Command Line Interface
14 ----------------------
16 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`.
18 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes.
23 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
25 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
26 =========================
31 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`.
33 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
36 Command Line Interface
37 ----------------------
39 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
41 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
42 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
43 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
45 New default output format to 3
47 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
48 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
49 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
50 default format changes.
55 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
57 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
58 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
59 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
60 or tree view to resume.
62 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
63 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
64 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
67 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
68 they were when you postponed in the final message.
72 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
73 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
74 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
75 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
76 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
80 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
81 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
82 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
83 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
84 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
85 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
89 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
90 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
92 Stop display of application/* parts
94 By default gnus displays all application/* parts such as
95 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
96 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
97 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
98 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
99 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
100 application/* add application/* to your customization. If you want
101 to allow application/* then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
104 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
106 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
107 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
108 only tagged the current thread.)
110 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers.
112 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
113 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
114 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
116 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
118 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
119 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
120 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
121 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
122 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
123 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
124 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
126 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
128 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
129 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
130 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
135 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive.
137 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
140 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
142 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
145 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
146 ===========================
151 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
153 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
154 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
155 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
158 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
159 ===========================
161 Command Line Interface
162 ----------------------
164 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
169 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
171 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
172 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
173 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
175 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
176 ===========================
181 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
182 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
184 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
185 ===========================
187 Command Line Interface
188 ----------------------
190 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
192 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
193 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
194 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
199 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
201 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
202 ===========================
204 Command Line Interface
205 ----------------------
207 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
212 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
214 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
215 ===========================
220 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
222 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
223 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
224 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
226 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
228 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
230 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
231 ===========================
236 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
238 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
243 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
245 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
246 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
247 the original colours.
249 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
250 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
252 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
254 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
255 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
256 bug, and hence the test.
258 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
259 =========================
261 General (Xapian 1.4+)
262 ---------------------
264 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
266 Support for single argument date: queries
268 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
270 Support for blocking opens
272 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
273 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
275 Support for named queries
277 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
278 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
279 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
286 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
287 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
288 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
289 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
291 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
293 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
298 Support for compile time options
300 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
301 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
304 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
306 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
307 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
308 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
309 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
310 scripts to ignore it.
315 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
317 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
318 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
319 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
321 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
322 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
323 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
324 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
325 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
326 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
327 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
329 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
330 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
333 Make internal address completion customizable
335 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
336 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
337 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
338 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
341 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
343 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
344 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
345 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
346 completion for the current buffer.
348 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
349 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
350 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
354 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
355 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
356 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
357 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
358 will be added instead.
360 Face customization is easier
362 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
363 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
364 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
365 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
367 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
372 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
377 Go bindings moved to contrib
379 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
381 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
383 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
384 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
386 The same issue occured with sort modes.
388 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
389 ===========================
396 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
397 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
399 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
401 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
403 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
404 ===========================
409 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
411 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
416 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
421 Use `env` to locate perl.
426 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
428 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
430 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
432 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
434 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
435 =========================
442 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
443 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
445 Limited support for S/MIME messages
447 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
448 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
449 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
454 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
455 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
456 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
458 Command Line Interface
459 ----------------------
461 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
463 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
468 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
473 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
475 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
476 parts are now included in replies.
478 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
479 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
480 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
481 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
483 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
485 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
487 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
489 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
490 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
491 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
492 forwards only the current message.
494 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
496 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
497 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
498 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
499 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
500 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
501 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
502 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
503 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
506 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
507 longer generate empty buffers
509 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
510 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
511 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
512 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
513 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
515 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
517 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
520 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
522 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
525 Address completion improvements
527 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
528 you previously configured one, customize the variable
529 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
530 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
531 interactive address completion.
533 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
535 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
536 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
537 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
542 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
543 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
544 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
550 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
551 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
552 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
553 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
554 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
555 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
557 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
558 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
559 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
560 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
561 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
562 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
564 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
565 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
567 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
568 =========================
573 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
576 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
578 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
579 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
580 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
582 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
583 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
585 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
586 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
587 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
589 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
591 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
592 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
593 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
594 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
595 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
596 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
601 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
602 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
605 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
608 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
610 Command Line Interface
611 ----------------------
613 Database revision tracking
615 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
616 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
617 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
618 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
620 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
622 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
623 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
624 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
625 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
626 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
627 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
628 manual page for further information.
633 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
635 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
636 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
638 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
640 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
641 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
642 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
644 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
646 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
648 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
649 customization as well.
651 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
653 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
655 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
657 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
659 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
660 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
661 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
662 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
664 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
666 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
667 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
668 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
669 this variable to 10000.
674 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
675 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
677 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
679 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
680 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
681 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
682 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
683 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
684 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
685 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
686 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
687 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
690 Database revision tracking
692 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
693 query parser and the new function
694 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
696 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
700 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
701 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
702 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
703 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
708 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
710 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
711 ===========================
716 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
718 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
719 ===========================
724 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
726 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
727 =========================
729 Command-Line Interface
730 ----------------------
732 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
734 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
735 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
736 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
738 Path to gpg is now configurable
740 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
741 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
746 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
748 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
753 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
758 Support messages without Message-IDs.
763 Undeprecate single message mboxes
765 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
766 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
768 New error logging facility
770 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
771 output formerly printed to stderr.
773 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
775 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
777 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
779 Fix for rounding of seconds
784 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
786 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
787 docmumentation has been removed.
789 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
791 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
792 some material from the relicensed wiki.
797 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
798 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
799 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
804 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
805 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
806 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
807 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
808 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
809 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
812 git checkout config origin/config
814 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
816 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
817 =========================
822 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
823 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
824 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
825 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
826 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
827 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
828 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
830 Command-Line Interface
831 ----------------------
833 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
835 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
836 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
837 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
838 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
839 script callers should still check the return value.
841 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
843 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
844 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
845 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
846 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
847 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
848 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
849 and returning success even if indexing fails).
851 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
853 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
854 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
855 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
857 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
859 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
860 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
861 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
862 currently unmaintained.
864 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
866 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
867 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
868 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
869 have at least `N` files associated with them.
871 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
873 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
874 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
875 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
876 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
877 count of duplicate addresses.
882 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
884 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
885 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
886 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
889 Improved handling of the unread tag
891 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
892 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
893 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
894 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
895 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
896 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
897 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
899 Expanded default saved search settings
901 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
902 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
904 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
906 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
907 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
908 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
910 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
912 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
913 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
914 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
915 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
916 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
917 the variable for details.
922 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
924 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
925 Representing these independently of the database version number will
926 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
927 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
929 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
931 Previously, library users were required to call
932 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
933 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
934 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
935 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
936 too out of date for that API.
938 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
940 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
941 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
942 atomic section will be aborted.
944 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
945 `notmuch_database_destroy`
947 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
949 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
950 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
951 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
952 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
953 messages into the same thread.
958 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
959 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
960 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
961 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
962 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
963 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
968 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
969 from the config file. Use something like:
973 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
974 "footer": "</body></html>",
983 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
988 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
989 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
990 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
992 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
993 ===========================
998 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1000 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1002 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1004 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1005 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1007 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1009 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1012 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1013 ===========================
1015 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1020 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1022 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1024 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1026 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1028 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1034 Use --quick when starting emacs
1036 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1038 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1040 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1042 Command-Line Interface
1043 ----------------------
1045 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1046 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1051 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1053 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1054 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1056 Fix for phrase indexing
1058 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1059 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1060 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1065 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1067 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1068 unintentionally removed.
1070 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1071 =========================
1076 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1077 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1078 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1079 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1080 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1081 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1082 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1083 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1084 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1090 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1092 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1093 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1094 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1095 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1096 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1097 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1098 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1099 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1101 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1103 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1104 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1105 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1106 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1109 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1111 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1112 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1113 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1114 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1115 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1116 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1117 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1122 Notmuch database upgrade
1124 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1125 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1126 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1127 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1128 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1129 released version of Notmuch before now.
1131 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1133 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1134 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1135 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1136 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1138 Message header parsing changes
1140 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1141 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1142 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1143 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1144 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1145 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1147 Command-Line Interface
1148 ----------------------
1150 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1152 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1154 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1156 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1158 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1160 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1161 user does not want it.
1163 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1165 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1166 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1167 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1168 support formatted output.
1170 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1172 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1173 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1174 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1182 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1183 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1184 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1185 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1186 `~/.emacs` with these.
1188 Changed format for saved searches
1190 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1191 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1192 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1193 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1196 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1197 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1198 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1199 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1201 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1202 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1203 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1205 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1206 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1207 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1208 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1209 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1211 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1213 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1214 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1215 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1217 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1219 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1220 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1221 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1222 message had been unread).
1224 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1225 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1226 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1227 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1229 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1230 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1231 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1233 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1234 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1235 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1236 to tags already present.
1240 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1241 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1242 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1243 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1244 these differ from each other.
1245 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1247 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1249 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1250 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1251 for these Emacs versions.
1253 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1255 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1256 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1258 Bug fixes for sender identities
1260 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1261 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1262 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1264 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1266 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1267 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1268 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1269 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1271 Reply pushes mark before signature
1273 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1274 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1275 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1277 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1279 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1280 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1286 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1287 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1289 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1290 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1291 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1292 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1294 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1295 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1296 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1297 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1298 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1300 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1302 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1303 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1305 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1306 =========================
1308 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1309 ---------------------------------------
1311 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1312 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1313 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1314 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1315 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1316 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1317 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1321 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1322 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1324 Command-Line Interface
1325 ----------------------
1327 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1329 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1330 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1331 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1332 print for each message.
1334 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1335 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1336 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1337 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1339 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1341 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1342 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1343 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1345 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1347 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1348 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1349 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1350 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1352 `notmuch compact` command
1354 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1355 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1356 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1357 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1358 move the compacted database into place.
1363 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1365 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1366 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1367 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1368 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1369 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1370 and multiple threads.
1372 Using `notmuch-tree`
1374 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1376 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1377 search, show and tree mode itself)
1379 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1382 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1383 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1385 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1387 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1388 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1389 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1390 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1391 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1392 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1393 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1395 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1397 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1398 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1399 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1400 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1401 thread when the search was performed.
1403 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1405 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1406 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1407 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1409 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1411 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1412 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1415 Built-in help improvements
1417 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1418 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1419 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1421 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1423 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1424 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1425 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1427 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1429 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1430 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1432 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1434 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1435 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1436 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1437 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1439 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1441 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1442 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1443 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1444 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1446 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1448 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1449 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1450 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1452 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1454 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1455 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1456 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1458 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1460 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1461 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1462 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1463 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1464 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1466 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1468 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1469 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1470 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1471 the body part of the message.
1476 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1477 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1478 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1480 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1481 =========================
1483 Command-Line Interface
1484 ----------------------
1486 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1488 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1489 folder and notmuch index.
1491 `notmuch count --batch` option
1493 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1494 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1496 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1498 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1499 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1500 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1503 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1505 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1506 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1507 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1508 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1509 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1512 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1514 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1515 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1517 Top level option to specify configuration file
1519 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1520 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1522 Bash command-line completion
1524 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1525 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1526 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1527 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1528 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1529 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1530 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1531 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1532 bash-completion package.
1534 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1539 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1541 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1542 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1543 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1544 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1545 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1546 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1547 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1548 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1550 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1552 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1553 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1554 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1556 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1558 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1559 previous thread in the search results.
1561 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1563 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1564 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1566 Faster search and show
1568 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1569 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1570 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1571 threads should show faster.
1575 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1576 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1577 in question was now removed from this release.
1582 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1583 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1588 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1590 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1591 ===========================
1596 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1598 Internal test framework changes
1599 -------------------------------
1601 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1602 being unimplemented.
1604 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1605 ===========================
1607 Internal test framework changes
1608 -------------------------------
1610 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1611 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1613 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1614 =========================
1619 Date range search support
1621 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1622 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1623 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1624 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1625 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1628 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1630 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1631 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1632 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1633 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1634 but may be removed in a future release.
1636 Command-Line Interface
1637 ----------------------
1639 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1641 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1642 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1644 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1646 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1647 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1648 officially deprecated.
1650 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1652 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1653 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1654 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1656 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1658 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1659 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1662 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1663 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1664 dump/restore format.
1666 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1668 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1669 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1670 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1672 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1674 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1675 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1676 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1678 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1680 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1681 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1682 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1683 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1688 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1690 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1691 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1692 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1693 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1695 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1697 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1698 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1699 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1700 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1701 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1702 the behavior of this, see
1703 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1704 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1706 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1707 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1708 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1710 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1712 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1713 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1716 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1718 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1719 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1720 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1721 simply displayed in place of the message.
1723 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1725 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1726 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1728 Improved text/calendar content handling
1730 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1731 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1732 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1733 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1735 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1737 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1738 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1739 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1740 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1742 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1744 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1745 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1746 for HTML email containing images.
1748 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1750 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1752 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1754 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1757 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1759 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1760 the point where it was.
1762 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1764 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1765 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1766 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1767 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1768 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1770 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1772 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1773 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1774 thread instead of the message id.
1776 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1777 -----------------------------
1779 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1780 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1781 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1782 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1783 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1784 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1785 further details and installation.
1790 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1792 Internal test framework changes
1793 -------------------------------
1795 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1797 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1798 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1799 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1800 can result in buggy behavior.
1802 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1803 =========================
1808 Maildir tag synchronization
1810 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1811 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1812 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1813 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1814 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1815 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1818 Command-Line Interface
1819 ----------------------
1821 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1822 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1823 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1824 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1825 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1831 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1833 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1835 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1836 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1837 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1839 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1841 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1842 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1843 span multiple lines.
1845 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1847 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1848 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1849 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1850 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1851 inside the result or message.
1853 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1855 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1856 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1858 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1859 user-specified formatting
1861 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1862 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1863 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1864 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1865 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1867 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1868 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1870 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1871 ===========================
1876 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1877 compilation error for this contrib package.
1879 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1880 ===========================
1885 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1887 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1888 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1889 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1890 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1892 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1893 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1896 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1897 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1898 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1899 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1902 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1904 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1907 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1908 =========================
1910 Command-Line Interface
1911 ----------------------
1915 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1916 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1917 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1918 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1920 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1921 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1922 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1923 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1927 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1928 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1930 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1931 tag in your query, for example:
1933 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1935 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1936 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1938 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1939 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1941 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1943 Raw show format changes
1945 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1946 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1947 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1948 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1949 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1950 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1951 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1952 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1954 Listing configuration items
1956 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1962 Changes to tagging interface
1964 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1965 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1966 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1967 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1968 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1969 for more information.
1971 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1972 may need to update in custom configurations.
1974 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1976 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1977 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1978 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1979 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1982 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1983 -----------------------------
1985 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1986 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1987 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1988 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1989 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1990 contrib/ from now on.
1995 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1996 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1998 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1999 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2001 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2002 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2003 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2005 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2006 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2008 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2009 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2010 returning the new database object or directory object.
2017 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2018 compatible with go 1.
2020 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2021 =========================
2023 Command-Line Interface
2024 ----------------------
2028 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2029 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2030 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2031 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2033 Mail store folder/file ignore
2035 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2036 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2037 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2039 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2040 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2042 Unified help and manual pages
2044 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2045 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2048 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2050 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2051 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2059 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2060 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2061 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2062 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2064 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2066 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2067 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2069 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2072 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2073 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2074 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2076 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2078 should be changed to:
2080 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2082 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2084 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2085 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2087 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2089 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2090 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2091 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2092 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2093 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2094 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2098 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2099 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2100 of Mailing List Archives.
2102 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2104 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2105 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2108 Show view archiving key binding changes
2110 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2111 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2112 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2113 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2114 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2117 Support text/calendar MIME type
2119 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2122 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2124 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2125 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2126 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2127 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2129 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2131 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2132 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2133 messages blue by default in the search view.
2137 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2138 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2145 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2148 Python bindings changes
2149 -----------------------
2151 Python 3.2 compatibility
2153 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2155 Added missing unicode conversions
2157 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2158 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2159 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2164 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2166 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2167 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2168 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2169 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2170 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2172 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2173 ===========================
2178 Fix error handling in python bindings
2180 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2181 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2182 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2183 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2185 Quote MML tags in replies
2187 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2188 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2189 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2190 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2191 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2192 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2193 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2194 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2196 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2197 =========================
2199 Command-Line Interface
2200 ----------------------
2204 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2205 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2206 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2207 importing new messages into the database.
2209 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2211 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2212 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2213 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2218 Automatic tag query optimization
2220 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2221 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2222 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2224 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2226 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2227 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2228 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2233 Reduction of memory leaks
2235 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2236 and fixed in this release.
2243 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2244 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2245 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2248 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2250 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2251 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2252 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2255 Improvements in saved search management
2257 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2258 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2259 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2261 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2263 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2264 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2265 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2267 New face for crypto parts headers
2269 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2270 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2271 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2274 Use space as default thousands separator
2276 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2277 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2278 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2280 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2281 buttonized id: links
2283 New function notmuch-show-advance
2285 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2286 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2287 be bound to SPC with:
2289 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2291 Various performance improvements
2296 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2297 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2300 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2301 ===========================
2306 Fix crash in python bindings
2308 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2309 for some, but not all users.
2311 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2312 ===========================
2317 Fix `--help` argument
2319 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2320 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2321 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2323 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2324 =========================
2326 New build and testing features
2327 ------------------------------
2329 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2330 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2331 prerequisites is improved.
2333 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2335 New command-line features
2336 -------------------------
2338 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2340 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2341 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2344 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2346 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2347 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2348 favour of using stdout.
2350 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2352 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2353 limit the number of results shown.
2355 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2357 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2358 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2361 New emacs UI features
2362 ---------------------
2364 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2366 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2367 starting with "tag:".
2369 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2371 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2372 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2374 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2376 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2378 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2380 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2381 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2386 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2388 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2390 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2391 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2392 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2393 requires a database rebuild:
2395 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2396 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2398 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2400 New collection of add-on tools
2401 ------------------------------
2403 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2404 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2405 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2408 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2410 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2411 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2412 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2414 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2415 ========================
2417 New, general features
2418 ---------------------
2420 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2422 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2423 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2424 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2425 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2426 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2433 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2434 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2436 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2440 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2441 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2442 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2445 Python bindings changes
2446 -----------------------
2448 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2450 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2451 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2452 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2453 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2454 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2455 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2457 Ruby bindings changes
2458 ---------------------
2460 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2461 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2462 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2463 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2468 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2470 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2471 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2473 Reply formatting cleanup
2474 ------------------------
2476 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2477 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2479 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2480 ========================
2482 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2484 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2485 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2486 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2487 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2490 Improved Build system portability
2492 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2493 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2494 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2496 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2498 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2500 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2502 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2503 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2504 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2506 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2507 ========================
2509 Vim interface improvements
2510 --------------------------
2512 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2514 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2515 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2516 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2517 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2518 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2520 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2522 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2523 * fix compose temp file name
2525 Python Bindings changes
2526 -----------------------
2528 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2530 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2531 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2533 Build-System improvements
2534 -------------------------
2536 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2538 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2541 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2542 ==========================
2547 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2549 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2550 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2552 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2553 =======================
2555 New, general features
2556 ---------------------
2558 Folder-based searching
2560 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2561 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2562 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2566 For example, one might use things such as:
2572 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2573 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2575 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2576 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2577 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2578 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2580 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2581 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2582 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2585 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2586 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2588 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2590 Support for PGP/MIME
2592 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2593 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2594 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2596 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2598 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2599 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2601 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2602 notmuch will receive these tags.
2604 New command-line features
2605 -------------------------
2607 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2609 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2610 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2612 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2614 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2615 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2616 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2618 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2620 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2621 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2622 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2623 which parts a signature part applies).
2625 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2627 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2628 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2629 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2630 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2631 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2634 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2636 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2637 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2638 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2639 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2640 by translating it internally to the new call.
2642 Performance improvements
2643 ------------------------
2645 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2647 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2648 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2649 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2651 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2652 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2654 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2656 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2657 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2658 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2660 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2661 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2662 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2663 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2665 Faster initial indexing
2667 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2668 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2669 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2671 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2673 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2674 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2675 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2676 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2678 New emacs-interface features
2679 ----------------------------
2681 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2683 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2684 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2685 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2686 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2687 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2688 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2690 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2692 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2693 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2694 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2695 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2697 User-selectable From address
2699 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2700 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2701 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2702 will prompt for the from address to use.
2704 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2705 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2706 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2708 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2709 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2710 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2713 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2715 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2716 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2718 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2720 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2722 ----- Original Message -----
2724 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2725 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2726 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2727 citations work much like conventional citations.
2729 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2731 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2732 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2733 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2734 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2735 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2737 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2738 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2740 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2742 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2743 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2744 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2746 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2748 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2749 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2750 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2751 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2752 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2754 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2756 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2759 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2761 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2763 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2765 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2768 Vim interface improvements
2769 --------------------------
2771 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2773 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2774 * Implementing archive in show view
2775 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2776 * Add delete commands
2779 Bindings improvements
2780 ---------------------
2782 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2784 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2785 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2787 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2789 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2793 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2794 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2795 `list(Messages)` works now
2796 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2798 These allow, for example:
2800 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2802 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2804 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2810 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2812 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2815 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2817 New build-system features
2818 -------------------------
2820 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2822 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2823 the configure script from some other directory:
2830 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2832 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2833 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2834 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2835 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2836 manual invocation of configure.
2838 New test-suite feature
2839 ----------------------
2841 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2843 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2844 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2845 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2846 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2847 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2850 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2852 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2853 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2854 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2855 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2856 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2857 are updated to take advantage of this.
2859 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2861 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2862 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2863 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2864 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2870 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2872 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2873 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2874 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2876 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2878 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2880 to:user@elsewhere.com
2882 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2884 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2886 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2888 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2889 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2890 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2893 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2894 from the Received headers in some cases
2896 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2897 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2899 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2901 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2903 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2905 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2906 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2907 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2909 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2910 -------------------------
2912 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2914 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2915 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2916 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2918 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2920 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2921 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2922 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2925 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2927 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2928 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2929 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2930 fixed to avoid this bug.
2932 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2934 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2935 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2937 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2938 ========================
2940 New, general features
2941 ---------------------
2943 Maildir-flag synchronization
2945 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2946 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2955 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2957 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2958 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2959 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2960 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2962 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2963 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2964 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2965 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2968 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2970 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2971 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2972 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2974 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2975 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2977 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2978 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2980 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2981 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2982 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2984 New library features
2985 --------------------
2987 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2989 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2990 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2991 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2992 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2994 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2995 message with the new function:
2997 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2999 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3000 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3001 over all available filenames for a given message.
3003 New command-line features
3004 -------------------------
3006 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3008 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3009 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3010 access to the mail store itself.
3012 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3013 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3014 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3015 name of a script containing:
3017 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3019 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3020 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3026 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3028 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3030 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3032 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3033 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3034 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3035 now produces nothing).
3037 Emacs interface improvements
3038 ----------------------------
3040 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3042 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3044 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3046 Display current thread subject in a header line
3048 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3050 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3052 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3053 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3054 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3055 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3056 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3057 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3058 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3060 Vim interface improvements
3061 --------------------------
3063 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3065 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3066 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3072 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3074 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3075 ========================
3077 New command-line features
3078 -------------------------
3080 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3082 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3083 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3084 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3086 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3087 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3088 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3089 scripts. For example:
3091 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3092 <operations-on> "$file"
3095 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3097 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3098 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3099 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3100 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3101 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3102 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3104 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3106 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3107 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3108 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3109 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3111 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3113 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3114 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3115 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3116 default rather than Bcc.
3118 New library features
3119 --------------------
3121 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3123 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3124 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3129 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3131 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3132 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3133 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3134 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3135 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3136 notmuch customize interface.
3138 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3140 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3141 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3142 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3143 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3145 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3147 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3148 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3149 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3150 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3152 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3154 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3155 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3156 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3157 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3158 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3159 notmuch customize interface.
3161 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3163 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3164 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3165 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3166 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3167 notmuch customize interface.
3169 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3171 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3172 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3173 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3174 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3177 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3179 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3180 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3181 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3184 New build-system features
3185 -------------------------
3187 Various portability fixes have been applied
3189 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3190 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3191 more portable than ever before.
3193 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3195 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3196 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3197 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3199 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3200 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3201 automatically run ldconfig.
3203 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3204 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3205 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3207 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3208 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3209 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3210 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3212 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3214 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3215 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3216 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3217 used in the resulting Makefile.
3219 New test-suite features
3220 -----------------------
3222 New modularization of test suite
3224 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3225 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3226 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3227 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3228 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3229 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3230 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3231 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3233 New testing of emacs interface
3235 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3236 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3237 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3238 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3239 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3240 database via the FCC setting.
3245 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3247 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3248 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3249 persistent error of the form:
3251 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3253 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3254 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3256 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3258 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3259 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3260 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3262 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3264 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3265 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3266 parsing the notmuch results).
3268 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3270 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3273 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3274 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3275 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3280 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3282 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3283 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3284 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3285 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3286 the emacs interface.
3288 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3290 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3291 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3292 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3294 Python-binding fixes
3295 --------------------
3297 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3299 Debian-specific fixes
3300 ---------------------
3302 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3304 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3305 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3306 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3309 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3310 ==========================
3315 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3317 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3318 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3319 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3320 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3322 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3324 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3325 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3326 want notmuch to crash.
3331 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3333 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3334 directory does not exist
3339 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3341 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3342 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3344 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3345 ========================
3347 New command-line features
3348 -------------------------
3350 User-configurable tags for new messages
3352 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3353 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3354 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3355 to specify this value.
3357 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3359 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3360 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3361 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3363 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3365 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3366 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3368 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3370 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3371 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3372 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3373 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3374 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3377 Indication of author names that match a search
3379 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3380 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3381 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3382 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3383 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3384 messages in the thread are listed first.
3386 New: Python bindings
3387 --------------------
3389 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3390 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3391 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3392 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3394 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3395 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3396 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3399 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3400 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3401 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3403 Emacs interface improvements
3404 ----------------------------
3406 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3408 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3409 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3410 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3411 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3412 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3413 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3414 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3415 but without any of the disadvantages).
3417 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3418 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3419 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3422 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3423 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3424 instead running something like:
3426 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3428 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3429 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3430 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3433 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3435 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3436 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3437 tweaked by the user.
3439 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3440 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3441 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3444 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3445 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3446 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3449 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3451 This support currently relies on an external program,
3452 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3453 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3454 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3455 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3456 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3459 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3460 notmuch) is available via:
3462 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3464 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3465 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3466 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3468 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3470 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3471 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3472 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3473 making this automatic in a future release.
3475 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3477 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3478 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3479 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3480 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3481 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3482 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3485 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3487 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3488 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3489 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3491 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3493 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3494 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3495 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3497 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3498 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3499 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3500 other representation.
3502 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3503 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3506 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3508 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3509 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3510 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3512 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3513 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3514 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3516 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3518 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3519 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3520 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3521 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3522 to display the search result.
3524 More flexible handling of header visibility
3526 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3527 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3528 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3529 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3530 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3531 with the 'h' keybinding.
3533 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3534 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3535 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3537 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3539 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3541 Customizable formatting of search results
3543 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3544 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3545 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3547 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3549 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3551 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3556 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3558 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3559 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3560 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3561 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3567 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3569 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3570 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3572 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3574 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3575 accept are now all accepted.
3580 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3582 Better display of output from failed tests
3584 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3585 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3587 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3588 ========================
3590 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3591 detailed release notes this time!
3593 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3594 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3596 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3597 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3598 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3599 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3606 Better guessing of From: header
3608 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3609 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3610 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3611 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3612 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3615 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3617 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3618 guaranteed to match all messages.
3620 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3622 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3623 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3624 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3625 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3626 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3629 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3632 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3633 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3634 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3635 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3640 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3642 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3643 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3644 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3645 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3647 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3649 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3651 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3652 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3653 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3655 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3657 Previously, the user might see:
3659 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3663 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3665 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3666 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3667 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3668 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3670 Emacs client features
3671 ---------------------
3673 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3675 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3676 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3677 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3678 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3679 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3681 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3684 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3685 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3686 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3687 search with the '*' binding.
3689 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3691 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3692 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3695 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3697 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3698 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3699 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3701 Build-system features
3702 ---------------------
3704 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3706 Add support to configure for many standard options
3708 We include actual support for:
3710 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3712 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3714 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3715 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3717 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3718 separate "make install-emacs"
3720 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3722 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3723 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3724 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3726 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3729 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3730 ========================
3732 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3734 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3735 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3737 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3738 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3739 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3740 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3741 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3742 tags from messages in a thread.
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