1 Notmuch 0.37 (2022-08-21)
2 =========================
7 Fix uninitialized field in message objects.
9 Improve exception handling and error propagation for message objects.
14 Add one sided lastmod ranges for sexp queries.
16 Expand macro parameters inside regex and wildcard modifiers.
18 Command Line Interface
19 ----------------------
21 `notmuch help` now works for external commands.
23 `NOTMUCH_CONFIG` is now passed to external commands and hooks.
25 Promote the development tool `nmbug` to a user facing tool
26 `notmuch-git`. See notmuch-git(1) for details.
31 The function `notmuch-mua-mail` now moves point depending on the
34 Restrict what mime types are inlined in replies and on refresh.
36 The functions in notmuch-query.el are now obsolete and may be removed
37 in a future version of Notmuch.
39 Add some controls for lazy display of message bodies (See "Dealing
40 with large messages and threads" in the notmuch-emacs documentation).
42 Allow the user to select (with '%') a different duplicate message file
45 Use `message-dont-reply-to-names` in `notmuch-message-mode`.
47 Support custom header-line format for notmuch-show mode.
49 Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
50 =========================
55 Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
56 allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
57 appropropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
59 Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
60 bracketed sub-expressions.
62 Command Line Interface
63 ----------------------
65 Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
66 input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
67 calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
69 Python (CFFI) Bindings
70 ----------------------
72 Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
73 matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
79 Reorganize documention for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
85 Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
86 "notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
92 Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
94 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
95 -----------------------------
97 The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
98 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
99 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
100 for more information.
102 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
103 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
106 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
107 =========================
112 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
114 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
116 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
117 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
119 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
121 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
126 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
129 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
131 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
132 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
137 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
139 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
142 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
143 third party completion frameworks.
145 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
147 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
149 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
150 signed and/or encrypted messages.
152 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
155 Make header line in show buffers optional.
157 Add customizable names for search buffers.
162 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
164 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
165 installed version of notmuch.
167 Ignore more configure options.
172 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
175 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
180 Add `matched` property to message objects.
182 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
183 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
189 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
191 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
192 ===========================
197 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
198 xapian/ subdirectory.
200 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
201 --------------------------
203 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
204 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
206 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
207 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
209 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
212 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
213 ===========================
218 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
219 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
220 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
222 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
223 --------------------------
225 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
226 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
228 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
229 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
230 and database location options as the library does.
232 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
234 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
235 ===========================
240 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
241 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
242 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
243 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
244 status returns for the same 3 functions.
246 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
247 =========================
252 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
253 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
254 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
255 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
256 s-expression query support.
261 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
266 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
268 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
270 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
272 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
274 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
275 ===========================
280 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
282 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
283 ===========================
288 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
289 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
292 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
293 =========================
298 Correct documentation about transactions.
300 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
301 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
303 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
308 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
314 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
315 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
316 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
318 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
320 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
322 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
324 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
326 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
328 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
331 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
336 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
337 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
338 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
339 split, following an old library API change.
344 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
349 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
351 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
353 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
354 ===========================
359 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
362 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
365 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
366 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
371 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
373 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
374 ===========================
379 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
385 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
390 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
395 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
400 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
401 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
403 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
404 ===========================
409 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
410 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
411 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
413 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
414 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
415 database in a pre-new hook.
417 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
418 default worked only in "notmuch config".
423 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
424 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
426 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
427 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
428 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
430 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
431 =========================
436 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
437 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
438 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
439 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
440 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
441 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
442 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
443 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
444 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
445 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
446 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
451 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
452 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
454 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
455 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
456 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
457 - `notmuch_config_get`
459 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
460 now exposed (and generalized).
462 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
463 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
464 session has been fixed.
466 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
467 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
472 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
473 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
475 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
476 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
481 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
482 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
483 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
484 when prompting for senders.
486 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
487 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
490 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
492 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
494 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
495 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
496 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
497 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
498 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
499 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
500 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
502 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
503 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
505 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
506 you should change it to:
507 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
509 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
510 ===========================
515 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
520 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
522 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
523 ===========================
528 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
533 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
538 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
540 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
541 ===========================
546 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
547 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
549 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
550 ===========================
555 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
560 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
561 with a C++ header for some compilers.
563 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
565 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
566 =========================
571 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
572 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
573 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
575 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
577 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
579 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
581 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
584 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
586 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
587 search, show and tree mode)
589 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
592 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
595 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
596 always be newest first.
601 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
602 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
603 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
609 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
610 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
611 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
612 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
614 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
615 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
616 non-status providing versions.
618 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
619 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
621 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
622 promised in the documentation.
627 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
628 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
629 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
634 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
635 development version).
640 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
645 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
647 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
648 =========================
653 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
654 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
655 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
658 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
664 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
665 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
666 notmuch-properties(7)).
671 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
672 has protected headers (see
673 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
674 notmuch-properties(7)).
679 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
681 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
682 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
688 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
691 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
692 ===========================
697 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
699 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
704 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
706 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
707 ===========================
712 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
713 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
715 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
716 ===========================
721 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
723 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
724 =========================
729 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
730 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
733 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
734 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
735 the set of headers to be indexed.
737 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
740 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
741 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
742 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
745 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
746 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
747 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
749 Command Line Interface
750 ----------------------
752 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
755 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
757 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
758 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
759 more details about what is included there. This status includes
760 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
765 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
766 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
768 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
770 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
772 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
774 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
776 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
779 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
781 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
782 and may be removed in a future release.
784 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
790 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
792 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
793 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
798 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
799 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
800 cryptography support.
805 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
806 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
807 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
809 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
810 ===========================
812 Command line interface
813 ----------------------
815 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
816 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
818 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
819 ===========================
824 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
825 by message properties.
830 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
832 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
833 ===========================
838 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
843 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
844 now needed to build this documentation.
846 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
847 ===========================
852 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
853 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
855 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
856 =========================
863 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
864 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
865 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
866 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
867 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
870 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
872 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
873 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
874 correct encoding for such messages.
876 Command Line Interface
877 ----------------------
879 Support relative database paths
881 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
882 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
883 to $HOME of the invoking user.
888 Improve stderr handling
890 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
891 needed on e.g. macOS.
893 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
895 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
900 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
901 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
907 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
908 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
914 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
915 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
918 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
919 =========================
924 Add support for thread:{} queries
926 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
927 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
928 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
930 Command Line Interface
931 ----------------------
933 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
935 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
937 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
939 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
940 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
941 does not have to be available during message receipt.
946 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
952 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
953 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
955 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
956 ===========================
961 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
963 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
964 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
965 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
967 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
969 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
970 related abort in `notmuch show`.
972 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
973 ===========================
978 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
979 better late than never.
982 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
983 =========================
985 Command Line Interface
986 ----------------------
988 Support for re-indexing existing messages
990 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
991 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
992 change the way specific messages are indexed.
994 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
995 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
996 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
998 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
1000 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
1002 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
1004 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
1005 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
1006 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
1007 the setting of `new.tags`.
1009 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
1011 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
1013 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
1015 This inserts into the top level folder.
1017 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
1019 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
1021 New option --output=address for notmuch address
1023 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
1025 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
1027 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
1028 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
1029 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
1031 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
1036 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
1038 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
1039 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
1040 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
1041 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
1042 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
1043 config set index.decrypt true".
1045 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
1046 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
1047 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
1048 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
1049 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
1050 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
1051 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
1052 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
1054 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
1055 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
1056 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
1057 this feature without considering the security of your index.
1062 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
1064 Use make-process when available
1066 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
1067 notmuch command without using temporary files.
1072 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
1074 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
1075 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
1076 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
1077 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
1079 New functions to count files
1081 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
1082 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
1084 New function to remove properties
1086 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
1087 drop all properties with a common pattern:
1088 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1090 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1092 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1093 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1094 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1096 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1098 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1099 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1100 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1101 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1102 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1109 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1110 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1111 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1117 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1119 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1120 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1122 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1124 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1126 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1128 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1133 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1134 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1136 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1137 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1138 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1139 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1140 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1141 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1146 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1148 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1149 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1150 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1151 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1153 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1154 ===========================
1159 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1160 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1163 Command Line Interface
1164 ----------------------
1166 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1167 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1170 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1171 ===========================
1173 Command Line Interface
1174 ----------------------
1176 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1177 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1182 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1185 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1186 ===========================
1191 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1194 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1195 =========================
1200 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1202 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1204 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1206 Command Line Interface
1207 ----------------------
1209 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1211 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1216 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1218 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1219 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1222 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1227 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1229 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1230 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1232 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1234 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1235 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1238 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1240 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1242 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1244 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1245 ===========================
1247 Command Line Interface
1248 ----------------------
1250 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1255 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1257 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1258 ===========================
1263 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1265 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1266 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1269 Command Line Interface
1270 ----------------------
1272 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1274 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1276 Fix bug in dump header
1278 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1279 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1280 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1285 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1287 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1288 =========================
1293 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1295 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1298 Command Line Interface
1299 ----------------------
1301 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1303 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1304 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1305 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1307 New default output format to 3
1309 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1310 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1311 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1312 default format changes.
1317 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1319 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1320 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1321 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1322 or tree view to resume.
1324 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1325 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1326 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1329 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1330 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1334 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1335 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1336 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1337 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1338 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1342 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1343 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1344 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1345 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1346 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1347 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1351 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1352 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1354 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1356 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1357 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1358 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1359 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1360 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1361 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1362 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1363 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1366 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1368 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1369 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1370 only tagged the current thread.)
1372 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1374 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1375 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1376 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1378 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1380 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1381 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1382 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1383 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1384 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1385 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1386 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1388 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1390 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1391 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1392 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1397 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1399 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1402 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1404 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1407 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1408 ===========================
1413 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1415 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1416 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1417 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1420 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1421 ===========================
1423 Command Line Interface
1424 ----------------------
1426 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1431 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1433 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1434 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1435 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1437 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1438 ===========================
1443 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1444 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1446 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1447 ===========================
1449 Command Line Interface
1450 ----------------------
1452 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1454 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1455 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1456 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1461 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1463 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1464 ===========================
1466 Command Line Interface
1467 ----------------------
1469 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1474 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1476 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1477 ===========================
1482 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1484 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1485 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1486 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1488 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1490 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1492 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1493 ===========================
1498 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1500 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1505 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1507 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1508 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1509 the original colours.
1511 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1512 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1514 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1516 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1517 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1518 bug, and hence the test.
1520 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1521 =========================
1523 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1524 ---------------------
1526 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1528 Support for single argument date: queries
1530 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1532 Support for blocking opens
1534 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1535 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1537 Support for named queries
1539 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1540 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1541 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1546 Message property API
1548 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1549 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1550 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1551 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1553 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1555 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1560 Support for compile time options
1562 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1563 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1566 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1568 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1569 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1570 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1571 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1572 scripts to ignore it.
1577 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1579 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1580 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1581 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1583 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1584 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1585 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1586 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1587 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1588 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1589 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1591 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1592 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1595 Make internal address completion customizable
1597 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1598 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1599 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1600 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1603 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1605 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1606 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1607 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1608 completion for the current buffer.
1610 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1611 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1612 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1616 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1617 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1618 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1619 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1620 will be added instead.
1622 Face customization is easier
1624 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1625 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1626 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1627 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1629 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1634 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1639 Go bindings moved to contrib
1641 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1643 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1645 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1646 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1648 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1650 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1651 ===========================
1658 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1659 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1661 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1663 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1665 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1666 ===========================
1671 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1673 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1678 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1683 Use `env` to locate perl.
1688 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1690 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1692 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1694 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1696 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1697 =========================
1704 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1705 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1707 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1709 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1710 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1711 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1716 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1717 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1718 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1720 Command Line Interface
1721 ----------------------
1723 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1725 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1730 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1735 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1737 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1738 parts are now included in replies.
1740 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1741 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1742 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1743 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1745 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1747 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1749 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1751 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1752 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1753 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1754 forwards only the current message.
1756 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1758 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1759 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1760 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1761 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1762 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1763 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1764 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1765 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1768 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1769 longer generate empty buffers
1771 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1772 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1773 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1774 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1775 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1777 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1779 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1782 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1784 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1787 Address completion improvements
1789 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1790 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1791 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1792 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1793 interactive address completion.
1795 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1797 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1798 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1799 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1804 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1805 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1806 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1812 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1813 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1814 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1815 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1816 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1817 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1819 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1820 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1821 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1822 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1823 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1824 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1826 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1827 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1829 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1830 =========================
1835 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1838 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1840 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1841 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1842 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1844 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1845 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1847 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1848 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1849 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1851 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1853 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1854 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1855 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1856 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1857 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1858 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1863 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1864 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1867 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1868 option to configure.
1870 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1872 Command Line Interface
1873 ----------------------
1875 Database revision tracking
1877 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1878 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1879 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1880 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1882 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1884 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1885 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1886 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1887 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1888 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1889 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1890 manual page for further information.
1895 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1897 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1898 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1900 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1902 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1903 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1904 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1906 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1908 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1910 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1911 customization as well.
1913 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1915 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1917 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1919 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1921 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1922 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1923 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1924 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1926 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1928 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1929 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1930 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1931 this variable to 10000.
1936 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1937 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1939 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1941 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1942 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1943 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1944 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1945 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1946 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1947 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1948 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1949 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1952 Database revision tracking
1954 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1955 query parser and the new function
1956 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1958 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1960 Deprecated functions
1962 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1963 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1964 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1965 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1970 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1972 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1973 ===========================
1978 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1980 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1981 ===========================
1986 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1988 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1989 =========================
1991 Command-Line Interface
1992 ----------------------
1994 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1996 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1997 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1998 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
2000 Path to gpg is now configurable
2002 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
2003 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
2008 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
2010 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
2015 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
2020 Support messages without Message-IDs.
2025 Undeprecate single message mboxes
2027 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
2028 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
2030 New error logging facility
2032 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
2033 output formerly printed to stderr.
2035 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
2037 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
2039 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
2041 Fix for rounding of seconds
2046 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
2048 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
2049 documentation has been removed.
2051 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
2053 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
2054 some material from the relicensed wiki.
2059 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
2060 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
2061 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
2066 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
2067 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
2068 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
2069 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
2070 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
2071 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
2074 git checkout config origin/config
2076 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
2078 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2079 =========================
2084 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
2085 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
2086 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
2087 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
2088 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
2089 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2090 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2092 Command-Line Interface
2093 ----------------------
2095 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2097 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2098 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2099 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2100 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2101 script callers should still check the return value.
2103 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2105 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2106 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2107 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2108 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2109 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2110 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2111 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2113 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2115 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2116 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2117 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2119 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2121 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2122 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2123 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2124 currently unmaintained.
2126 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2128 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2129 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2130 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2131 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2133 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2135 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2136 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2137 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2138 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2139 count of duplicate addresses.
2144 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2146 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2147 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2148 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2151 Improved handling of the unread tag
2153 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2154 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2155 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2156 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2157 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2158 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2159 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2161 Expanded default saved search settings
2163 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2164 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2166 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2168 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2169 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2170 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2172 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2174 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2175 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2176 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2177 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2178 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2179 the variable for details.
2184 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2186 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2187 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2188 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2189 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2191 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2193 Previously, library users were required to call
2194 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2195 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2196 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2197 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2198 too out of date for that API.
2200 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2202 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2203 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2204 atomic section will be aborted.
2206 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2207 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2209 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2211 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2212 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2213 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2214 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2215 messages into the same thread.
2220 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2221 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2222 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2223 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2224 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2225 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2230 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2231 from the config file. Use something like:
2235 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2236 "footer": "</body></html>",
2245 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2250 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2251 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2252 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2254 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2255 ===========================
2260 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2262 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2264 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2266 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2267 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2269 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2271 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2274 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2275 ===========================
2277 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2282 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2284 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2286 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2288 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2290 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2296 Use --quick when starting emacs
2298 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2300 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2302 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2304 Command-Line Interface
2305 ----------------------
2307 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2308 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2313 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2315 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2316 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2318 Fix for phrase indexing
2320 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2321 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2322 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2327 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2329 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2330 unintentionally removed.
2332 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2333 =========================
2338 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2339 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2340 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2341 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2342 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2343 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2344 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2345 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2346 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2352 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2354 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2355 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2356 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2357 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2358 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2359 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2360 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2361 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2363 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2365 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2366 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2367 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2368 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2371 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2373 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2374 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2375 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2376 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2377 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2378 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2379 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2384 Notmuch database upgrade
2386 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2387 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2388 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2389 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2390 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2391 released version of Notmuch before now.
2393 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2395 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2396 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2397 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2398 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2400 Message header parsing changes
2402 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2403 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2404 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2405 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2406 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2407 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2409 Command-Line Interface
2410 ----------------------
2412 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2414 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2416 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2418 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2420 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2422 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2423 user does not want it.
2425 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2427 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2428 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2429 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2430 support formatted output.
2432 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2434 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2435 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2436 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2444 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2445 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2446 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2447 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2448 `~/.emacs` with these.
2450 Changed format for saved searches
2452 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2453 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2454 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2455 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2458 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2459 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2460 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2461 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2463 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2464 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2465 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2467 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2468 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2469 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2470 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2471 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2473 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2475 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2476 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2477 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2479 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2481 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2482 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2483 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2484 message had been unread).
2486 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2487 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2488 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2489 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2491 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2492 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2493 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2495 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2496 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2497 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2498 to tags already present.
2502 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2503 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2504 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2505 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2506 these differ from each other.
2507 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2509 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2511 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2512 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2513 for these Emacs versions.
2515 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2517 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2518 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2520 Bug fixes for sender identities
2522 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2523 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2524 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2526 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2528 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2529 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2530 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2531 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2533 Reply pushes mark before signature
2535 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2536 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2537 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2539 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2541 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2542 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2548 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2549 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2551 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2552 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2553 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2554 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2556 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2557 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2558 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2559 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2560 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2562 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2564 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2565 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2567 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2568 =========================
2570 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2571 ---------------------------------------
2573 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2574 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2575 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2576 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2577 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2578 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2579 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2583 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2584 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2586 Command-Line Interface
2587 ----------------------
2589 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2591 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2592 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2593 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2594 print for each message.
2596 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2597 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2598 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2599 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2601 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2603 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2604 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2605 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2607 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2609 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2610 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2611 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2612 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2614 `notmuch compact` command
2616 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2617 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2618 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2619 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2620 move the compacted database into place.
2625 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2627 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2628 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2629 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2630 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2631 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2632 and multiple threads.
2634 Using `notmuch-tree`
2636 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2638 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2639 search, show and tree mode itself)
2641 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2644 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2645 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2647 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2649 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2650 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2651 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2652 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2653 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2654 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2655 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2657 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2659 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2660 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2661 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2662 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2663 thread when the search was performed.
2665 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2667 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2668 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2669 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2671 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2673 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2674 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2677 Built-in help improvements
2679 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2680 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2681 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2683 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2685 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2686 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2687 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2689 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2691 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2692 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2694 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2696 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2697 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2698 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2699 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2701 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2703 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2704 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2705 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2706 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2708 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2710 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2711 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2712 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2714 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2716 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2717 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2718 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2720 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2722 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2723 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2724 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2725 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2726 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2728 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2730 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2731 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2732 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2733 the body part of the message.
2738 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2739 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2740 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2742 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2743 =========================
2745 Command-Line Interface
2746 ----------------------
2748 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2750 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2751 folder and notmuch index.
2753 `notmuch count --batch` option
2755 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2756 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2758 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2760 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2761 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2762 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2765 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2767 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2768 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2769 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2770 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2771 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2774 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2776 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2777 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2779 Top level option to specify configuration file
2781 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2782 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2784 Bash command-line completion
2786 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2787 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2788 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2789 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2790 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2791 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2792 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2793 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2794 bash-completion package.
2796 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2801 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2803 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2804 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2805 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2806 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2807 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2808 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2809 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2810 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2812 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2814 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2815 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2816 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2818 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2820 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2821 previous thread in the search results.
2823 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2825 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2826 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2828 Faster search and show
2830 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2831 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2832 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2833 threads should show faster.
2837 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2838 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2839 in question was now removed from this release.
2844 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2845 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2850 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2852 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2853 ===========================
2858 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2860 Internal test framework changes
2861 -------------------------------
2863 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2864 being unimplemented.
2866 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2867 ===========================
2869 Internal test framework changes
2870 -------------------------------
2872 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2873 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2875 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2876 =========================
2881 Date range search support
2883 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2884 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2885 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2886 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2887 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2890 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2892 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2893 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2894 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2895 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2896 but may be removed in a future release.
2898 Command-Line Interface
2899 ----------------------
2901 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2903 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2904 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2906 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2908 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2909 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2910 officially deprecated.
2912 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2914 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2915 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2916 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2918 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2920 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2921 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2924 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2925 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2926 dump/restore format.
2928 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2930 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2931 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2932 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2934 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2936 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2937 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2938 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2940 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2942 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2943 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2944 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2945 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2950 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2952 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2953 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2954 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2955 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2957 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2959 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2960 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2961 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2962 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2963 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2964 the behavior of this, see
2965 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2966 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2968 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2969 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2970 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2972 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2974 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2975 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2978 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2980 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2981 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2982 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2983 simply displayed in place of the message.
2985 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2987 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2988 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2990 Improved text/calendar content handling
2992 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2993 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2994 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2995 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2997 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2999 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
3000 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
3001 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
3002 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
3004 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
3006 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
3007 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
3008 for HTML email containing images.
3010 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
3012 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
3014 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
3016 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
3019 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
3021 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
3022 the point where it was.
3024 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
3026 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
3027 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
3028 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
3029 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
3030 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
3032 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
3034 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
3035 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
3036 thread instead of the message id.
3038 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
3039 -----------------------------
3041 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
3042 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
3043 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
3044 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
3045 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
3046 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
3047 further details and installation.
3052 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
3054 Internal test framework changes
3055 -------------------------------
3057 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
3059 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
3060 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
3061 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
3062 can result in buggy behavior.
3064 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
3065 =========================
3070 Maildir tag synchronization
3072 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
3073 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
3074 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
3075 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
3076 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
3077 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
3080 Command-Line Interface
3081 ----------------------
3083 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
3084 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
3085 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
3086 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
3087 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3093 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3095 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3097 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3098 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3099 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3101 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3103 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3104 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3105 span multiple lines.
3107 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3109 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3110 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3111 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3112 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3113 inside the result or message.
3115 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3117 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3118 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3120 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3121 user-specified formatting
3123 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3124 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3125 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3126 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3127 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3129 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3130 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3132 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3133 ===========================
3138 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3139 compilation error for this contrib package.
3141 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3142 ===========================
3147 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3149 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3150 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3151 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3152 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3154 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3155 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3158 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3159 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3160 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3161 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3164 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3166 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3169 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3170 =========================
3172 Command-Line Interface
3173 ----------------------
3177 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3178 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3179 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3180 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3182 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3183 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3184 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3185 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3189 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3190 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3192 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3193 tag in your query, for example:
3195 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3197 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3198 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3200 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3201 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3203 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3205 Raw show format changes
3207 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3208 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3209 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3210 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3211 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3212 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3213 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3214 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3216 Listing configuration items
3218 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3224 Changes to tagging interface
3226 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3227 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3228 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3229 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3230 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3231 for more information.
3233 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3234 may need to update in custom configurations.
3236 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3238 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3239 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3240 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3241 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3244 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3245 -----------------------------
3247 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3248 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3249 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3250 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3251 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3252 contrib/ from now on.
3257 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3258 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3260 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3261 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3263 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3264 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3265 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3267 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3268 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3270 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3271 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3272 returning the new database object or directory object.
3279 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3280 compatible with go 1.
3282 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3283 =========================
3285 Command-Line Interface
3286 ----------------------
3290 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3291 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3292 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3293 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3295 Mail store folder/file ignore
3297 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3298 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3299 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3301 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3302 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3304 Unified help and manual pages
3306 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3307 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3310 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3312 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3313 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3321 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3322 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3323 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3324 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3326 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3328 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3329 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3331 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3334 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3335 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3336 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3338 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3340 should be changed to:
3342 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3344 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3346 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3347 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3349 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3351 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3352 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3353 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3354 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3355 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3356 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3360 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3361 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3362 of Mailing List Archives.
3364 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3366 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3367 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3370 Show view archiving key binding changes
3372 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3373 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3374 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3375 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3376 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3379 Support text/calendar MIME type
3381 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3384 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3386 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3387 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3388 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3389 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3391 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3393 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3394 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3395 messages blue by default in the search view.
3399 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3400 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3407 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3410 Python bindings changes
3411 -----------------------
3413 Python 3.2 compatibility
3415 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3417 Added missing unicode conversions
3419 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3420 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3421 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3426 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3428 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3429 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3430 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3431 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3432 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3434 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3435 ===========================
3440 Fix error handling in python bindings
3442 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3443 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3444 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3445 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3447 Quote MML tags in replies
3449 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3450 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3451 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3452 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3453 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3454 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3455 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3456 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3458 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3459 =========================
3461 Command-Line Interface
3462 ----------------------
3466 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3467 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3468 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3469 importing new messages into the database.
3471 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3473 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3474 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3475 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3480 Automatic tag query optimization
3482 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3483 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3484 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3486 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3488 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3489 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3490 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3495 Reduction of memory leaks
3497 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3498 and fixed in this release.
3505 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3506 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3507 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3510 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3512 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3513 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3514 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3517 Improvements in saved search management
3519 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3520 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3521 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3523 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3525 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3526 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3527 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3529 New face for crypto parts headers
3531 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3532 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3533 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3536 Use space as default thousands separator
3538 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3539 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3540 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3542 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3543 buttonized id: links
3545 New function notmuch-show-advance
3547 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3548 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3549 be bound to SPC with:
3551 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3553 Various performance improvements
3558 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3559 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3562 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3563 ===========================
3568 Fix crash in python bindings
3570 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3571 for some, but not all users.
3573 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3574 ===========================
3579 Fix `--help` argument
3581 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3582 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3583 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3585 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3586 =========================
3588 New build and testing features
3589 ------------------------------
3591 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3592 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3593 prerequisites is improved.
3595 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3597 New command-line features
3598 -------------------------
3600 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3602 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3603 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3606 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3608 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3609 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3610 favour of using stdout.
3612 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3614 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3615 limit the number of results shown.
3617 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3619 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3620 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3623 New emacs UI features
3624 ---------------------
3626 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3628 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3629 starting with "tag:".
3631 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3633 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3634 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3636 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3638 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3640 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3642 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3643 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3648 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3650 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3652 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3653 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3654 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3655 requires a database rebuild:
3657 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3658 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3660 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3662 New collection of add-on tools
3663 ------------------------------
3665 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3666 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3667 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3670 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3672 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3673 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3674 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3676 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3677 ========================
3679 New, general features
3680 ---------------------
3682 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3684 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3685 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3686 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3687 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3688 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3695 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3696 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3698 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3702 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3703 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3704 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3707 Python bindings changes
3708 -----------------------
3710 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3712 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3713 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3714 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3715 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3716 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3717 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3719 Ruby bindings changes
3720 ---------------------
3722 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3723 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3724 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3725 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3730 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3732 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3733 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3735 Reply formatting cleanup
3736 ------------------------
3738 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3739 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3741 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3742 ========================
3744 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3746 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3747 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3748 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3749 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3752 Improved Build system portability
3754 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3755 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3756 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3758 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3760 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3762 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3764 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3765 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3766 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3768 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3769 ========================
3771 Vim interface improvements
3772 --------------------------
3774 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3776 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3777 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3778 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3779 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3780 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3782 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3784 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3785 * fix compose temp file name
3787 Python Bindings changes
3788 -----------------------
3790 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3792 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3793 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3795 Build-System improvements
3796 -------------------------
3798 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3800 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3803 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3804 ==========================
3809 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3811 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3812 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3814 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3815 =======================
3817 New, general features
3818 ---------------------
3820 Folder-based searching
3822 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3823 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3824 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3828 For example, one might use things such as:
3834 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3835 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3837 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3838 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3839 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3840 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3842 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3843 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3844 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3847 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3848 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3850 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3852 Support for PGP/MIME
3854 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3855 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3856 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3858 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3860 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3861 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3863 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3864 notmuch will receive these tags.
3866 New command-line features
3867 -------------------------
3869 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3871 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3872 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3874 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3876 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3877 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3878 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3880 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3882 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3883 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3884 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3885 which parts a signature part applies).
3887 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3889 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3890 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3891 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3892 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3893 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3896 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3898 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3899 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3900 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3901 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3902 by translating it internally to the new call.
3904 Performance improvements
3905 ------------------------
3907 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3909 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3910 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3911 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3913 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3914 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3916 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3918 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3919 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3920 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3922 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3923 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3924 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3925 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3927 Faster initial indexing
3929 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3930 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3931 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3933 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3935 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3936 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3937 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3938 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3940 New emacs-interface features
3941 ----------------------------
3943 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3945 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3946 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3947 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3948 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3949 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3950 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3952 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3954 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3955 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3956 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3957 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3959 User-selectable From address
3961 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3962 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3963 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3964 will prompt for the from address to use.
3966 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3967 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3968 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3970 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3971 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3972 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3975 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3977 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3978 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3980 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3982 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3984 ----- Original Message -----
3986 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3987 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3988 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3989 citations work much like conventional citations.
3991 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3993 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3994 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3995 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3996 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3997 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3999 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
4000 Notmuch After Tag Hook
4002 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
4004 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
4005 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
4006 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
4008 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
4010 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
4011 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
4012 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
4013 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
4014 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
4016 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
4018 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
4021 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
4023 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
4025 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
4027 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
4030 Vim interface improvements
4031 --------------------------
4033 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
4035 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
4036 * Implementing archive in show view
4037 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
4038 * Add delete commands
4041 Bindings improvements
4042 ---------------------
4044 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
4046 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
4047 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
4049 Python bindings have been updated and extended
4051 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
4055 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
4056 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
4057 `list(Messages)` works now
4058 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
4060 These allow, for example:
4062 if msg1 == msg2: ...
4064 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
4066 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
4072 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
4074 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
4077 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
4079 New build-system features
4080 -------------------------
4082 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
4084 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
4085 the configure script from some other directory:
4092 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4094 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4095 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4096 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4097 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4098 manual invocation of configure.
4100 New test-suite feature
4101 ----------------------
4103 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4105 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4106 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4107 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4108 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4109 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4112 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4114 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4115 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4116 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4117 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4118 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4119 are updated to take advantage of this.
4121 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4123 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4124 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4125 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4126 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4132 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4134 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4135 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4136 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4138 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4140 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4142 to:user@elsewhere.com
4144 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4146 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4148 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4150 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4151 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4152 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4155 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4156 from the Received headers in some cases
4158 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4159 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4161 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4163 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4165 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4167 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4168 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4169 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4171 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4172 -------------------------
4174 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4176 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4177 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4178 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4180 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4182 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4183 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4184 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4187 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4189 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4190 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4191 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4192 fixed to avoid this bug.
4194 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4196 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4197 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4199 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4200 ========================
4202 New, general features
4203 ---------------------
4205 Maildir-flag synchronization
4207 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4208 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4217 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4219 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4220 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4221 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4222 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4224 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4225 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4226 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4227 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4230 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4232 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4233 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4234 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4236 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4237 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4239 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4240 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4242 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4243 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4244 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4246 New library features
4247 --------------------
4249 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4251 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4252 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4253 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4254 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4256 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4257 message with the new function:
4259 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4261 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4262 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4263 over all available filenames for a given message.
4265 New command-line features
4266 -------------------------
4268 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4270 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4271 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4272 access to the mail store itself.
4274 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4275 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4276 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4277 name of a script containing:
4279 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4281 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4282 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4288 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4290 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4292 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4294 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4295 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4296 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4297 now produces nothing).
4299 Emacs interface improvements
4300 ----------------------------
4302 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4304 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4306 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4308 Display current thread subject in a header line
4310 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4312 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4314 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4315 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4316 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4317 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4318 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4319 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4320 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4322 Vim interface improvements
4323 --------------------------
4325 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4327 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4328 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4334 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4336 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4337 ========================
4339 New command-line features
4340 -------------------------
4342 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4344 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4345 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4346 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4348 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4349 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4350 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4351 scripts. For example:
4353 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4354 <operations-on> "$file"
4357 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4359 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4360 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4361 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4362 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4363 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4364 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4366 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4368 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4369 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4370 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4371 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4373 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4375 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4376 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4377 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4378 default rather than Bcc.
4380 New library features
4381 --------------------
4383 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4385 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4386 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4391 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4393 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4394 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4395 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4396 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4397 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4398 notmuch customize interface.
4400 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4402 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4403 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4404 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4405 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4407 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4409 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4410 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4411 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4412 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4414 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4416 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4417 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4418 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4419 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4420 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4421 notmuch customize interface.
4423 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4425 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4426 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4427 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4428 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4429 notmuch customize interface.
4431 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4433 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4434 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4435 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4436 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4439 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4441 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4442 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4443 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4446 New build-system features
4447 -------------------------
4449 Various portability fixes have been applied
4451 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4452 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4453 more portable than ever before.
4455 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4457 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4458 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4459 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4461 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4462 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4463 automatically run ldconfig.
4465 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4466 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4467 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4469 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4470 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4471 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4472 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4474 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4476 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4477 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4478 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4479 used in the resulting Makefile.
4481 New test-suite features
4482 -----------------------
4484 New modularization of test suite
4486 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4487 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4488 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4489 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4490 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4491 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4492 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4493 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4495 New testing of emacs interface
4497 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4498 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4499 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4500 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4501 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4502 database via the FCC setting.
4507 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4509 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4510 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4511 persistent error of the form:
4513 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4515 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4516 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4518 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4520 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4521 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4522 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4524 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4526 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4527 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4528 parsing the notmuch results).
4530 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4532 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4535 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4536 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4537 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4542 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4544 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4545 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4546 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4547 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4548 the emacs interface.
4550 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4552 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4553 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4554 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4556 Python-binding fixes
4557 --------------------
4559 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4561 Debian-specific fixes
4562 ---------------------
4564 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4566 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4567 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4568 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4571 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4572 ==========================
4577 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4579 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4580 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4581 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4582 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4584 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4586 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4587 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4588 want notmuch to crash.
4593 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4595 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4596 directory does not exist
4601 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4603 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4604 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4606 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4607 ========================
4609 New command-line features
4610 -------------------------
4612 User-configurable tags for new messages
4614 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4615 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4616 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4617 to specify this value.
4619 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4621 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4622 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4623 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4625 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4627 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4628 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4630 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4632 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4633 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4634 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4635 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4636 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4639 Indication of author names that match a search
4641 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4642 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4643 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4644 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4645 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4646 messages in the thread are listed first.
4648 New: Python bindings
4649 --------------------
4651 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4652 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4653 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4654 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4656 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4657 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4658 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4661 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4662 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4663 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4665 Emacs interface improvements
4666 ----------------------------
4668 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4670 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4671 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4672 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4673 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4674 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4675 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4676 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4677 but without any of the disadvantages).
4679 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4680 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4681 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4684 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4685 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4686 instead running something like:
4688 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4690 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4691 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4692 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4695 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4697 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4698 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4699 tweaked by the user.
4701 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4702 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4703 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4706 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4707 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4708 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4711 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4713 This support currently relies on an external program,
4714 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4715 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4716 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4717 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4718 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4721 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4722 notmuch) is available via:
4724 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4726 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4727 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4728 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4730 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4732 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4733 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4734 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4735 making this automatic in a future release.
4737 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4739 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4740 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4741 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4742 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4743 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4744 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4747 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4749 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4750 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4751 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4753 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4755 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4756 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4757 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4759 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4760 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4761 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4762 other representation.
4764 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4765 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4768 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4770 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4771 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4772 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4774 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4775 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4776 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4778 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4780 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4781 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4782 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4783 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4784 to display the search result.
4786 More flexible handling of header visibility
4788 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4789 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4790 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4791 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4792 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4793 with the 'h' keybinding.
4795 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4796 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4797 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4799 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4801 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4803 Customizable formatting of search results
4805 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4806 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4807 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4809 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4811 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4813 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4818 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4820 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4821 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4822 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4823 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4829 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4831 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4832 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4834 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4836 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4837 accept are now all accepted.
4842 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4844 Better display of output from failed tests
4846 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4847 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4849 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4850 ========================
4852 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4853 detailed release notes this time!
4855 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4856 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4858 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4859 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4860 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4861 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4868 Better guessing of From: header
4870 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4871 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4872 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4873 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4874 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4877 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4879 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4880 guaranteed to match all messages.
4882 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4884 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4885 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4886 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4887 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4888 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4891 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4894 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4895 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4896 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4897 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4902 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4904 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4905 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4906 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4907 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4909 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4911 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4913 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4914 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4915 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4917 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4919 Previously, the user might see:
4921 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4925 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4927 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4928 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4929 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4930 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4932 Emacs client features
4933 ---------------------
4935 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4937 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4938 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4939 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4940 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4941 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4943 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4946 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4947 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4948 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4949 search with the '*' binding.
4951 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4953 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4954 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4957 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4959 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4960 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4961 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4963 Build-system features
4964 ---------------------
4966 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4968 Add support to configure for many standard options
4970 We include actual support for:
4972 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4974 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4976 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4977 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4979 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4980 separate "make install-emacs"
4982 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4984 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4985 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4986 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4988 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4991 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4992 ========================
4994 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4996 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4997 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4999 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
5000 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
5001 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
5002 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
5003 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
5004 tags from messages in a thread.
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