1 Notmuch 0.23.4 (UNRELEASED)
2 ===========================
7 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
9 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
10 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
11 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
13 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
14 ===========================
16 Command Line Interface
17 ----------------------
19 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
24 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
26 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
27 ===========================
32 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
34 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
35 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
36 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
38 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
40 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
42 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
43 ===========================
48 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
50 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
55 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
57 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
58 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
61 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
62 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
64 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
66 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
67 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
68 bug, and hence the test.
70 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
71 =========================
76 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
78 Support for single argument date: queries
80 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
82 Support for blocking opens
84 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
85 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
87 Support for named queries
89 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
90 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
91 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
98 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
99 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
100 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
101 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
103 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
105 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
110 Support for compile time options
112 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
113 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
116 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
118 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
119 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
120 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
121 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
122 scripts to ignore it.
127 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
129 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
130 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
131 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
133 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
134 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
135 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
136 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
137 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
138 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
139 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
141 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
142 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
145 Make internal address completion customizable
147 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
148 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
149 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
150 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
153 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
155 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
156 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
157 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
158 completion for the current buffer.
160 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
161 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
162 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
166 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
167 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
168 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
169 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
170 will be added instead.
172 Face customization is easier
174 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
175 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
176 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
177 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
179 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
184 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
189 Go bindings moved to contrib
191 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
193 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
195 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
196 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
198 The same issue occured with sort modes.
200 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
201 ===========================
208 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
209 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
211 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
213 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
215 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
216 ===========================
221 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
223 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
228 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
233 Use `env` to locate perl.
238 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
240 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
242 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
244 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
246 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
247 =========================
254 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
255 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
257 Limited support for S/MIME messages
259 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
260 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
261 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
266 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
267 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
268 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
270 Command Line Interface
271 ----------------------
273 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
275 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
280 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
285 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
287 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
288 parts are now included in replies.
290 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
291 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
292 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
293 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
295 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
297 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
299 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
301 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
302 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
303 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
304 forwards only the current message.
306 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
308 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
309 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
310 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
311 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
312 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
313 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
314 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
315 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
318 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
319 longer generate empty buffers
321 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
322 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
323 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
324 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
325 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
327 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
329 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
332 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
334 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
337 Address completion improvements
339 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
340 you previously configured one, customize the variable
341 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
342 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
343 interactive address completion.
345 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
347 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
348 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
349 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
354 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
355 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
356 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
362 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
363 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
364 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
365 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
366 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
367 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
369 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
370 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
371 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
372 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
373 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
374 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
376 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
377 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
379 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
380 =========================
385 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
388 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
390 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
391 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
392 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
394 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
395 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
397 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
398 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
399 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
401 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
403 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
404 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
405 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
406 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
407 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
408 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
413 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
414 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
417 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
420 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
422 Command Line Interface
423 ----------------------
425 Database revision tracking
427 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
428 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
429 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
430 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
432 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
434 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
435 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
436 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
437 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
438 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
439 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
440 manual page for further information.
445 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
447 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
448 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
450 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
452 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
453 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
454 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
456 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
458 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
460 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
461 customization as well.
463 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
465 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
467 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
469 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
471 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
472 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
473 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
474 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
476 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
478 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
479 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
480 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
481 this variable to 10000.
486 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
487 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
489 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
491 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
492 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
493 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
494 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
495 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
496 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
497 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
498 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
499 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
502 Database revision tracking
504 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
505 query parser and the new function
506 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
508 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
512 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
513 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
514 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
515 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
520 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
522 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
523 ===========================
528 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
530 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
531 ===========================
536 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
538 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
539 =========================
541 Command-Line Interface
542 ----------------------
544 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
546 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
547 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
548 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
550 Path to gpg is now configurable
552 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
553 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
558 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
560 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
565 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
570 Support messages without Message-IDs.
575 Undeprecate single message mboxes
577 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
578 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
580 New error logging facility
582 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
583 output formerly printed to stderr.
585 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
587 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
589 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
591 Fix for rounding of seconds
596 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
598 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
599 docmumentation has been removed.
601 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
603 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
604 some material from the relicensed wiki.
609 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
610 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
611 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
616 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
617 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
618 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
619 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
620 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
621 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
624 git checkout config origin/config
626 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
628 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
629 =========================
634 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
635 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
636 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
637 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
638 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
639 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
640 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
642 Command-Line Interface
643 ----------------------
645 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
647 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
648 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
649 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
650 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
651 script callers should still check the return value.
653 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
655 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
656 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
657 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
658 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
659 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
660 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
661 and returning success even if indexing fails).
663 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
665 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
666 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
667 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
669 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
671 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
672 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
673 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
674 currently unmaintained.
676 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
678 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
679 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
680 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
681 have at least `N` files associated with them.
683 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
685 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
686 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
687 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
688 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
689 count of duplicate addresses.
694 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
696 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
697 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
698 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
701 Improved handling of the unread tag
703 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
704 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
705 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
706 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
707 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
708 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
709 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
711 Expanded default saved search settings
713 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
714 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
716 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
718 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
719 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
720 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
722 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
724 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
725 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
726 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
727 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
728 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
729 the variable for details.
734 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
736 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
737 Representing these independently of the database version number will
738 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
739 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
741 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
743 Previously, library users were required to call
744 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
745 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
746 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
747 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
748 too out of date for that API.
750 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
752 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
753 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
754 atomic section will be aborted.
756 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
757 `notmuch_database_destroy`
759 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
761 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
762 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
763 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
764 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
765 messages into the same thread.
770 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
771 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
772 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
773 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
774 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
775 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
780 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
781 from the config file. Use something like:
785 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
786 "footer": "</body></html>",
795 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
800 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
801 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
802 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
804 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
805 ===========================
810 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
812 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
814 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
816 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
817 structure for signatures changed slightly.
819 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
821 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
824 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
825 ===========================
827 This is a bug fix and portability release.
832 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
834 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
836 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
838 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
840 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
846 Use --quick when starting emacs
848 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
850 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
852 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
854 Command-Line Interface
855 ----------------------
857 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
858 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
863 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
865 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
866 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
868 Fix for phrase indexing
870 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
871 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
872 will affect only newly indexed messages.
877 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
879 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
880 unintentionally removed.
882 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
883 =========================
888 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
889 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
890 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
891 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
892 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
893 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
894 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
895 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
896 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
902 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
904 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
905 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
906 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
907 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
908 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
909 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
910 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
911 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
913 There is a new `path:` search prefix
915 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
916 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
917 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
918 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
921 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
923 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
924 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
925 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
926 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
927 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
928 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
929 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
934 Notmuch database upgrade
936 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
937 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
938 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
939 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
940 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
941 released version of Notmuch before now.
943 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
945 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
946 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
947 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
948 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
950 Message header parsing changes
952 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
953 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
954 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
955 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
956 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
957 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
959 Command-Line Interface
960 ----------------------
962 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
964 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
966 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
968 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
970 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
972 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
973 user does not want it.
975 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
977 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
978 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
979 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
980 support formatted output.
982 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
984 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
985 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
986 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
994 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
995 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
996 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
997 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
998 `~/.emacs` with these.
1000 Changed format for saved searches
1002 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1003 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1004 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1005 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1008 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1009 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1010 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1011 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1013 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1014 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1015 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1017 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1018 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1019 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1020 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1021 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1023 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1025 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1026 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1027 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1029 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1031 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1032 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1033 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1034 message had been unread).
1036 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1037 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1038 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1039 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1041 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1042 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1043 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1045 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1046 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1047 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1048 to tags already present.
1052 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1053 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1054 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1055 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1056 these differ from each other.
1057 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1059 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1061 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1062 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1063 for these Emacs versions.
1065 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1067 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1068 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1070 Bug fixes for sender identities
1072 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1073 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1074 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1076 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1078 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1079 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1080 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1081 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1083 Reply pushes mark before signature
1085 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1086 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1087 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1089 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1091 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1092 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1098 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1099 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1101 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1102 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1103 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1104 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1106 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1107 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1108 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1109 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1110 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1112 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1114 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1115 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1117 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1118 =========================
1120 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1121 ---------------------------------------
1123 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1124 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1125 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1126 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1127 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1128 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1129 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1133 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1134 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1136 Command-Line Interface
1137 ----------------------
1139 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1141 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1142 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1143 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1144 print for each message.
1146 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1147 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1148 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1149 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1151 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1153 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1154 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1155 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1157 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1159 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1160 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1161 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1162 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1164 `notmuch compact` command
1166 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1167 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1168 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1169 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1170 move the compacted database into place.
1175 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1177 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1178 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1179 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1180 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1181 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1182 and multiple threads.
1184 Using `notmuch-tree`
1186 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1188 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1189 search, show and tree mode itself)
1191 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1194 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1195 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1197 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1199 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1200 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1201 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1202 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1203 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1204 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1205 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1207 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1209 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1210 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1211 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1212 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1213 thread when the search was performed.
1215 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1217 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1218 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1219 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1221 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1223 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1224 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1227 Built-in help improvements
1229 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1230 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1231 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1233 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1235 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1236 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1237 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1239 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1241 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1242 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1244 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1246 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1247 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1248 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1249 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1251 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1253 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1254 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1255 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1256 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1258 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1260 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1261 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1262 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1264 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1266 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1267 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1268 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1270 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1272 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1273 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1274 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1275 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1276 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1278 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1280 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1281 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1282 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1283 the body part of the message.
1288 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1289 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1290 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1292 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1293 =========================
1295 Command-Line Interface
1296 ----------------------
1298 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1300 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1301 folder and notmuch index.
1303 `notmuch count --batch` option
1305 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1306 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1308 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1310 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1311 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1312 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1315 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1317 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1318 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1319 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1320 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1321 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1324 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1326 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1327 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1329 Top level option to specify configuration file
1331 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1332 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1334 Bash command-line completion
1336 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1337 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1338 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1339 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1340 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1341 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1342 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1343 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1344 bash-completion package.
1346 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1351 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1353 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1354 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1355 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1356 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1357 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1358 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1359 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1360 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1362 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1364 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1365 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1366 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1368 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1370 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1371 previous thread in the search results.
1373 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1375 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1376 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1378 Faster search and show
1380 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1381 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1382 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1383 threads should show faster.
1387 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1388 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1389 in question was now removed from this release.
1394 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1395 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1400 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1402 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1403 ===========================
1408 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1410 Internal test framework changes
1411 -------------------------------
1413 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1414 being unimplemented.
1416 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1417 ===========================
1419 Internal test framework changes
1420 -------------------------------
1422 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1423 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1425 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1426 =========================
1431 Date range search support
1433 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1434 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1435 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1436 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1437 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1440 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1442 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1443 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1444 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1445 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1446 but may be removed in a future release.
1448 Command-Line Interface
1449 ----------------------
1451 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1453 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1454 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1456 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1458 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1459 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1460 officially deprecated.
1462 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1464 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1465 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1466 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1468 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1470 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1471 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1474 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1475 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1476 dump/restore format.
1478 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1480 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1481 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1482 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1484 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1486 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1487 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1488 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1490 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1492 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1493 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1494 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1495 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1500 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1502 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1503 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1504 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1505 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1507 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1509 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1510 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1511 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1512 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1513 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1514 the behavior of this, see
1515 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1516 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1518 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1519 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1520 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1522 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1524 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1525 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1528 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1530 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1531 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1532 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1533 simply displayed in place of the message.
1535 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1537 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1538 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1540 Improved text/calendar content handling
1542 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1543 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1544 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1545 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1547 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1549 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1550 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1551 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1552 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1554 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1556 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1557 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1558 for HTML email containing images.
1560 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1562 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1564 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1566 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1569 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1571 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1572 the point where it was.
1574 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1576 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1577 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1578 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1579 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1580 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1582 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1584 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1585 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1586 thread instead of the message id.
1588 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1589 -----------------------------
1591 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1592 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1593 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1594 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1595 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1596 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1597 further details and installation.
1602 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1604 Internal test framework changes
1605 -------------------------------
1607 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1609 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1610 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1611 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1612 can result in buggy behavior.
1614 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1615 =========================
1620 Maildir tag synchronization
1622 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1623 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1624 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1625 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1626 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1627 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1630 Command-Line Interface
1631 ----------------------
1633 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1634 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1635 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1636 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1637 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1643 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1645 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1647 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1648 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1649 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1651 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1653 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1654 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1655 span multiple lines.
1657 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1659 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1660 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1661 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1662 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1663 inside the result or message.
1665 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1667 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1668 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1670 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1671 user-specified formatting
1673 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1674 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1675 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1676 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1677 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1679 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1680 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1682 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1683 ===========================
1688 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1689 compilation error for this contrib package.
1691 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1692 ===========================
1697 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1699 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1700 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1701 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1702 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1704 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1705 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1708 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1709 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1710 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1711 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1714 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1716 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1719 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1720 =========================
1722 Command-Line Interface
1723 ----------------------
1727 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1728 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1729 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1730 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1732 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1733 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1734 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1735 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1739 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1740 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1742 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1743 tag in your query, for example:
1745 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1747 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1748 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1750 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1751 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1753 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1755 Raw show format changes
1757 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1758 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1759 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1760 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1761 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1762 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1763 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1764 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1766 Listing configuration items
1768 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1774 Changes to tagging interface
1776 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1777 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1778 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1779 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1780 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1781 for more information.
1783 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1784 may need to update in custom configurations.
1786 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1788 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1789 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1790 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1791 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1794 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1795 -----------------------------
1797 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1798 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1799 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1800 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1801 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1802 contrib/ from now on.
1807 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1808 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1810 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1811 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1813 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1814 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1815 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1817 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1818 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1820 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1821 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1822 returning the new database object or directory object.
1829 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1830 compatible with go 1.
1832 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1833 =========================
1835 Command-Line Interface
1836 ----------------------
1840 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1841 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1842 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1843 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1845 Mail store folder/file ignore
1847 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1848 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1849 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1851 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1852 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1854 Unified help and manual pages
1856 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1857 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1860 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1862 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1863 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1871 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1872 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1873 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1874 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1876 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1878 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1879 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1881 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1884 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1885 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1886 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1888 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1890 should be changed to:
1892 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1894 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1896 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1897 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1899 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1901 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1902 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1903 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1904 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1905 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1906 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1910 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1911 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1912 of Mailing List Archives.
1914 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1916 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1917 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1920 Show view archiving key binding changes
1922 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1923 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1924 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1925 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1926 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1929 Support text/calendar MIME type
1931 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1934 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1936 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1937 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1938 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1939 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1941 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1943 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1944 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1945 messages blue by default in the search view.
1949 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1950 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1957 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1960 Python bindings changes
1961 -----------------------
1963 Python 3.2 compatibility
1965 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1967 Added missing unicode conversions
1969 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1970 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1971 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1976 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1978 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1979 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1980 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1981 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1982 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1984 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1985 ===========================
1990 Fix error handling in python bindings
1992 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1993 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1994 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1995 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1997 Quote MML tags in replies
1999 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2000 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2001 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2002 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2003 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2004 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2005 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2006 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2008 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2009 =========================
2011 Command-Line Interface
2012 ----------------------
2016 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2017 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2018 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2019 importing new messages into the database.
2021 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2023 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2024 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2025 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2030 Automatic tag query optimization
2032 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2033 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2034 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2036 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2038 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2039 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2040 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2045 Reduction of memory leaks
2047 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2048 and fixed in this release.
2055 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2056 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2057 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2060 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2062 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2063 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2064 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2067 Improvements in saved search management
2069 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2070 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2071 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2073 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2075 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2076 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2077 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2079 New face for crypto parts headers
2081 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2082 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2083 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2086 Use space as default thousands separator
2088 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2089 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2090 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2092 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2093 buttonized id: links
2095 New function notmuch-show-advance
2097 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2098 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2099 be bound to SPC with:
2101 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2103 Various performance improvements
2108 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2109 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2112 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2113 ===========================
2118 Fix crash in python bindings
2120 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2121 for some, but not all users.
2123 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2124 ===========================
2129 Fix `--help` argument
2131 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2132 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2133 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2135 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2136 =========================
2138 New build and testing features
2139 ------------------------------
2141 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2142 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2143 prerequisites is improved.
2145 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2147 New command-line features
2148 -------------------------
2150 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2152 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2153 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2156 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2158 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2159 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2160 favour of using stdout.
2162 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2164 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2165 limit the number of results shown.
2167 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2169 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2170 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2173 New emacs UI features
2174 ---------------------
2176 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2178 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2179 starting with "tag:".
2181 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2183 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2184 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2186 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2188 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2190 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2192 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2193 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2198 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2200 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2202 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2203 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2204 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2205 requires a database rebuild:
2207 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2208 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2210 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2212 New collection of add-on tools
2213 ------------------------------
2215 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2216 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2217 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2220 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2222 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2223 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2224 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2226 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2227 ========================
2229 New, general features
2230 ---------------------
2232 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2234 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2235 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2236 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2237 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2238 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2245 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2246 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2248 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2252 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2253 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2254 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2257 Python bindings changes
2258 -----------------------
2260 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2262 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2263 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2264 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2265 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2266 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2267 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2269 Ruby bindings changes
2270 ---------------------
2272 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2273 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2274 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2275 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2280 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2282 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2283 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2285 Reply formatting cleanup
2286 ------------------------
2288 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2289 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2291 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2292 ========================
2294 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2296 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2297 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2298 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2299 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2302 Improved Build system portability
2304 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2305 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2306 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2308 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2310 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2312 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2314 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2315 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2316 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2318 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2319 ========================
2321 Vim interface improvements
2322 --------------------------
2324 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2326 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2327 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2328 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2329 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2330 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2332 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2334 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2335 * fix compose temp file name
2337 Python Bindings changes
2338 -----------------------
2340 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2342 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2343 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2345 Build-System improvements
2346 -------------------------
2348 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2350 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2353 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2354 ==========================
2359 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2361 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2362 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2364 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2365 =======================
2367 New, general features
2368 ---------------------
2370 Folder-based searching
2372 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2373 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2374 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2378 For example, one might use things such as:
2384 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2385 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2387 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2388 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2389 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2390 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2392 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2393 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2394 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2397 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2398 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2400 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2402 Support for PGP/MIME
2404 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2405 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2406 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2408 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2410 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2411 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2413 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2414 notmuch will receive these tags.
2416 New command-line features
2417 -------------------------
2419 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2421 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2422 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2424 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2426 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2427 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2428 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2430 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2432 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2433 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2434 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2435 which parts a signature part applies).
2437 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2439 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2440 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2441 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2442 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2443 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2446 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2448 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2449 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2450 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2451 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2452 by translating it internally to the new call.
2454 Performance improvements
2455 ------------------------
2457 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2459 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2460 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2461 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2463 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2464 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2466 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2468 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2469 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2470 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2472 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2473 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2474 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2475 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2477 Faster initial indexing
2479 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2480 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2481 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2483 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2485 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2486 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2487 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2488 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2490 New emacs-interface features
2491 ----------------------------
2493 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2495 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2496 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2497 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2498 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2499 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2500 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2502 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2504 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2505 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2506 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2507 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2509 User-selectable From address
2511 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2512 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2513 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2514 will prompt for the from address to use.
2516 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2517 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2518 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2520 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2521 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2522 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2525 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2527 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2528 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2530 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2532 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2534 ----- Original Message -----
2536 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2537 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2538 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2539 citations work much like conventional citations.
2541 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2543 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2544 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2545 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2546 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2547 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2549 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2550 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2552 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2554 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2555 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2556 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2558 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2560 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2561 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2562 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2563 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2564 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2566 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2568 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2571 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2573 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2575 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2577 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2580 Vim interface improvements
2581 --------------------------
2583 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2585 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2586 * Implementing archive in show view
2587 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2588 * Add delete commands
2591 Bindings improvements
2592 ---------------------
2594 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2596 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2597 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2599 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2601 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2605 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2606 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2607 `list(Messages)` works now
2608 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2610 These allow, for example:
2612 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2614 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2616 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2622 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2624 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2627 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2629 New build-system features
2630 -------------------------
2632 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2634 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2635 the configure script from some other directory:
2642 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2644 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2645 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2646 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2647 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2648 manual invocation of configure.
2650 New test-suite feature
2651 ----------------------
2653 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2655 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2656 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2657 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2658 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2659 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2662 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2664 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2665 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2666 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2667 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2668 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2669 are updated to take advantage of this.
2671 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2673 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2674 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2675 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2676 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2682 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2684 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2685 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2686 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2688 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2690 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2692 to:user@elsewhere.com
2694 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2696 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2698 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2700 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2701 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2702 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2705 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2706 from the Received headers in some cases
2708 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2709 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2711 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2713 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2715 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2717 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2718 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2719 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2721 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2722 -------------------------
2724 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2726 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2727 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2728 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2730 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2732 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2733 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2734 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2737 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2739 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2740 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2741 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2742 fixed to avoid this bug.
2744 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2746 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2747 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2749 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2750 ========================
2752 New, general features
2753 ---------------------
2755 Maildir-flag synchronization
2757 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2758 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2767 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2769 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2770 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2771 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2772 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2774 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2775 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2776 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2777 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2780 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2782 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2783 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2784 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2786 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2787 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2789 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2790 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2792 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2793 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2794 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2796 New library features
2797 --------------------
2799 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2801 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2802 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2803 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2804 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2806 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2807 message with the new function:
2809 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2811 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2812 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2813 over all available filenames for a given message.
2815 New command-line features
2816 -------------------------
2818 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2820 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2821 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2822 access to the mail store itself.
2824 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2825 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2826 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2827 name of a script containing:
2829 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2831 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2832 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2838 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2840 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2842 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2844 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2845 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2846 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2847 now produces nothing).
2849 Emacs interface improvements
2850 ----------------------------
2852 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2854 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2856 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2858 Display current thread subject in a header line
2860 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2862 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2864 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2865 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2866 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2867 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2868 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2869 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2870 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2872 Vim interface improvements
2873 --------------------------
2875 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2877 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2878 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2884 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2886 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2887 ========================
2889 New command-line features
2890 -------------------------
2892 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2894 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2895 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2896 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2898 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2899 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2900 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2901 scripts. For example:
2903 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2904 <operations-on> "$file"
2907 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2909 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2910 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2911 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2912 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2913 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2914 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2916 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2918 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2919 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2920 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2921 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2923 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2925 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2926 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2927 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2928 default rather than Bcc.
2930 New library features
2931 --------------------
2933 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2935 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2936 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2941 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2943 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2944 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2945 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2946 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2947 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2948 notmuch customize interface.
2950 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2952 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2953 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2954 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2955 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2957 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2959 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2960 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2961 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2962 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2964 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2966 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2967 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2968 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2969 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2970 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2971 notmuch customize interface.
2973 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2975 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2976 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2977 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2978 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2979 notmuch customize interface.
2981 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2983 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2984 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2985 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2986 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2989 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2991 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2992 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2993 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2996 New build-system features
2997 -------------------------
2999 Various portability fixes have been applied
3001 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3002 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3003 more portable than ever before.
3005 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3007 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3008 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3009 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3011 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3012 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3013 automatically run ldconfig.
3015 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3016 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3017 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3019 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3020 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3021 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3022 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3024 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3026 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3027 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3028 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3029 used in the resulting Makefile.
3031 New test-suite features
3032 -----------------------
3034 New modularization of test suite
3036 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3037 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3038 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3039 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3040 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3041 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3042 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3043 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3045 New testing of emacs interface
3047 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3048 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3049 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3050 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3051 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3052 database via the FCC setting.
3057 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3059 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3060 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3061 persistent error of the form:
3063 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3065 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3066 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3068 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3070 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3071 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3072 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3074 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3076 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3077 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3078 parsing the notmuch results).
3080 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3082 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3085 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3086 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3087 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3092 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3094 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3095 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3096 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3097 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3098 the emacs interface.
3100 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3102 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3103 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3104 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3106 Python-binding fixes
3107 --------------------
3109 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3111 Debian-specific fixes
3112 ---------------------
3114 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3116 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3117 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3118 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3121 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3122 ==========================
3127 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3129 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3130 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3131 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3132 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3134 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3136 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3137 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3138 want notmuch to crash.
3143 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3145 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3146 directory does not exist
3151 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3153 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3154 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3156 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3157 ========================
3159 New command-line features
3160 -------------------------
3162 User-configurable tags for new messages
3164 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3165 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3166 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3167 to specify this value.
3169 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3171 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3172 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3173 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3175 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3177 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3178 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3180 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3182 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3183 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3184 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3185 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3186 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3189 Indication of author names that match a search
3191 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3192 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3193 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3194 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3195 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3196 messages in the thread are listed first.
3198 New: Python bindings
3199 --------------------
3201 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3202 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3203 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3204 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3206 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3207 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3208 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3211 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3212 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3213 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3215 Emacs interface improvements
3216 ----------------------------
3218 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3220 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3221 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3222 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3223 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3224 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3225 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3226 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3227 but without any of the disadvantages).
3229 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3230 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3231 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3234 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3235 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3236 instead running something like:
3238 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3240 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3241 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3242 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3245 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3247 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3248 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3249 tweaked by the user.
3251 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3252 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3253 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3256 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3257 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3258 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3261 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3263 This support currently relies on an external program,
3264 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3265 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3266 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3267 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3268 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3271 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3272 notmuch) is available via:
3274 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3276 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3277 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3278 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3280 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3282 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3283 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3284 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3285 making this automatic in a future release.
3287 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3289 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3290 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3291 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3292 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3293 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3294 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3297 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3299 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3300 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3301 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3303 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3305 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3306 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3307 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3309 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3310 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3311 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3312 other representation.
3314 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3315 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3318 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3320 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3321 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3322 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3324 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3325 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3326 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3328 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3330 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3331 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3332 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3333 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3334 to display the search result.
3336 More flexible handling of header visibility
3338 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3339 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3340 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3341 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3342 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3343 with the 'h' keybinding.
3345 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3346 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3347 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3349 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3351 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3353 Customizable formatting of search results
3355 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3356 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3357 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3359 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3361 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3363 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3368 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3370 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3371 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3372 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3373 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3379 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3381 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3382 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3384 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3386 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3387 accept are now all accepted.
3392 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3394 Better display of output from failed tests
3396 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3397 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3399 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3400 ========================
3402 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3403 detailed release notes this time!
3405 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3406 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3408 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3409 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3410 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3411 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3418 Better guessing of From: header
3420 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3421 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3422 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3423 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3424 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3427 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3429 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3430 guaranteed to match all messages.
3432 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3434 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3435 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3436 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3437 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3438 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3441 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3444 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3445 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3446 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3447 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3452 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3454 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3455 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3456 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3457 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3459 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3461 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3463 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3464 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3465 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3467 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3469 Previously, the user might see:
3471 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3475 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3477 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3478 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3479 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3480 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3482 Emacs client features
3483 ---------------------
3485 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3487 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3488 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3489 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3490 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3491 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3493 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3496 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3497 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3498 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3499 search with the '*' binding.
3501 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3503 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3504 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3507 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3509 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3510 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3511 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3513 Build-system features
3514 ---------------------
3516 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3518 Add support to configure for many standard options
3520 We include actual support for:
3522 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3524 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3526 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3527 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3529 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3530 separate "make install-emacs"
3532 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3534 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3535 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3536 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3538 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3541 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3542 ========================
3544 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3546 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3547 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3549 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3550 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3551 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3552 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3553 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3554 tags from messages in a thread.
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