1 Notmuch 0.35 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
9 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
11 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
12 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
14 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
16 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
21 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
24 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
26 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
27 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
32 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
34 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
37 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
38 third party completion frameworks.
40 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
42 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
44 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
45 signed and/or encrypted messages.
50 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
52 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
53 installed version of notmuch.
58 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
61 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
66 Add `matched` property to message objects.
68 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
69 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
72 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
73 ===========================
78 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
81 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
82 --------------------------
84 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
85 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
87 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
88 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
90 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
93 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
94 ===========================
99 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
100 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
101 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
103 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
104 --------------------------
106 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
107 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
109 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
110 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
111 and database location options as the library does.
113 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
115 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
116 ===========================
121 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
122 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
123 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
124 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
125 status returns for the same 3 functions.
127 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
128 =========================
133 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
134 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
135 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
136 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
137 s-expression query support.
142 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
147 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
149 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
151 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
153 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
155 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
156 ===========================
161 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
163 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
164 ===========================
169 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
170 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
173 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
174 =========================
179 Correct documentation about transactions.
181 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
182 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
184 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
189 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
195 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
196 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
197 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
199 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
201 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
203 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
205 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
207 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
209 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
212 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
217 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
218 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
219 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
220 split, following an old library API change.
225 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
230 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
232 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
234 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
235 ===========================
240 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
243 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
246 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
247 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
252 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
254 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
255 ===========================
260 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
266 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
271 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
276 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
281 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
282 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
284 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
285 ===========================
290 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
291 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
292 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
294 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
295 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
296 database in a pre-new hook.
298 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
299 default worked only in "notmuch config".
304 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
305 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
307 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
308 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
309 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
311 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
312 =========================
317 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
318 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
319 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
320 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
321 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
322 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
323 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
324 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
325 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
326 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
327 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
332 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
333 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
335 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
336 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
337 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
338 - `notmuch_config_get`
340 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
341 now exposed (and generalized).
343 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
344 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
345 session has been fixed.
347 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
348 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
353 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
354 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
356 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
357 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
362 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
363 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
364 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
365 when prompting for senders.
367 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
368 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
371 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
373 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
375 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
376 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
377 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
378 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
379 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
380 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
381 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
383 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
384 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
386 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
387 you should change it to:
388 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
390 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
391 ===========================
396 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
401 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
403 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
404 ===========================
409 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
414 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
419 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
421 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
422 ===========================
427 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
428 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
430 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
431 ===========================
436 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
441 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
442 with a C++ header for some compilers.
444 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
446 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
447 =========================
452 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
453 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
454 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
456 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
458 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
460 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
462 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
465 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
467 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
468 search, show and tree mode)
470 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
473 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
476 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
477 always be newest first.
482 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
483 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
484 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
490 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
491 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
492 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
493 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
495 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
496 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
497 non-status providing versions.
499 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
500 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
502 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
503 promised in the documentation.
508 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
509 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
510 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
515 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
516 development version).
521 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
526 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
528 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
529 =========================
534 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
535 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
536 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
539 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
545 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
546 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
547 notmuch-properties(7)).
552 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
553 has protected headers (see
554 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
555 notmuch-properties(7)).
560 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
562 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
563 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
569 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
572 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
573 ===========================
578 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
580 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
585 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
587 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
588 ===========================
593 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
594 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
596 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
597 ===========================
602 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
604 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
605 =========================
610 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
611 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
614 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
615 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
616 the set of headers to be indexed.
618 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
621 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
622 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
623 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
626 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
627 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
628 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
630 Command Line Interface
631 ----------------------
633 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
636 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
638 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
639 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
640 more details about what is included there. This status includes
641 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
646 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
647 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
649 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
651 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
653 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
655 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
657 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
660 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
662 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
663 and may be removed in a future release.
665 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
671 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
673 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
674 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
679 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
680 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
681 cryptography support.
686 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
687 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
688 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
690 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
691 ===========================
693 Command line interface
694 ----------------------
696 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
697 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
699 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
700 ===========================
705 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
706 by message properties.
711 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
713 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
714 ===========================
719 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
724 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
725 now needed to build this documentation.
727 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
728 ===========================
733 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
734 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
736 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
737 =========================
744 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
745 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
746 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
747 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
748 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
751 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
753 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
754 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
755 correct encoding for such messages.
757 Command Line Interface
758 ----------------------
760 Support relative database paths
762 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
763 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
764 to $HOME of the invoking user.
769 Improve stderr handling
771 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
772 needed on e.g. macOS.
774 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
776 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
781 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
782 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
788 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
789 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
795 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
796 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
799 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
800 =========================
805 Add support for thread:{} queries
807 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
808 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
809 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
811 Command Line Interface
812 ----------------------
814 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
816 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
818 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
820 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
821 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
822 does not have to be available during message receipt.
827 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
833 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
834 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
836 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
837 ===========================
842 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
844 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
845 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
846 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
848 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
850 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
851 related abort in `notmuch show`.
853 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
854 ===========================
859 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
860 better late than never.
863 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
864 =========================
866 Command Line Interface
867 ----------------------
869 Support for re-indexing existing messages
871 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
872 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
873 change the way specific messages are indexed.
875 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
876 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
877 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
879 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
881 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
883 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
885 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
886 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
887 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
888 the setting of `new.tags`.
890 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
892 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
894 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
896 This inserts into the top level folder.
898 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
900 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
902 New option --output=address for notmuch address
904 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
906 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
908 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
909 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
910 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
912 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
917 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
919 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
920 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
921 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
922 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
923 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
924 config set index.decrypt true".
926 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
927 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
928 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
929 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
930 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
931 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
932 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
933 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
935 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
936 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
937 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
938 this feature without considering the security of your index.
943 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
945 Use make-process when available
947 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
948 notmuch command without using temporary files.
953 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
955 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
956 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
957 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
958 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
960 New functions to count files
962 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
963 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
965 New function to remove properties
967 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
968 drop all properties with a common pattern:
969 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
971 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
973 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
974 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
975 possibility of NULL was not documented.
977 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
979 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
980 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
981 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
982 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
983 operator may decide to change from message to message.
990 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
991 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
992 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
998 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1000 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1001 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1003 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1005 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1007 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1009 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1014 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1015 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1017 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1018 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1019 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1020 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1021 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1022 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1027 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1029 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1030 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1031 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1032 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1034 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1035 ===========================
1040 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1041 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1044 Command Line Interface
1045 ----------------------
1047 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1048 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1051 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1052 ===========================
1054 Command Line Interface
1055 ----------------------
1057 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1058 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1063 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1066 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1067 ===========================
1072 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1075 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1076 =========================
1081 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1083 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1085 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1087 Command Line Interface
1088 ----------------------
1090 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1092 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1097 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1099 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1100 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1103 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1108 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1110 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1111 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1113 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1115 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1116 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1119 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1121 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1123 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1125 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1126 ===========================
1128 Command Line Interface
1129 ----------------------
1131 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1136 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1138 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1139 ===========================
1144 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1146 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1147 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1150 Command Line Interface
1151 ----------------------
1153 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1155 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1157 Fix bug in dump header
1159 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1160 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1161 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1166 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1168 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1169 =========================
1174 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1176 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1179 Command Line Interface
1180 ----------------------
1182 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1184 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1185 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1186 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1188 New default output format to 3
1190 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1191 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1192 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1193 default format changes.
1198 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1200 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1201 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1202 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1203 or tree view to resume.
1205 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1206 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1207 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1210 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1211 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1215 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1216 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1217 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1218 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1219 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1223 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1224 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1225 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1226 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1227 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1228 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1232 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1233 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1235 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1237 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1238 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1239 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1240 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1241 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1242 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1243 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1244 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1247 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1249 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1250 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1251 only tagged the current thread.)
1253 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1255 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1256 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1257 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1259 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1261 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1262 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1263 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1264 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1265 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1266 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1267 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1269 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1271 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1272 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1273 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1278 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1280 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1283 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1285 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1288 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1289 ===========================
1294 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1296 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1297 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1298 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1301 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1302 ===========================
1304 Command Line Interface
1305 ----------------------
1307 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1312 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1314 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1315 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1316 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1318 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1319 ===========================
1324 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1325 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1327 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1328 ===========================
1330 Command Line Interface
1331 ----------------------
1333 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1335 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1336 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1337 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1342 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1344 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1345 ===========================
1347 Command Line Interface
1348 ----------------------
1350 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1355 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1357 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1358 ===========================
1363 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1365 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1366 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1367 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1369 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1371 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1373 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1374 ===========================
1379 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1381 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1386 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1388 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1389 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1390 the original colours.
1392 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1393 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1395 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1397 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1398 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1399 bug, and hence the test.
1401 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1402 =========================
1404 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1405 ---------------------
1407 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1409 Support for single argument date: queries
1411 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1413 Support for blocking opens
1415 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1416 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1418 Support for named queries
1420 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1421 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1422 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1427 Message property API
1429 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1430 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1431 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1432 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1434 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1436 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1441 Support for compile time options
1443 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1444 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1447 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1449 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1450 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1451 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1452 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1453 scripts to ignore it.
1458 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1460 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1461 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1462 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1464 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1465 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1466 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1467 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1468 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1469 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1470 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1472 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1473 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1476 Make internal address completion customizable
1478 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1479 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1480 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1481 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1484 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1486 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1487 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1488 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1489 completion for the current buffer.
1491 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1492 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1493 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1497 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1498 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1499 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1500 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1501 will be added instead.
1503 Face customization is easier
1505 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1506 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1507 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1508 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1510 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1515 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1520 Go bindings moved to contrib
1522 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1524 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1526 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1527 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1529 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1531 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1532 ===========================
1539 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1540 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1542 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1544 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1546 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1547 ===========================
1552 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1554 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1559 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1564 Use `env` to locate perl.
1569 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1571 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1573 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1575 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1577 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1578 =========================
1585 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1586 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1588 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1590 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1591 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1592 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1597 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1598 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1599 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1601 Command Line Interface
1602 ----------------------
1604 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1606 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1611 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1616 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1618 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1619 parts are now included in replies.
1621 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1622 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1623 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1624 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1626 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1628 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1630 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1632 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1633 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1634 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1635 forwards only the current message.
1637 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1639 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1640 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1641 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1642 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1643 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1644 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1645 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1646 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1649 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1650 longer generate empty buffers
1652 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1653 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1654 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1655 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1656 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1658 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1660 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1663 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1665 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1668 Address completion improvements
1670 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1671 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1672 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1673 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1674 interactive address completion.
1676 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1678 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1679 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1680 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1685 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1686 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1687 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1693 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1694 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1695 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1696 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1697 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1698 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1700 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1701 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1702 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1703 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1704 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1705 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1707 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1708 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1710 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1711 =========================
1716 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1719 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1721 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1722 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1723 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1725 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1726 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1728 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1729 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1730 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1732 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1734 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1735 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1736 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1737 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1738 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1739 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1744 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1745 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1748 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1749 option to configure.
1751 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1753 Command Line Interface
1754 ----------------------
1756 Database revision tracking
1758 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1759 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1760 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1761 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1763 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1765 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1766 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1767 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1768 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1769 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1770 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1771 manual page for further information.
1776 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1778 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1779 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1781 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1783 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1784 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1785 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1787 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1789 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1791 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1792 customization as well.
1794 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1796 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1798 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1800 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1802 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1803 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1804 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1805 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1807 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1809 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1810 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1811 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1812 this variable to 10000.
1817 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1818 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1820 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1822 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1823 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1824 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1825 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1826 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1827 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1828 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1829 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1830 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1833 Database revision tracking
1835 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1836 query parser and the new function
1837 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1839 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1841 Deprecated functions
1843 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1844 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1845 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1846 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1851 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1853 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1854 ===========================
1859 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1861 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1862 ===========================
1867 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1869 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1870 =========================
1872 Command-Line Interface
1873 ----------------------
1875 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1877 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1878 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1879 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1881 Path to gpg is now configurable
1883 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1884 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1889 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1891 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1896 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1901 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1906 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1908 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1909 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1911 New error logging facility
1913 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1914 output formerly printed to stderr.
1916 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1918 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1920 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1922 Fix for rounding of seconds
1927 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1929 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1930 documentation has been removed.
1932 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1934 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1935 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1940 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1941 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1942 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1947 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1948 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1949 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1950 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1951 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1952 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1955 git checkout config origin/config
1957 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1959 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1960 =========================
1965 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1966 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1967 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1968 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1969 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1970 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1971 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1973 Command-Line Interface
1974 ----------------------
1976 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1978 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1979 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1980 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1981 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1982 script callers should still check the return value.
1984 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1986 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1987 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1988 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1989 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1990 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1991 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1992 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1994 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1996 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1997 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1998 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2000 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2002 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2003 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2004 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2005 currently unmaintained.
2007 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2009 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2010 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2011 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2012 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2014 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2016 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2017 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2018 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2019 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2020 count of duplicate addresses.
2025 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2027 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2028 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2029 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2032 Improved handling of the unread tag
2034 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2035 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2036 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2037 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2038 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2039 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2040 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2042 Expanded default saved search settings
2044 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2045 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2047 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2049 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2050 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2051 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2053 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2055 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2056 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2057 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2058 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2059 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2060 the variable for details.
2065 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2067 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2068 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2069 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2070 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2072 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2074 Previously, library users were required to call
2075 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2076 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2077 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2078 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2079 too out of date for that API.
2081 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2083 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2084 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2085 atomic section will be aborted.
2087 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2088 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2090 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2092 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2093 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2094 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2095 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2096 messages into the same thread.
2101 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2102 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2103 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2104 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2105 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2106 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2111 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2112 from the config file. Use something like:
2116 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2117 "footer": "</body></html>",
2126 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2131 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2132 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2133 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2135 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2136 ===========================
2141 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2143 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2145 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2147 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2148 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2150 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2152 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2155 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2156 ===========================
2158 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2163 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2165 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2167 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2169 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2171 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2177 Use --quick when starting emacs
2179 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2181 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2183 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2185 Command-Line Interface
2186 ----------------------
2188 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2189 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2194 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2196 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2197 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2199 Fix for phrase indexing
2201 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2202 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2203 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2208 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2210 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2211 unintentionally removed.
2213 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2214 =========================
2219 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2220 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2221 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2222 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2223 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2224 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2225 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2226 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2227 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2233 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2235 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2236 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2237 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2238 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2239 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2240 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2241 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2242 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2244 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2246 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2247 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2248 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2249 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2252 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2254 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2255 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2256 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2257 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2258 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2259 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2260 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2265 Notmuch database upgrade
2267 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2268 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2269 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2270 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2271 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2272 released version of Notmuch before now.
2274 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2276 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2277 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2278 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2279 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2281 Message header parsing changes
2283 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2284 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2285 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2286 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2287 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2288 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2290 Command-Line Interface
2291 ----------------------
2293 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2295 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2297 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2299 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2301 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2303 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2304 user does not want it.
2306 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2308 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2309 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2310 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2311 support formatted output.
2313 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2315 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2316 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2317 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2325 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2326 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2327 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2328 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2329 `~/.emacs` with these.
2331 Changed format for saved searches
2333 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2334 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2335 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2336 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2339 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2340 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2341 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2342 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2344 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2345 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2346 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2348 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2349 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2350 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2351 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2352 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2354 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2356 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2357 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2358 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2360 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2362 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2363 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2364 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2365 message had been unread).
2367 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2368 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2369 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2370 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2372 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2373 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2374 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2376 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2377 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2378 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2379 to tags already present.
2383 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2384 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2385 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2386 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2387 these differ from each other.
2388 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2390 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2392 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2393 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2394 for these Emacs versions.
2396 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2398 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2399 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2401 Bug fixes for sender identities
2403 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2404 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2405 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2407 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2409 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2410 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2411 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2412 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2414 Reply pushes mark before signature
2416 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2417 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2418 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2420 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2422 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2423 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2429 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2430 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2432 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2433 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2434 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2435 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2437 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2438 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2439 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2440 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2441 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2443 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2445 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2446 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2448 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2449 =========================
2451 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2452 ---------------------------------------
2454 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2455 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2456 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2457 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2458 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2459 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2460 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2464 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2465 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2467 Command-Line Interface
2468 ----------------------
2470 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2472 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2473 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2474 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2475 print for each message.
2477 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2478 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2479 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2480 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2482 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2484 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2485 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2486 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2488 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2490 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2491 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2492 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2493 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2495 `notmuch compact` command
2497 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2498 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2499 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2500 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2501 move the compacted database into place.
2506 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2508 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2509 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2510 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2511 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2512 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2513 and multiple threads.
2515 Using `notmuch-tree`
2517 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2519 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2520 search, show and tree mode itself)
2522 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2525 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2526 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2528 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2530 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2531 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2532 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2533 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2534 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2535 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2536 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2538 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2540 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2541 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2542 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2543 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2544 thread when the search was performed.
2546 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2548 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2549 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2550 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2552 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2554 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2555 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2558 Built-in help improvements
2560 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2561 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2562 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2564 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2566 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2567 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2568 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2570 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2572 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2573 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2575 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2577 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2578 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2579 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2580 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2582 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2584 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2585 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2586 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2587 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2589 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2591 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2592 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2593 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2595 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2597 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2598 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2599 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2601 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2603 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2604 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2605 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2606 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2607 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2609 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2611 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2612 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2613 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2614 the body part of the message.
2619 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2620 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2621 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2623 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2624 =========================
2626 Command-Line Interface
2627 ----------------------
2629 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2631 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2632 folder and notmuch index.
2634 `notmuch count --batch` option
2636 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2637 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2639 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2641 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2642 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2643 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2646 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2648 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2649 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2650 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2651 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2652 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2655 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2657 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2658 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2660 Top level option to specify configuration file
2662 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2663 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2665 Bash command-line completion
2667 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2668 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2669 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2670 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2671 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2672 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2673 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2674 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2675 bash-completion package.
2677 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2682 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2684 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2685 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2686 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2687 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2688 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2689 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2690 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2691 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2693 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2695 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2696 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2697 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2699 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2701 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2702 previous thread in the search results.
2704 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2706 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2707 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2709 Faster search and show
2711 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2712 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2713 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2714 threads should show faster.
2718 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2719 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2720 in question was now removed from this release.
2725 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2726 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2731 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2733 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2734 ===========================
2739 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2741 Internal test framework changes
2742 -------------------------------
2744 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2745 being unimplemented.
2747 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2748 ===========================
2750 Internal test framework changes
2751 -------------------------------
2753 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2754 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2756 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2757 =========================
2762 Date range search support
2764 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2765 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2766 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2767 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2768 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2771 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2773 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2774 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2775 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2776 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2777 but may be removed in a future release.
2779 Command-Line Interface
2780 ----------------------
2782 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2784 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2785 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2787 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2789 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2790 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2791 officially deprecated.
2793 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2795 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2796 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2797 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2799 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2801 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2802 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2805 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2806 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2807 dump/restore format.
2809 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2811 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2812 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2813 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2815 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2817 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2818 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2819 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2821 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2823 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2824 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2825 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2826 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2831 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2833 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2834 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2835 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2836 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2838 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2840 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2841 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2842 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2843 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2844 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2845 the behavior of this, see
2846 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2847 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2849 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2850 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2851 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2853 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2855 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2856 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2859 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2861 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2862 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2863 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2864 simply displayed in place of the message.
2866 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2868 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2869 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2871 Improved text/calendar content handling
2873 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2874 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2875 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2876 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2878 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2880 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2881 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2882 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2883 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2885 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2887 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2888 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2889 for HTML email containing images.
2891 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2893 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2895 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2897 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2900 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2902 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2903 the point where it was.
2905 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2907 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2908 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2909 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2910 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2911 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2913 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2915 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2916 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2917 thread instead of the message id.
2919 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2920 -----------------------------
2922 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2923 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2924 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2925 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2926 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2927 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2928 further details and installation.
2933 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2935 Internal test framework changes
2936 -------------------------------
2938 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2940 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2941 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2942 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2943 can result in buggy behavior.
2945 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2946 =========================
2951 Maildir tag synchronization
2953 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2954 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2955 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2956 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2957 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2958 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2961 Command-Line Interface
2962 ----------------------
2964 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2965 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2966 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2967 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2968 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2974 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2976 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2978 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2979 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2980 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2982 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2984 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2985 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2986 span multiple lines.
2988 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2990 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2991 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2992 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2993 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2994 inside the result or message.
2996 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2998 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2999 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3001 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3002 user-specified formatting
3004 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3005 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3006 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3007 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3008 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3010 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3011 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3013 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3014 ===========================
3019 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3020 compilation error for this contrib package.
3022 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3023 ===========================
3028 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3030 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3031 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3032 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3033 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3035 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3036 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3039 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3040 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3041 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3042 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3045 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3047 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3050 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3051 =========================
3053 Command-Line Interface
3054 ----------------------
3058 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3059 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3060 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3061 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3063 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3064 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3065 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3066 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3070 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3071 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3073 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3074 tag in your query, for example:
3076 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3078 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3079 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3081 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3082 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3084 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3086 Raw show format changes
3088 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3089 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3090 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3091 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3092 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3093 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3094 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3095 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3097 Listing configuration items
3099 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3105 Changes to tagging interface
3107 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3108 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3109 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3110 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3111 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3112 for more information.
3114 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3115 may need to update in custom configurations.
3117 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3119 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3120 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3121 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3122 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3125 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3126 -----------------------------
3128 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3129 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3130 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3131 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3132 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3133 contrib/ from now on.
3138 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3139 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3141 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3142 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3144 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3145 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3146 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3148 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3149 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3151 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3152 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3153 returning the new database object or directory object.
3160 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3161 compatible with go 1.
3163 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3164 =========================
3166 Command-Line Interface
3167 ----------------------
3171 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3172 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3173 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3174 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3176 Mail store folder/file ignore
3178 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3179 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3180 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3182 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3183 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3185 Unified help and manual pages
3187 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3188 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3191 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3193 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3194 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3202 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3203 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3204 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3205 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3207 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3209 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3210 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3212 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3215 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3216 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3217 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3219 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3221 should be changed to:
3223 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3225 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3227 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3228 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3230 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3232 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3233 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3234 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3235 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3236 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3237 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3241 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3242 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3243 of Mailing List Archives.
3245 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3247 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3248 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3251 Show view archiving key binding changes
3253 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3254 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3255 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3256 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3257 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3260 Support text/calendar MIME type
3262 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3265 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3267 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3268 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3269 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3270 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3272 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3274 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3275 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3276 messages blue by default in the search view.
3280 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3281 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3288 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3291 Python bindings changes
3292 -----------------------
3294 Python 3.2 compatibility
3296 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3298 Added missing unicode conversions
3300 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3301 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3302 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3307 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3309 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3310 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3311 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3312 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3313 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3315 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3316 ===========================
3321 Fix error handling in python bindings
3323 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3324 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3325 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3326 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3328 Quote MML tags in replies
3330 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3331 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3332 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3333 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3334 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3335 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3336 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3337 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3339 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3340 =========================
3342 Command-Line Interface
3343 ----------------------
3347 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3348 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3349 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3350 importing new messages into the database.
3352 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3354 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3355 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3356 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3361 Automatic tag query optimization
3363 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3364 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3365 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3367 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3369 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3370 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3371 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3376 Reduction of memory leaks
3378 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3379 and fixed in this release.
3386 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3387 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3388 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3391 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3393 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3394 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3395 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3398 Improvements in saved search management
3400 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3401 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3402 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3404 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3406 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3407 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3408 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3410 New face for crypto parts headers
3412 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3413 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3414 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3417 Use space as default thousands separator
3419 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3420 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3421 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3423 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3424 buttonized id: links
3426 New function notmuch-show-advance
3428 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3429 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3430 be bound to SPC with:
3432 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3434 Various performance improvements
3439 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3440 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3443 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3444 ===========================
3449 Fix crash in python bindings
3451 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3452 for some, but not all users.
3454 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3455 ===========================
3460 Fix `--help` argument
3462 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3463 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3464 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3466 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3467 =========================
3469 New build and testing features
3470 ------------------------------
3472 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3473 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3474 prerequisites is improved.
3476 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3478 New command-line features
3479 -------------------------
3481 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3483 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3484 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3487 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3489 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3490 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3491 favour of using stdout.
3493 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3495 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3496 limit the number of results shown.
3498 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3500 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3501 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3504 New emacs UI features
3505 ---------------------
3507 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3509 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3510 starting with "tag:".
3512 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3514 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3515 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3517 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3519 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3521 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3523 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3524 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3529 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3531 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3533 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3534 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3535 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3536 requires a database rebuild:
3538 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3539 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3541 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3543 New collection of add-on tools
3544 ------------------------------
3546 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3547 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3548 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3551 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3553 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3554 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3555 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3557 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3558 ========================
3560 New, general features
3561 ---------------------
3563 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3565 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3566 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3567 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3568 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3569 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3576 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3577 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3579 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3583 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3584 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3585 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3588 Python bindings changes
3589 -----------------------
3591 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3593 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3594 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3595 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3596 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3597 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3598 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3600 Ruby bindings changes
3601 ---------------------
3603 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3604 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3605 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3606 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3611 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3613 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3614 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3616 Reply formatting cleanup
3617 ------------------------
3619 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3620 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3622 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3623 ========================
3625 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3627 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3628 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3629 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3630 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3633 Improved Build system portability
3635 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3636 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3637 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3639 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3641 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3643 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3645 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3646 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3647 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3649 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3650 ========================
3652 Vim interface improvements
3653 --------------------------
3655 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3657 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3658 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3659 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3660 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3661 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3663 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3665 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3666 * fix compose temp file name
3668 Python Bindings changes
3669 -----------------------
3671 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3673 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3674 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3676 Build-System improvements
3677 -------------------------
3679 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3681 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3684 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3685 ==========================
3690 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3692 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3693 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3695 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3696 =======================
3698 New, general features
3699 ---------------------
3701 Folder-based searching
3703 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3704 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3705 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3709 For example, one might use things such as:
3715 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3716 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3718 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3719 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3720 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3721 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3723 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3724 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3725 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3728 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3729 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3731 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3733 Support for PGP/MIME
3735 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3736 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3737 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3739 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3741 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3742 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3744 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3745 notmuch will receive these tags.
3747 New command-line features
3748 -------------------------
3750 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3752 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3753 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3755 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3757 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3758 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3759 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3761 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3763 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3764 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3765 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3766 which parts a signature part applies).
3768 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3770 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3771 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3772 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3773 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3774 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3777 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3779 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3780 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3781 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3782 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3783 by translating it internally to the new call.
3785 Performance improvements
3786 ------------------------
3788 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3790 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3791 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3792 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3794 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3795 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3797 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3799 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3800 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3801 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3803 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3804 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3805 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3806 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3808 Faster initial indexing
3810 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3811 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3812 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3814 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3816 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3817 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3818 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3819 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3821 New emacs-interface features
3822 ----------------------------
3824 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3826 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3827 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3828 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3829 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3830 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3831 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3833 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3835 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3836 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3837 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3838 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3840 User-selectable From address
3842 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3843 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3844 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3845 will prompt for the from address to use.
3847 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3848 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3849 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3851 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3852 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3853 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3856 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3858 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3859 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3861 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3863 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3865 ----- Original Message -----
3867 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3868 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3869 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3870 citations work much like conventional citations.
3872 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3874 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3875 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3876 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3877 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3878 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3880 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3881 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3883 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3885 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3886 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3887 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3889 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3891 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3892 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3893 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3894 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3895 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3897 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3899 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3902 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3904 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3906 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3908 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3911 Vim interface improvements
3912 --------------------------
3914 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3916 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3917 * Implementing archive in show view
3918 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3919 * Add delete commands
3922 Bindings improvements
3923 ---------------------
3925 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3927 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3928 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3930 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3932 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3936 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3937 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3938 `list(Messages)` works now
3939 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3941 These allow, for example:
3943 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3945 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3947 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3953 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3955 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3958 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3960 New build-system features
3961 -------------------------
3963 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3965 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3966 the configure script from some other directory:
3973 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3975 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3976 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3977 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3978 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3979 manual invocation of configure.
3981 New test-suite feature
3982 ----------------------
3984 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3986 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3987 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3988 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3989 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3990 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3993 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3995 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3996 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3997 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3998 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3999 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4000 are updated to take advantage of this.
4002 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4004 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4005 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4006 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4007 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4013 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4015 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4016 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4017 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4019 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4021 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4023 to:user@elsewhere.com
4025 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4027 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4029 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4031 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4032 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4033 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4036 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4037 from the Received headers in some cases
4039 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4040 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4042 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4044 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4046 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4048 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4049 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4050 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4052 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4053 -------------------------
4055 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4057 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4058 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4059 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4061 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4063 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4064 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4065 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4068 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4070 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4071 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4072 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4073 fixed to avoid this bug.
4075 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4077 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4078 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4080 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4081 ========================
4083 New, general features
4084 ---------------------
4086 Maildir-flag synchronization
4088 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4089 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4098 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4100 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4101 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4102 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4103 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4105 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4106 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4107 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4108 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4111 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4113 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4114 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4115 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4117 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4118 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4120 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4121 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4123 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4124 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4125 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4127 New library features
4128 --------------------
4130 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4132 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4133 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4134 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4135 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4137 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4138 message with the new function:
4140 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4142 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4143 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4144 over all available filenames for a given message.
4146 New command-line features
4147 -------------------------
4149 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4151 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4152 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4153 access to the mail store itself.
4155 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4156 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4157 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4158 name of a script containing:
4160 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4162 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4163 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4169 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4171 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4173 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4175 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4176 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4177 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4178 now produces nothing).
4180 Emacs interface improvements
4181 ----------------------------
4183 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4185 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4187 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4189 Display current thread subject in a header line
4191 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4193 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4195 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4196 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4197 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4198 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4199 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4200 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4201 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4203 Vim interface improvements
4204 --------------------------
4206 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4208 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4209 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4215 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4217 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4218 ========================
4220 New command-line features
4221 -------------------------
4223 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4225 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4226 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4227 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4229 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4230 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4231 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4232 scripts. For example:
4234 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4235 <operations-on> "$file"
4238 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4240 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4241 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4242 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4243 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4244 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4245 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4247 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4249 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4250 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4251 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4252 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4254 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4256 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4257 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4258 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4259 default rather than Bcc.
4261 New library features
4262 --------------------
4264 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4266 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4267 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4272 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4274 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4275 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4276 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4277 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4278 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4279 notmuch customize interface.
4281 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4283 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4284 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4285 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4286 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4288 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4290 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4291 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4292 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4293 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4295 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4297 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4298 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4299 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4300 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4301 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4302 notmuch customize interface.
4304 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4306 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4307 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4308 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4309 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4310 notmuch customize interface.
4312 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4314 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4315 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4316 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4317 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4320 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4322 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4323 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4324 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4327 New build-system features
4328 -------------------------
4330 Various portability fixes have been applied
4332 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4333 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4334 more portable than ever before.
4336 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4338 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4339 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4340 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4342 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4343 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4344 automatically run ldconfig.
4346 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4347 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4348 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4350 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4351 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4352 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4353 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4355 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4357 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4358 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4359 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4360 used in the resulting Makefile.
4362 New test-suite features
4363 -----------------------
4365 New modularization of test suite
4367 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4368 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4369 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4370 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4371 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4372 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4373 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4374 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4376 New testing of emacs interface
4378 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4379 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4380 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4381 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4382 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4383 database via the FCC setting.
4388 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4390 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4391 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4392 persistent error of the form:
4394 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4396 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4397 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4399 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4401 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4402 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4403 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4405 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4407 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4408 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4409 parsing the notmuch results).
4411 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4413 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4416 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4417 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4418 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4423 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4425 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4426 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4427 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4428 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4429 the emacs interface.
4431 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4433 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4434 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4435 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4437 Python-binding fixes
4438 --------------------
4440 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4442 Debian-specific fixes
4443 ---------------------
4445 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4447 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4448 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4449 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4452 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4453 ==========================
4458 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4460 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4461 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4462 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4463 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4465 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4467 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4468 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4469 want notmuch to crash.
4474 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4476 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4477 directory does not exist
4482 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4484 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4485 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4487 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4488 ========================
4490 New command-line features
4491 -------------------------
4493 User-configurable tags for new messages
4495 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4496 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4497 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4498 to specify this value.
4500 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4502 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4503 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4504 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4506 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4508 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4509 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4511 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4513 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4514 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4515 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4516 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4517 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4520 Indication of author names that match a search
4522 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4523 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4524 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4525 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4526 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4527 messages in the thread are listed first.
4529 New: Python bindings
4530 --------------------
4532 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4533 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4534 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4535 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4537 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4538 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4539 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4542 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4543 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4544 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4546 Emacs interface improvements
4547 ----------------------------
4549 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4551 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4552 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4553 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4554 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4555 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4556 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4557 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4558 but without any of the disadvantages).
4560 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4561 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4562 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4565 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4566 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4567 instead running something like:
4569 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4571 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4572 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4573 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4576 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4578 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4579 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4580 tweaked by the user.
4582 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4583 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4584 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4587 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4588 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4589 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4592 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4594 This support currently relies on an external program,
4595 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4596 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4597 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4598 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4599 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4602 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4603 notmuch) is available via:
4605 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4607 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4608 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4609 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4611 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4613 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4614 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4615 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4616 making this automatic in a future release.
4618 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4620 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4621 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4622 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4623 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4624 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4625 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4628 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4630 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4631 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4632 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4634 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4636 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4637 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4638 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4640 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4641 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4642 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4643 other representation.
4645 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4646 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4649 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4651 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4652 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4653 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4655 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4656 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4657 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4659 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4661 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4662 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4663 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4664 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4665 to display the search result.
4667 More flexible handling of header visibility
4669 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4670 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4671 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4672 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4673 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4674 with the 'h' keybinding.
4676 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4677 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4678 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4680 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4682 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4684 Customizable formatting of search results
4686 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4687 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4688 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4690 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4692 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4694 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4699 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4701 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4702 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4703 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4704 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4710 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4712 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4713 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4715 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4717 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4718 accept are now all accepted.
4723 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4725 Better display of output from failed tests
4727 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4728 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4730 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4731 ========================
4733 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4734 detailed release notes this time!
4736 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4737 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4739 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4740 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4741 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4742 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4749 Better guessing of From: header
4751 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4752 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4753 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4754 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4755 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4758 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4760 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4761 guaranteed to match all messages.
4763 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4765 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4766 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4767 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4768 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4769 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4772 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4775 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4776 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4777 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4778 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4783 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4785 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4786 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4787 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4788 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4790 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4792 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4794 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4795 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4796 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4798 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4800 Previously, the user might see:
4802 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4806 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4808 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4809 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4810 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4811 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4813 Emacs client features
4814 ---------------------
4816 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4818 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4819 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4820 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4821 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4822 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4824 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4827 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4828 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4829 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4830 search with the '*' binding.
4832 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4834 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4835 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4838 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4840 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4841 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4842 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4844 Build-system features
4845 ---------------------
4847 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4849 Add support to configure for many standard options
4851 We include actual support for:
4853 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4855 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4857 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4858 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4860 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4861 separate "make install-emacs"
4863 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4865 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4866 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4867 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4869 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4872 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4873 ========================
4875 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4877 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4878 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4880 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4881 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4882 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4883 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4884 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4885 tags from messages in a thread.
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