1 Notmuch 0.33 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
9 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
10 ===========================
15 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
16 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
17 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
19 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
20 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
21 database in a pre-new hook.
23 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
24 default worked only in "notmuch config".
29 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
30 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
32 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
33 =========================
38 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
39 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
40 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
41 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
42 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
43 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
44 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
45 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
46 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
47 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
48 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
53 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
54 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
56 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
57 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
58 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
59 - `notmuch_config_get`
61 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
62 now exposed (and generalized).
64 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
65 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
66 session has been fixed.
68 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
69 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
74 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
75 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
77 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
78 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
83 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
84 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
85 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
86 when prompting for senders.
88 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
89 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
92 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
94 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
96 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
97 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
98 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
99 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
100 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
101 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
102 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
104 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
105 ===========================
110 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
115 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
117 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
118 ===========================
123 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
128 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
133 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
135 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
136 ===========================
141 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
142 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
144 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
145 ===========================
150 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
155 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
156 with a C++ header for some compilers.
158 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
160 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
161 =========================
166 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
167 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
168 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
170 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
172 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
174 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
176 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
179 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
181 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
182 search, show and tree mode)
184 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
187 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
190 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
191 always be newest first.
196 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
197 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
198 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
204 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
205 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
206 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
207 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
209 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
210 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
211 non-status providing versions.
213 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
214 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
216 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
217 promised in the documentation.
222 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
223 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
224 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
229 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
230 development version).
235 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
240 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
242 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
243 =========================
248 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
249 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
250 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
253 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
259 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
260 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
261 notmuch-properties(7)).
266 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
267 has protected headers (see
268 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
269 notmuch-properties(7)).
274 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
276 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
277 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
283 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
286 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
287 ===========================
292 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
294 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
299 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
301 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
302 ===========================
307 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
308 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
310 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
311 ===========================
316 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
318 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
319 =========================
324 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
325 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
328 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
329 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
330 the set of headers to be indexed.
332 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
335 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
336 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
337 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
340 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
341 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
342 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
344 Command Line Interface
345 ----------------------
347 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
350 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
352 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
353 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
354 more details about what is included there. This status includes
355 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
360 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
361 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
363 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
365 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
367 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
369 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
371 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
374 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
376 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
377 and may be removed in a future release.
379 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
385 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
387 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
388 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
393 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
394 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
395 cryptography support.
400 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
401 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
402 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
404 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
405 ===========================
407 Command line interface
408 ----------------------
410 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
411 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
413 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
414 ===========================
419 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
420 by message properties.
425 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
427 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
428 ===========================
433 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
438 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
439 now needed to build this documentation.
441 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
442 ===========================
447 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
448 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
450 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
451 =========================
458 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
459 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
460 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
461 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
462 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
465 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
467 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
468 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
469 correct encoding for such messages.
471 Command Line Interface
472 ----------------------
474 Support relative database paths
476 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
477 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
478 to $HOME of the invoking user.
483 Improve stderr handling
485 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
486 needed on e.g. macOS.
488 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
490 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
495 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
496 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
502 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
503 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
509 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
510 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
513 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
514 =========================
519 Add support for thread:{} queries
521 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
522 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
523 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
525 Command Line Interface
526 ----------------------
528 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
530 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
532 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
534 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
535 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
536 does not have to be available during message receipt.
541 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
547 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
548 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
550 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
551 ===========================
556 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
558 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
559 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
560 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
562 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
564 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
565 related abort in `notmuch show`.
567 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
568 ===========================
573 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
574 better late than never.
577 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
578 =========================
580 Command Line Interface
581 ----------------------
583 Support for re-indexing existing messages
585 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
586 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
587 change the way specific messages are indexed.
589 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
590 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
591 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
593 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
595 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
597 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
599 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
600 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
601 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
602 the setting of `new.tags`.
604 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
606 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
608 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
610 This inserts into the top level folder.
612 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
614 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
616 New option --output=address for notmuch address
618 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
620 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
622 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
623 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
624 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
626 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
631 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
633 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
634 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
635 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
636 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
637 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
638 config set index.decrypt true".
640 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
641 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
642 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
643 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
644 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
645 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
646 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
647 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
649 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
650 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
651 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
652 this feature without considering the security of your index.
657 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
659 Use make-process when available
661 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
662 notmuch command without using temporary files.
667 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
669 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
670 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
671 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
672 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
674 New functions to count files
676 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
677 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
679 New function to remove properties
681 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
682 drop all properties with a common pattern:
683 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
685 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
687 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
688 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
689 possibility of NULL was not documented.
691 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
693 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
694 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
695 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
696 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
697 operator may decide to change from message to message.
704 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
705 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
706 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
712 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
714 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
715 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
717 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
719 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
721 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
723 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
728 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
729 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
731 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
732 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
733 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
734 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
735 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
736 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
741 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
743 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
744 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
745 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
746 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
748 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
749 ===========================
754 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
755 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
758 Command Line Interface
759 ----------------------
761 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
762 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
765 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
766 ===========================
768 Command Line Interface
769 ----------------------
771 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
772 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
777 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
780 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
781 ===========================
786 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
789 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
790 =========================
795 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
797 Skip HTML tags when indexing
799 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
801 Command Line Interface
802 ----------------------
804 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
806 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
811 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
813 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
814 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
817 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
822 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
824 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
825 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
827 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
829 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
830 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
833 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
835 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
837 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
839 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
840 ===========================
842 Command Line Interface
843 ----------------------
845 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
850 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
852 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
853 ===========================
858 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
860 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
861 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
864 Command Line Interface
865 ----------------------
867 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
869 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
871 Fix bug in dump header
873 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
874 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
875 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
880 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
882 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
883 =========================
888 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
890 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
893 Command Line Interface
894 ----------------------
896 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
898 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
899 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
900 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
902 New default output format to 3
904 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
905 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
906 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
907 default format changes.
912 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
914 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
915 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
916 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
917 or tree view to resume.
919 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
920 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
921 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
924 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
925 they were when you postponed in the final message.
929 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
930 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
931 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
932 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
933 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
937 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
938 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
939 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
940 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
941 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
942 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
946 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
947 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
949 Stop display of `application/*` parts
951 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
952 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
953 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
954 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
955 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
956 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
957 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
958 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
961 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
963 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
964 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
965 only tagged the current thread.)
967 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
969 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
970 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
971 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
973 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
975 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
976 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
977 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
978 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
979 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
980 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
981 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
983 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
985 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
986 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
987 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
992 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
994 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
997 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
999 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1002 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1003 ===========================
1008 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1010 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1011 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1012 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1015 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1016 ===========================
1018 Command Line Interface
1019 ----------------------
1021 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1026 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1028 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1029 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1030 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1032 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1033 ===========================
1038 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1039 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1041 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1042 ===========================
1044 Command Line Interface
1045 ----------------------
1047 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1049 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1050 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1051 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1056 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1058 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1059 ===========================
1061 Command Line Interface
1062 ----------------------
1064 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1069 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1071 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1072 ===========================
1077 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1079 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1080 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1081 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1083 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1085 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1087 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1088 ===========================
1093 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1095 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1100 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1102 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1103 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1104 the original colours.
1106 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1107 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1109 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1111 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1112 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1113 bug, and hence the test.
1115 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1116 =========================
1118 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1119 ---------------------
1121 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1123 Support for single argument date: queries
1125 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1127 Support for blocking opens
1129 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1130 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1132 Support for named queries
1134 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1135 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1136 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1141 Message property API
1143 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1144 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1145 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1146 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1148 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1150 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1155 Support for compile time options
1157 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1158 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1161 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1163 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1164 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1165 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1166 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1167 scripts to ignore it.
1172 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1174 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1175 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1176 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1178 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1179 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1180 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1181 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1182 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1183 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1184 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1186 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1187 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1190 Make internal address completion customizable
1192 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1193 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1194 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1195 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1198 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1200 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1201 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1202 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1203 completion for the current buffer.
1205 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1206 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1207 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1211 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1212 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1213 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1214 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1215 will be added instead.
1217 Face customization is easier
1219 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1220 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1221 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1222 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1224 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1229 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1234 Go bindings moved to contrib
1236 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1238 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1240 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1241 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1243 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1245 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1246 ===========================
1253 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1254 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1256 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1258 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1260 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1261 ===========================
1266 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1268 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1273 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1278 Use `env` to locate perl.
1283 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1285 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1287 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1289 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1291 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1292 =========================
1299 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1300 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1302 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1304 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1305 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1306 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1311 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1312 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1313 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1315 Command Line Interface
1316 ----------------------
1318 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1320 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1325 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1330 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1332 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1333 parts are now included in replies.
1335 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1336 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1337 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1338 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1340 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1342 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1344 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1346 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1347 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1348 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1349 forwards only the current message.
1351 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1353 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1354 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1355 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1356 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1357 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1358 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1359 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1360 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1363 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1364 longer generate empty buffers
1366 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1367 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1368 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1369 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1370 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1372 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1374 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1377 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1379 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1382 Address completion improvements
1384 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1385 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1386 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1387 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1388 interactive address completion.
1390 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1392 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1393 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1394 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1399 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1400 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1401 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1407 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1408 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1409 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1410 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1411 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1412 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1414 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1415 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1416 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1417 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1418 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1419 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1421 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1422 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1424 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1425 =========================
1430 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1433 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1435 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1436 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1437 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1439 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1440 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1442 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1443 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1444 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1446 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1448 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1449 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1450 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1451 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1452 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1453 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1458 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1459 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1462 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1463 option to configure.
1465 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1467 Command Line Interface
1468 ----------------------
1470 Database revision tracking
1472 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1473 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1474 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1475 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1477 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1479 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1480 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1481 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1482 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1483 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1484 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1485 manual page for further information.
1490 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1492 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1493 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1495 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1497 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1498 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1499 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1501 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1503 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1505 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1506 customization as well.
1508 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1510 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1512 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1514 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1516 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1517 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1518 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1519 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1521 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1523 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1524 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1525 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1526 this variable to 10000.
1531 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1532 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1534 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1536 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1537 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1538 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1539 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1540 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1541 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1542 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1543 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1544 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1547 Database revision tracking
1549 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1550 query parser and the new function
1551 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1553 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1555 Deprecated functions
1557 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1558 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1559 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1560 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1565 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1567 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1568 ===========================
1573 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1575 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1576 ===========================
1581 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1583 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1584 =========================
1586 Command-Line Interface
1587 ----------------------
1589 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1591 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1592 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1593 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1595 Path to gpg is now configurable
1597 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1598 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1603 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1605 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1610 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1615 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1620 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1622 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1623 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1625 New error logging facility
1627 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1628 output formerly printed to stderr.
1630 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1632 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1634 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1636 Fix for rounding of seconds
1641 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1643 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1644 documentation has been removed.
1646 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1648 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1649 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1654 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1655 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1656 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1661 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1662 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1663 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1664 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1665 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1666 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1669 git checkout config origin/config
1671 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1673 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1674 =========================
1679 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1680 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1681 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1682 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1683 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1684 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1685 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1687 Command-Line Interface
1688 ----------------------
1690 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1692 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1693 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1694 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1695 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1696 script callers should still check the return value.
1698 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1700 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1701 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1702 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1703 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1704 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1705 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1706 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1708 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1710 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1711 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1712 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1714 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1716 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1717 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1718 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1719 currently unmaintained.
1721 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1723 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1724 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1725 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1726 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1728 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1730 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1731 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1732 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1733 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1734 count of duplicate addresses.
1739 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1741 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1742 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1743 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1746 Improved handling of the unread tag
1748 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1749 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1750 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1751 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1752 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1753 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1754 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1756 Expanded default saved search settings
1758 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1759 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1761 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1763 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1764 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1765 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1767 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1769 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1770 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1771 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1772 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1773 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1774 the variable for details.
1779 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1781 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1782 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1783 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1784 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1786 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1788 Previously, library users were required to call
1789 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1790 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1791 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1792 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1793 too out of date for that API.
1795 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1797 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1798 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1799 atomic section will be aborted.
1801 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1802 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1804 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1806 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1807 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1808 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1809 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1810 messages into the same thread.
1815 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1816 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1817 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1818 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1819 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1820 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1825 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1826 from the config file. Use something like:
1830 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1831 "footer": "</body></html>",
1840 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1845 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1846 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1847 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1849 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1850 ===========================
1855 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1857 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1859 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1861 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1862 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1864 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1866 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1869 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1870 ===========================
1872 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1877 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1879 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1881 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1883 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1885 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1891 Use --quick when starting emacs
1893 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1895 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1897 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1899 Command-Line Interface
1900 ----------------------
1902 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1903 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1908 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1910 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1911 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1913 Fix for phrase indexing
1915 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1916 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1917 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1922 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1924 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1925 unintentionally removed.
1927 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1928 =========================
1933 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1934 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1935 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1936 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1937 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1938 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1939 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1940 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1941 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1947 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1949 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1950 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1951 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1952 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1953 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1954 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1955 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1956 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1958 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1960 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1961 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1962 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1963 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1966 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1968 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1969 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1970 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1971 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1972 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1973 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1974 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1979 Notmuch database upgrade
1981 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1982 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1983 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1984 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1985 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1986 released version of Notmuch before now.
1988 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1990 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1991 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1992 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1993 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1995 Message header parsing changes
1997 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1998 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1999 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2000 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2001 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2002 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2004 Command-Line Interface
2005 ----------------------
2007 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2009 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2011 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2013 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2015 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2017 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2018 user does not want it.
2020 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2022 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2023 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2024 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2025 support formatted output.
2027 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2029 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2030 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2031 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2039 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2040 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2041 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2042 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2043 `~/.emacs` with these.
2045 Changed format for saved searches
2047 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2048 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2049 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2050 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2053 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2054 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2055 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2056 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2058 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2059 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2060 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2062 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2063 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2064 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2065 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2066 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2068 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2070 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2071 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2072 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2074 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2076 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2077 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2078 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2079 message had been unread).
2081 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2082 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2083 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2084 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2086 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2087 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2088 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2090 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2091 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2092 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2093 to tags already present.
2097 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2098 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2099 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2100 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2101 these differ from each other.
2102 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2104 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2106 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2107 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2108 for these Emacs versions.
2110 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2112 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2113 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2115 Bug fixes for sender identities
2117 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2118 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2119 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2121 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2123 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2124 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2125 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2126 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2128 Reply pushes mark before signature
2130 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2131 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2132 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2134 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2136 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2137 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2143 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2144 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2146 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2147 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2148 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2149 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2151 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2152 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2153 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2154 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2155 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2157 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2159 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2160 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2162 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2163 =========================
2165 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2166 ---------------------------------------
2168 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2169 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2170 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2171 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2172 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2173 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2174 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2178 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2179 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2181 Command-Line Interface
2182 ----------------------
2184 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2186 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2187 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2188 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2189 print for each message.
2191 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2192 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2193 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2194 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2196 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2198 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2199 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2200 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2202 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2204 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2205 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2206 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2207 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2209 `notmuch compact` command
2211 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2212 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2213 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2214 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2215 move the compacted database into place.
2220 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2222 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2223 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2224 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2225 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2226 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2227 and multiple threads.
2229 Using `notmuch-tree`
2231 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2233 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2234 search, show and tree mode itself)
2236 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2239 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2240 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2242 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2244 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2245 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2246 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2247 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2248 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2249 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2250 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2252 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2254 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2255 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2256 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2257 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2258 thread when the search was performed.
2260 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2262 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2263 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2264 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2266 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2268 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2269 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2272 Built-in help improvements
2274 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2275 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2276 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2278 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2280 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2281 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2282 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2284 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2286 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2287 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2289 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2291 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2292 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2293 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2294 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2296 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2298 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2299 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2300 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2301 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2303 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2305 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2306 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2307 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2309 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2311 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2312 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2313 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2315 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2317 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2318 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2319 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2320 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2321 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2323 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2325 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2326 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2327 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2328 the body part of the message.
2333 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2334 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2335 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2337 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2338 =========================
2340 Command-Line Interface
2341 ----------------------
2343 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2345 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2346 folder and notmuch index.
2348 `notmuch count --batch` option
2350 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2351 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2353 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2355 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2356 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2357 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2360 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2362 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2363 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2364 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2365 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2366 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2369 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2371 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2372 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2374 Top level option to specify configuration file
2376 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2377 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2379 Bash command-line completion
2381 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2382 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2383 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2384 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2385 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2386 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2387 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2388 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2389 bash-completion package.
2391 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2396 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2398 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2399 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2400 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2401 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2402 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2403 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2404 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2405 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2407 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2409 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2410 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2411 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2413 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2415 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2416 previous thread in the search results.
2418 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2420 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2421 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2423 Faster search and show
2425 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2426 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2427 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2428 threads should show faster.
2432 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2433 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2434 in question was now removed from this release.
2439 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2440 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2445 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2447 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2448 ===========================
2453 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2455 Internal test framework changes
2456 -------------------------------
2458 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2459 being unimplemented.
2461 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2462 ===========================
2464 Internal test framework changes
2465 -------------------------------
2467 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2468 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2470 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2471 =========================
2476 Date range search support
2478 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2479 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2480 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2481 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2482 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2485 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2487 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2488 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2489 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2490 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2491 but may be removed in a future release.
2493 Command-Line Interface
2494 ----------------------
2496 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2498 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2499 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2501 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2503 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2504 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2505 officially deprecated.
2507 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2509 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2510 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2511 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2513 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2515 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2516 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2519 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2520 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2521 dump/restore format.
2523 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2525 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2526 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2527 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2529 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2531 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2532 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2533 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2535 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2537 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2538 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2539 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2540 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2545 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2547 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2548 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2549 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2550 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2552 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2554 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2555 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2556 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2557 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2558 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2559 the behavior of this, see
2560 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2561 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2563 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2564 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2565 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2567 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2569 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2570 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2573 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2575 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2576 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2577 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2578 simply displayed in place of the message.
2580 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2582 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2583 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2585 Improved text/calendar content handling
2587 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2588 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2589 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2590 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2592 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2594 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2595 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2596 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2597 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2599 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2601 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2602 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2603 for HTML email containing images.
2605 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2607 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2609 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2611 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2614 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2616 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2617 the point where it was.
2619 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2621 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2622 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2623 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2624 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2625 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2627 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2629 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2630 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2631 thread instead of the message id.
2633 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2634 -----------------------------
2636 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2637 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2638 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2639 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2640 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2641 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2642 further details and installation.
2647 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2649 Internal test framework changes
2650 -------------------------------
2652 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2654 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2655 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2656 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2657 can result in buggy behavior.
2659 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2660 =========================
2665 Maildir tag synchronization
2667 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2668 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2669 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2670 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2671 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2672 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2675 Command-Line Interface
2676 ----------------------
2678 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2679 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2680 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2681 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2682 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2688 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2690 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2692 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2693 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2694 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2696 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2698 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2699 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2700 span multiple lines.
2702 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2704 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2705 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2706 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2707 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2708 inside the result or message.
2710 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2712 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2713 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2715 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2716 user-specified formatting
2718 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2719 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2720 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2721 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2722 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2724 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2725 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2727 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2728 ===========================
2733 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2734 compilation error for this contrib package.
2736 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2737 ===========================
2742 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2744 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2745 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2746 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2747 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2749 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2750 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2753 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2754 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2755 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2756 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2759 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2761 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2764 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2765 =========================
2767 Command-Line Interface
2768 ----------------------
2772 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2773 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2774 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2775 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2777 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2778 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2779 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2780 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2784 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2785 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2787 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2788 tag in your query, for example:
2790 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2792 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2793 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2795 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2796 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2798 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2800 Raw show format changes
2802 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2803 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2804 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2805 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2806 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2807 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2808 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2809 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2811 Listing configuration items
2813 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2819 Changes to tagging interface
2821 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2822 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2823 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2824 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2825 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2826 for more information.
2828 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2829 may need to update in custom configurations.
2831 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2833 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2834 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2835 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2836 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2839 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2840 -----------------------------
2842 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2843 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2844 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2845 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2846 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2847 contrib/ from now on.
2852 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2853 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2855 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2856 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2858 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2859 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2860 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2862 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2863 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2865 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2866 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2867 returning the new database object or directory object.
2874 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2875 compatible with go 1.
2877 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2878 =========================
2880 Command-Line Interface
2881 ----------------------
2885 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2886 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2887 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2888 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2890 Mail store folder/file ignore
2892 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2893 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2894 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2896 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2897 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2899 Unified help and manual pages
2901 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2902 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2905 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2907 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2908 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2916 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2917 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2918 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2919 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2921 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2923 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2924 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2926 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2929 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2930 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2931 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2933 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2935 should be changed to:
2937 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2939 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2941 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2942 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2944 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2946 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2947 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2948 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2949 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2950 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2951 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2955 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2956 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2957 of Mailing List Archives.
2959 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2961 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2962 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2965 Show view archiving key binding changes
2967 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2968 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2969 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2970 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2971 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2974 Support text/calendar MIME type
2976 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2979 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2981 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2982 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2983 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2984 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2986 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2988 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2989 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2990 messages blue by default in the search view.
2994 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2995 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3002 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3005 Python bindings changes
3006 -----------------------
3008 Python 3.2 compatibility
3010 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3012 Added missing unicode conversions
3014 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3015 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3016 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3021 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3023 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3024 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3025 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3026 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3027 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3029 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3030 ===========================
3035 Fix error handling in python bindings
3037 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3038 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3039 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3040 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3042 Quote MML tags in replies
3044 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3045 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3046 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3047 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3048 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3049 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3050 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3051 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3053 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3054 =========================
3056 Command-Line Interface
3057 ----------------------
3061 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3062 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3063 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3064 importing new messages into the database.
3066 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3068 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3069 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3070 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3075 Automatic tag query optimization
3077 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3078 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3079 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3081 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3083 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3084 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3085 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3090 Reduction of memory leaks
3092 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3093 and fixed in this release.
3100 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3101 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3102 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3105 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3107 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3108 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3109 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3112 Improvements in saved search management
3114 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3115 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3116 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3118 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3120 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3121 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3122 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3124 New face for crypto parts headers
3126 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3127 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3128 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3131 Use space as default thousands separator
3133 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3134 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3135 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3137 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3138 buttonized id: links
3140 New function notmuch-show-advance
3142 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3143 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3144 be bound to SPC with:
3146 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3148 Various performance improvements
3153 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3154 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3157 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3158 ===========================
3163 Fix crash in python bindings
3165 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3166 for some, but not all users.
3168 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3169 ===========================
3174 Fix `--help` argument
3176 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3177 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3178 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3180 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3181 =========================
3183 New build and testing features
3184 ------------------------------
3186 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3187 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3188 prerequisites is improved.
3190 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3192 New command-line features
3193 -------------------------
3195 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3197 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3198 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3201 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3203 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3204 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3205 favour of using stdout.
3207 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3209 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3210 limit the number of results shown.
3212 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3214 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3215 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3218 New emacs UI features
3219 ---------------------
3221 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3223 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3224 starting with "tag:".
3226 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3228 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3229 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3231 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3233 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3235 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3237 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3238 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3243 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3245 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3247 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3248 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3249 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3250 requires a database rebuild:
3252 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3253 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3255 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3257 New collection of add-on tools
3258 ------------------------------
3260 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3261 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3262 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3265 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3267 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3268 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3269 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3271 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3272 ========================
3274 New, general features
3275 ---------------------
3277 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3279 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3280 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3281 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3282 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3283 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3290 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3291 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3293 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3297 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3298 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3299 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3302 Python bindings changes
3303 -----------------------
3305 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3307 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3308 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3309 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3310 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3311 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3312 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3314 Ruby bindings changes
3315 ---------------------
3317 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3318 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3319 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3320 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3325 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3327 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3328 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3330 Reply formatting cleanup
3331 ------------------------
3333 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3334 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3336 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3337 ========================
3339 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3341 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3342 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3343 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3344 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3347 Improved Build system portability
3349 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3350 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3351 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3353 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3355 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3357 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3359 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3360 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3361 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3363 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3364 ========================
3366 Vim interface improvements
3367 --------------------------
3369 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3371 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3372 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3373 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3374 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3375 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3377 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3379 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3380 * fix compose temp file name
3382 Python Bindings changes
3383 -----------------------
3385 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3387 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3388 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3390 Build-System improvements
3391 -------------------------
3393 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3395 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3398 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3399 ==========================
3404 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3406 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3407 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3409 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3410 =======================
3412 New, general features
3413 ---------------------
3415 Folder-based searching
3417 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3418 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3419 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3423 For example, one might use things such as:
3429 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3430 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3432 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3433 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3434 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3435 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3437 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3438 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3439 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3442 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3443 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3445 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3447 Support for PGP/MIME
3449 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3450 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3451 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3453 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3455 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3456 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3458 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3459 notmuch will receive these tags.
3461 New command-line features
3462 -------------------------
3464 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3466 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3467 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3469 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3471 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3472 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3473 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3475 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3477 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3478 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3479 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3480 which parts a signature part applies).
3482 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3484 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3485 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3486 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3487 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3488 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3491 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3493 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3494 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3495 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3496 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3497 by translating it internally to the new call.
3499 Performance improvements
3500 ------------------------
3502 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3504 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3505 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3506 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3508 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3509 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3511 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3513 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3514 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3515 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3517 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3518 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3519 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3520 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3522 Faster initial indexing
3524 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3525 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3526 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3528 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3530 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3531 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3532 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3533 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3535 New emacs-interface features
3536 ----------------------------
3538 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3540 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3541 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3542 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3543 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3544 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3545 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3547 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3549 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3550 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3551 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3552 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3554 User-selectable From address
3556 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3557 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3558 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3559 will prompt for the from address to use.
3561 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3562 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3563 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3565 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3566 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3567 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3570 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3572 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3573 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3575 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3577 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3579 ----- Original Message -----
3581 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3582 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3583 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3584 citations work much like conventional citations.
3586 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3588 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3589 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3590 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3591 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3592 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3594 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3595 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3597 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3599 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3600 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3601 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3603 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3605 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3606 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3607 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3608 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3609 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3611 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3613 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3616 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3618 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3620 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3622 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3625 Vim interface improvements
3626 --------------------------
3628 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3630 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3631 * Implementing archive in show view
3632 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3633 * Add delete commands
3636 Bindings improvements
3637 ---------------------
3639 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3641 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3642 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3644 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3646 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3650 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3651 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3652 `list(Messages)` works now
3653 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3655 These allow, for example:
3657 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3659 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3661 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3667 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3669 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3672 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3674 New build-system features
3675 -------------------------
3677 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3679 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3680 the configure script from some other directory:
3687 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3689 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3690 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3691 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3692 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3693 manual invocation of configure.
3695 New test-suite feature
3696 ----------------------
3698 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3700 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3701 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3702 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3703 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3704 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3707 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3709 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3710 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3711 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3712 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3713 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3714 are updated to take advantage of this.
3716 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3718 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3719 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3720 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3721 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3727 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3729 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3730 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3731 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3733 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3735 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3737 to:user@elsewhere.com
3739 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3741 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3743 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3745 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3746 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3747 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3750 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3751 from the Received headers in some cases
3753 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3754 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3756 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3758 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3760 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3762 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3763 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3764 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3766 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3767 -------------------------
3769 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3771 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3772 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3773 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3775 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3777 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3778 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3779 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3782 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3784 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3785 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3786 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3787 fixed to avoid this bug.
3789 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3791 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3792 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3794 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3795 ========================
3797 New, general features
3798 ---------------------
3800 Maildir-flag synchronization
3802 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3803 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3812 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3814 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3815 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3816 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3817 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3819 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3820 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3821 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3822 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3825 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3827 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3828 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3829 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3831 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3832 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3834 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3835 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3837 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3838 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3839 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3841 New library features
3842 --------------------
3844 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3846 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3847 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3848 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3849 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3851 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3852 message with the new function:
3854 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3856 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3857 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3858 over all available filenames for a given message.
3860 New command-line features
3861 -------------------------
3863 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3865 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3866 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3867 access to the mail store itself.
3869 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3870 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3871 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3872 name of a script containing:
3874 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3876 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3877 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3883 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3885 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3887 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3889 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3890 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3891 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3892 now produces nothing).
3894 Emacs interface improvements
3895 ----------------------------
3897 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3899 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3901 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3903 Display current thread subject in a header line
3905 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3907 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3909 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3910 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3911 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3912 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3913 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3914 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3915 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3917 Vim interface improvements
3918 --------------------------
3920 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3922 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3923 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3929 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3931 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3932 ========================
3934 New command-line features
3935 -------------------------
3937 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3939 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3940 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3941 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3943 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3944 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3945 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3946 scripts. For example:
3948 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3949 <operations-on> "$file"
3952 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3954 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3955 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3956 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3957 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3958 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3959 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3961 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3963 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3964 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3965 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3966 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3968 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3970 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3971 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3972 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3973 default rather than Bcc.
3975 New library features
3976 --------------------
3978 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3980 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3981 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3986 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3988 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3989 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3990 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3991 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3992 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3993 notmuch customize interface.
3995 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3997 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3998 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3999 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4000 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4002 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4004 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4005 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4006 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4007 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4009 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4011 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4012 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4013 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4014 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4015 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4016 notmuch customize interface.
4018 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4020 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4021 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4022 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4023 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4024 notmuch customize interface.
4026 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4028 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4029 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4030 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4031 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4034 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4036 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4037 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4038 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4041 New build-system features
4042 -------------------------
4044 Various portability fixes have been applied
4046 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4047 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4048 more portable than ever before.
4050 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4052 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4053 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4054 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4056 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4057 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4058 automatically run ldconfig.
4060 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4061 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4062 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4064 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4065 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4066 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4067 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4069 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4071 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4072 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4073 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4074 used in the resulting Makefile.
4076 New test-suite features
4077 -----------------------
4079 New modularization of test suite
4081 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4082 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4083 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4084 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4085 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4086 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4087 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4088 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4090 New testing of emacs interface
4092 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4093 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4094 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4095 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4096 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4097 database via the FCC setting.
4102 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4104 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4105 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4106 persistent error of the form:
4108 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4110 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4111 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4113 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4115 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4116 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4117 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4119 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4121 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4122 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4123 parsing the notmuch results).
4125 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4127 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4130 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4131 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4132 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4137 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4139 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4140 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4141 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4142 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4143 the emacs interface.
4145 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4147 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4148 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4149 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4151 Python-binding fixes
4152 --------------------
4154 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4156 Debian-specific fixes
4157 ---------------------
4159 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4161 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4162 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4163 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4166 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4167 ==========================
4172 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4174 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4175 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4176 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4177 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4179 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4181 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4182 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4183 want notmuch to crash.
4188 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4190 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4191 directory does not exist
4196 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4198 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4199 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4201 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4202 ========================
4204 New command-line features
4205 -------------------------
4207 User-configurable tags for new messages
4209 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4210 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4211 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4212 to specify this value.
4214 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4216 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4217 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4218 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4220 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4222 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4223 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4225 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4227 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4228 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4229 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4230 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4231 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4234 Indication of author names that match a search
4236 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4237 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4238 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4239 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4240 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4241 messages in the thread are listed first.
4243 New: Python bindings
4244 --------------------
4246 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4247 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4248 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4249 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4251 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4252 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4253 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4256 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4257 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4258 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4260 Emacs interface improvements
4261 ----------------------------
4263 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4265 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4266 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4267 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4268 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4269 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4270 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4271 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4272 but without any of the disadvantages).
4274 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4275 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4276 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4279 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4280 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4281 instead running something like:
4283 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4285 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4286 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4287 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4290 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4292 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4293 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4294 tweaked by the user.
4296 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4297 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4298 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4301 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4302 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4303 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4306 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4308 This support currently relies on an external program,
4309 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4310 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4311 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4312 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4313 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4316 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4317 notmuch) is available via:
4319 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4321 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4322 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4323 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4325 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4327 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4328 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4329 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4330 making this automatic in a future release.
4332 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4334 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4335 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4336 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4337 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4338 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4339 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4342 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4344 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4345 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4346 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4348 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4350 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4351 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4352 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4354 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4355 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4356 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4357 other representation.
4359 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4360 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4363 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4365 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4366 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4367 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4369 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4370 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4371 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4373 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4375 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4376 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4377 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4378 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4379 to display the search result.
4381 More flexible handling of header visibility
4383 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4384 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4385 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4386 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4387 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4388 with the 'h' keybinding.
4390 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4391 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4392 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4394 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4396 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4398 Customizable formatting of search results
4400 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4401 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4402 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4404 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4406 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4408 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4413 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4415 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4416 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4417 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4418 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4424 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4426 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4427 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4429 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4431 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4432 accept are now all accepted.
4437 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4439 Better display of output from failed tests
4441 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4442 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4444 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4445 ========================
4447 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4448 detailed release notes this time!
4450 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4451 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4453 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4454 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4455 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4456 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4463 Better guessing of From: header
4465 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4466 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4467 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4468 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4469 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4472 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4474 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4475 guaranteed to match all messages.
4477 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4479 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4480 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4481 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4482 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4483 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4486 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4489 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4490 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4491 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4492 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4497 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4499 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4500 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4501 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4502 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4504 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4506 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4508 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4509 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4510 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4512 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4514 Previously, the user might see:
4516 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4520 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4522 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4523 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4524 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4525 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4527 Emacs client features
4528 ---------------------
4530 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4532 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4533 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4534 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4535 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4536 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4538 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4541 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4542 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4543 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4544 search with the '*' binding.
4546 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4548 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4549 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4552 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4554 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4555 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4556 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4558 Build-system features
4559 ---------------------
4561 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4563 Add support to configure for many standard options
4565 We include actual support for:
4567 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4569 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4571 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4572 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4574 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4575 separate "make install-emacs"
4577 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4579 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4580 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4581 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4583 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4586 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4587 ========================
4589 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4591 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4592 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4594 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4595 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4596 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4597 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4598 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4599 tags from messages in a thread.
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