1 Notmuch 0.23 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Face customization is easier
9 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
10 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
11 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
12 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
17 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
22 Go bindings moved to contrib
24 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
26 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore.
28 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
29 because DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY and DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE were
31 The same issue occured with sort modes.
33 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
34 ===========================
41 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
42 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
44 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
46 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
48 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
49 ===========================
54 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
56 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
61 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
66 Use `env` to locate perl.
71 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
73 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
75 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
77 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
79 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
80 =========================
87 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
88 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
90 Limited support for S/MIME messages
92 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
93 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
94 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
99 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
100 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
101 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
103 Command Line Interface
104 ----------------------
106 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
108 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
113 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
118 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
120 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
121 parts are now included in replies.
123 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
124 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
125 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
126 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
128 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
130 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
132 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
134 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
135 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
136 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
137 forwards only the current message.
139 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
141 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
142 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
143 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
144 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
145 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
146 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
147 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
148 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
151 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
152 longer generate empty buffers
154 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
155 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
156 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
157 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
158 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
160 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
162 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
165 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
167 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
170 Address completion improvements
172 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
173 you previously configured one, customize the variable
174 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
175 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
176 interactive address completion.
178 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
180 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
181 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
182 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
187 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
188 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
189 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
195 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
196 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
197 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
198 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
199 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
200 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
202 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
203 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
204 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
205 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
206 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
207 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
209 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
210 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
212 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
213 =========================
218 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
221 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
223 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
224 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
225 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
227 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
228 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
230 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
231 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
232 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
234 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
236 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
237 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
238 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
239 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
240 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
241 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
246 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
247 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
250 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
253 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
255 Command Line Interface
256 ----------------------
258 Database revision tracking
260 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
261 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
262 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
263 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
265 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
267 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
268 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
269 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
270 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
271 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
272 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
273 manual page for further information.
278 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
280 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
281 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
283 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
285 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
286 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
287 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
289 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
291 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
293 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
294 customization as well.
296 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
298 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
300 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
302 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
304 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
305 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
306 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
307 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
309 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
311 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
312 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
313 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
314 this variable to 10000.
319 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
320 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
322 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
324 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
325 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
326 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
327 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
328 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
329 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
330 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
331 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
332 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
335 Database revision tracking
337 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
338 query parser and the new function
339 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
341 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
345 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
346 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
347 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
348 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
353 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
355 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
356 ===========================
361 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
363 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
364 ===========================
369 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
371 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
372 =========================
374 Command-Line Interface
375 ----------------------
377 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
379 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
380 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
381 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
383 Path to gpg is now configurable
385 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
386 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
391 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
393 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
398 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
403 Support messages without Message-IDs.
408 Undeprecate single message mboxes
410 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
411 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
413 New error logging facility
415 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
416 output formerly printed to stderr.
418 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
420 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
422 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
424 Fix for rounding of seconds
429 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
431 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
432 docmumentation has been removed.
434 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
436 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
437 some material from the relicensed wiki.
442 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
443 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
444 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
449 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
450 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
451 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
452 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
453 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
454 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
457 git checkout config origin/config
459 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
461 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
462 =========================
467 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
468 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
469 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
470 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
471 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
472 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
473 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
475 Command-Line Interface
476 ----------------------
478 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
480 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
481 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
482 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
483 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
484 script callers should still check the return value.
486 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
488 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
489 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
490 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
491 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
492 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
493 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
494 and returning success even if indexing fails).
496 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
498 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
499 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
500 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
502 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
504 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
505 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
506 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
507 currently unmaintained.
509 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
511 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
512 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
513 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
514 have at least `N` files associated with them.
516 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
518 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
519 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
520 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
521 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
522 count of duplicate addresses.
527 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
529 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
530 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
531 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
534 Improved handling of the unread tag
536 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
537 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
538 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
539 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
540 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
541 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
542 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
544 Expanded default saved search settings
546 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
547 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
549 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
551 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
552 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
553 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
555 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
557 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
558 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
559 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
560 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
561 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
562 the variable for details.
567 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
569 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
570 Representing these independently of the database version number will
571 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
572 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
574 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
576 Previously, library users were required to call
577 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
578 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
579 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
580 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
581 too out of date for that API.
583 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
585 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
586 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
587 atomic section will be aborted.
589 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
590 `notmuch_database_destroy`
592 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
594 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
595 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
596 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
597 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
598 messages into the same thread.
603 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
604 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
605 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
606 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
607 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
608 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
613 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
614 from the config file. Use something like:
618 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
619 "footer": "</body></html>",
628 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
633 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
634 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
635 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
637 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
638 ===========================
643 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
645 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
647 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
649 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
650 structure for signatures changed slightly.
652 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
654 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
657 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
658 ===========================
660 This is a bug fix and portability release.
665 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
667 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
669 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
671 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
673 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
679 Use --quick when starting emacs
681 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
683 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
685 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
687 Command-Line Interface
688 ----------------------
690 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
691 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
696 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
698 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
699 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
701 Fix for phrase indexing
703 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
704 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
705 will affect only newly indexed messages.
710 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
712 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
713 unintentionally removed.
715 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
716 =========================
721 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
722 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
723 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
724 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
725 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
726 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
727 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
728 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
729 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
735 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
737 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
738 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
739 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
740 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
741 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
742 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
743 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
744 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
746 There is a new `path:` search prefix
748 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
749 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
750 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
751 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
754 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
756 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
757 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
758 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
759 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
760 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
761 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
762 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
767 Notmuch database upgrade
769 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
770 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
771 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
772 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
773 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
774 released version of Notmuch before now.
776 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
778 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
779 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
780 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
781 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
783 Message header parsing changes
785 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
786 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
787 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
788 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
789 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
790 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
792 Command-Line Interface
793 ----------------------
795 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
797 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
799 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
801 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
803 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
805 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
806 user does not want it.
808 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
810 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
811 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
812 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
813 support formatted output.
815 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
817 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
818 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
819 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
827 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
828 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
829 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
830 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
831 `~/.emacs` with these.
833 Changed format for saved searches
835 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
836 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
837 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
838 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
841 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
842 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
843 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
844 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
846 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
847 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
848 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
850 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
851 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
852 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
853 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
854 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
856 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
858 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
859 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
860 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
862 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
864 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
865 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
866 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
867 message had been unread).
869 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
870 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
871 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
872 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
874 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
875 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
876 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
878 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
879 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
880 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
881 to tags already present.
885 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
886 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
887 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
888 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
889 these differ from each other.
890 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
892 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
894 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
895 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
896 for these Emacs versions.
898 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
900 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
901 newlines before calling notmuch count.
903 Bug fixes for sender identities
905 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
906 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
907 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
909 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
911 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
912 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
913 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
914 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
916 Reply pushes mark before signature
918 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
919 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
920 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
922 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
924 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
925 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
931 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
932 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
934 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
935 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
936 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
937 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
939 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
940 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
941 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
942 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
943 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
945 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
947 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
948 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
950 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
951 =========================
953 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
954 ---------------------------------------
956 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
957 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
958 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
959 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
960 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
961 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
962 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
966 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
967 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
969 Command-Line Interface
970 ----------------------
972 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
974 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
975 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
976 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
977 print for each message.
979 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
980 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
981 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
982 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
984 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
986 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
987 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
988 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
990 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
992 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
993 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
994 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
995 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
997 `notmuch compact` command
999 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1000 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1001 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1002 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1003 move the compacted database into place.
1008 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1010 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1011 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1012 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1013 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1014 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1015 and multiple threads.
1017 Using `notmuch-tree`
1019 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1021 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1022 search, show and tree mode itself)
1024 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1027 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1028 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1030 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1032 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1033 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1034 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1035 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1036 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1037 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1038 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1040 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1042 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1043 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1044 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1045 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1046 thread when the search was performed.
1048 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1050 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1051 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1052 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1054 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1056 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1057 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1060 Built-in help improvements
1062 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1063 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1064 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1066 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1068 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1069 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1070 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1072 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1074 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1075 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1077 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1079 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1080 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1081 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1082 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1084 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1086 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1087 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1088 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1089 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1091 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1093 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1094 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1095 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1097 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1099 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1100 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1101 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1103 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1105 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1106 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1107 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1108 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1109 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1111 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1113 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1114 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1115 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1116 the body part of the message.
1121 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1122 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1123 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1125 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1126 =========================
1128 Command-Line Interface
1129 ----------------------
1131 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1133 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1134 folder and notmuch index.
1136 `notmuch count --batch` option
1138 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1139 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1141 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1143 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1144 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1145 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1148 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1150 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1151 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1152 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1153 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1154 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1157 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1159 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1160 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1162 Top level option to specify configuration file
1164 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1165 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1167 Bash command-line completion
1169 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1170 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1171 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1172 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1173 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1174 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1175 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1176 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1177 bash-completion package.
1179 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1184 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1186 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1187 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1188 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1189 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1190 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1191 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1192 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1193 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1195 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1197 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1198 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1199 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1201 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1203 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1204 previous thread in the search results.
1206 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1208 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1209 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1211 Faster search and show
1213 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1214 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1215 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1216 threads should show faster.
1220 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1221 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1222 in question was now removed from this release.
1227 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1228 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1233 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1235 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1236 ===========================
1241 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1243 Internal test framework changes
1244 -------------------------------
1246 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1247 being unimplemented.
1249 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1250 ===========================
1252 Internal test framework changes
1253 -------------------------------
1255 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1256 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1258 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1259 =========================
1264 Date range search support
1266 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1267 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1268 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1269 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1270 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1273 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1275 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1276 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1277 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1278 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1279 but may be removed in a future release.
1281 Command-Line Interface
1282 ----------------------
1284 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1286 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1287 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1289 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1291 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1292 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1293 officially deprecated.
1295 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1297 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1298 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1299 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1301 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1303 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1304 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1307 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1308 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1309 dump/restore format.
1311 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1313 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1314 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1315 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1317 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1319 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1320 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1321 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1323 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1325 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1326 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1327 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1328 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1333 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1335 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1336 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1337 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1338 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1340 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1342 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1343 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1344 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1345 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1346 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1347 the behavior of this, see
1348 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1349 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1351 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1352 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1353 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1355 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1357 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1358 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1361 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1363 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1364 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1365 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1366 simply displayed in place of the message.
1368 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1370 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1371 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1373 Improved text/calendar content handling
1375 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1376 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1377 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1378 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1380 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1382 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1383 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1384 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1385 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1387 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1389 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1390 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1391 for HTML email containing images.
1393 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1395 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1397 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1399 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1402 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1404 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1405 the point where it was.
1407 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1409 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1410 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1411 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1412 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1413 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1415 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1417 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1418 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1419 thread instead of the message id.
1421 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1422 -----------------------------
1424 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1425 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1426 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1427 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1428 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1429 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1430 further details and installation.
1435 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1437 Internal test framework changes
1438 -------------------------------
1440 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1442 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1443 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1444 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1445 can result in buggy behavior.
1447 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1448 =========================
1453 Maildir tag synchronization
1455 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1456 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1457 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1458 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1459 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1460 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1463 Command-Line Interface
1464 ----------------------
1466 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1467 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1468 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1469 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1470 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1476 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1478 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1480 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1481 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1482 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1484 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1486 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1487 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1488 span multiple lines.
1490 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1492 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1493 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1494 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1495 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1496 inside the result or message.
1498 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1500 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1501 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1503 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1504 user-specified formatting
1506 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1507 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1508 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1509 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1510 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1512 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1513 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1515 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1516 ===========================
1521 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1522 compilation error for this contrib package.
1524 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1525 ===========================
1530 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1532 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1533 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1534 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1535 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1537 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1538 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1541 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1542 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1543 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1544 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1547 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1549 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1552 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1553 =========================
1555 Command-Line Interface
1556 ----------------------
1560 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1561 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1562 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1563 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1565 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1566 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1567 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1568 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1572 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1573 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1575 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1576 tag in your query, for example:
1578 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1580 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1581 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1583 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1584 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1586 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1588 Raw show format changes
1590 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1591 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1592 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1593 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1594 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1595 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1596 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1597 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1599 Listing configuration items
1601 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1607 Changes to tagging interface
1609 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1610 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1611 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1612 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1613 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1614 for more information.
1616 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1617 may need to update in custom configurations.
1619 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1621 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1622 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1623 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1624 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1627 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1628 -----------------------------
1630 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1631 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1632 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1633 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1634 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1635 contrib/ from now on.
1640 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1641 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1643 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1644 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1646 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1647 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1648 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1650 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1651 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1653 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1654 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1655 returning the new database object or directory object.
1662 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1663 compatible with go 1.
1665 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1666 =========================
1668 Command-Line Interface
1669 ----------------------
1673 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1674 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1675 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1676 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1678 Mail store folder/file ignore
1680 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1681 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1682 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1684 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1685 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1687 Unified help and manual pages
1689 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1690 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1693 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1695 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1696 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1704 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1705 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1706 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1707 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1709 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1711 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1712 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1714 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1717 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1718 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1719 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1721 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1723 should be changed to:
1725 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1727 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1729 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1730 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1732 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1734 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1735 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1736 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1737 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1738 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1739 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1743 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1744 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1745 of Mailing List Archives.
1747 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1749 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1750 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1753 Show view archiving key binding changes
1755 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1756 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1757 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1758 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1759 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1762 Support text/calendar MIME type
1764 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1767 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1769 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1770 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1771 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1772 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1774 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1776 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1777 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1778 messages blue by default in the search view.
1782 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1783 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1790 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1793 Python bindings changes
1794 -----------------------
1796 Python 3.2 compatibility
1798 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1800 Added missing unicode conversions
1802 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1803 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1804 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1809 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1811 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1812 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1813 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1814 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1815 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1817 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1818 ===========================
1823 Fix error handling in python bindings
1825 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1826 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1827 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1828 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1830 Quote MML tags in replies
1832 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1833 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1834 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1835 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1836 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1837 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1838 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1839 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1841 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1842 =========================
1844 Command-Line Interface
1845 ----------------------
1849 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1850 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1851 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1852 importing new messages into the database.
1854 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1856 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1857 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1858 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1863 Automatic tag query optimization
1865 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1866 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1867 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1869 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1871 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1872 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1873 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1878 Reduction of memory leaks
1880 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1881 and fixed in this release.
1888 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1889 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1890 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1893 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1895 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1896 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1897 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1900 Improvements in saved search management
1902 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1903 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1904 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1906 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1908 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1909 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1910 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1912 New face for crypto parts headers
1914 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1915 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1916 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1919 Use space as default thousands separator
1921 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1922 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1923 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1925 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1926 buttonized id: links
1928 New function notmuch-show-advance
1930 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1931 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1932 be bound to SPC with:
1934 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1936 Various performance improvements
1941 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1942 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1945 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1946 ===========================
1951 Fix crash in python bindings
1953 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1954 for some, but not all users.
1956 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1957 ===========================
1962 Fix `--help` argument
1964 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1965 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1966 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1968 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1969 =========================
1971 New build and testing features
1972 ------------------------------
1974 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1975 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1976 prerequisites is improved.
1978 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1980 New command-line features
1981 -------------------------
1983 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1985 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1986 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1989 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1991 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1992 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1993 favour of using stdout.
1995 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1997 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1998 limit the number of results shown.
2000 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2002 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2003 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2006 New emacs UI features
2007 ---------------------
2009 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2011 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2012 starting with "tag:".
2014 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2016 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2017 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2019 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2021 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2023 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2025 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2026 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2031 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2033 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2035 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2036 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2037 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2038 requires a database rebuild:
2040 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2041 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2043 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2045 New collection of add-on tools
2046 ------------------------------
2048 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2049 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2050 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2053 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2055 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2056 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2057 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2059 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2060 ========================
2062 New, general features
2063 ---------------------
2065 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2067 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2068 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2069 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2070 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2071 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2078 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2079 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2081 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2085 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2086 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2087 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2090 Python bindings changes
2091 -----------------------
2093 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2095 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2096 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2097 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2098 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2099 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2100 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2102 Ruby bindings changes
2103 ---------------------
2105 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2106 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2107 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2108 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2113 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2115 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2116 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2118 Reply formatting cleanup
2119 ------------------------
2121 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2122 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2124 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2125 ========================
2127 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2129 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2130 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2131 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2132 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2135 Improved Build system portability
2137 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2138 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2139 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2141 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2143 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2145 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2147 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2148 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2149 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2151 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2152 ========================
2154 Vim interface improvements
2155 --------------------------
2157 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2159 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2160 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2161 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2162 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2163 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2165 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2167 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2168 * fix compose temp file name
2170 Python Bindings changes
2171 -----------------------
2173 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2175 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2176 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2178 Build-System improvements
2179 -------------------------
2181 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2183 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2186 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2187 ==========================
2192 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2194 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2195 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2197 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2198 =======================
2200 New, general features
2201 ---------------------
2203 Folder-based searching
2205 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2206 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2207 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2211 For example, one might use things such as:
2217 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2218 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2220 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2221 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2222 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2223 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2225 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2226 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2227 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2230 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2231 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2233 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2235 Support for PGP/MIME
2237 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2238 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2239 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2241 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2243 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2244 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2246 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2247 notmuch will receive these tags.
2249 New command-line features
2250 -------------------------
2252 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2254 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2255 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2257 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2259 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2260 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2261 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2263 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2265 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2266 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2267 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2268 which parts a signature part applies).
2270 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2272 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2273 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2274 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2275 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2276 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2279 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2281 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2282 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2283 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2284 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2285 by translating it internally to the new call.
2287 Performance improvements
2288 ------------------------
2290 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2292 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2293 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2294 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2296 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2297 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2299 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2301 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2302 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2303 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2305 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2306 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2307 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2308 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2310 Faster initial indexing
2312 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2313 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2314 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2316 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2318 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2319 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2320 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2321 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2323 New emacs-interface features
2324 ----------------------------
2326 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2328 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2329 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2330 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2331 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2332 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2333 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2335 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2337 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2338 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2339 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2340 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2342 User-selectable From address
2344 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2345 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2346 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2347 will prompt for the from address to use.
2349 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2350 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2351 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2353 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2354 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2355 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2358 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2360 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2361 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2363 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2365 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2367 ----- Original Message -----
2369 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2370 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2371 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2372 citations work much like conventional citations.
2374 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2376 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2377 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2378 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2379 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2380 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2382 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2383 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2385 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2387 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2388 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2389 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2391 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2393 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2394 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2395 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2396 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2397 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2399 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2401 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2404 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2406 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2408 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2410 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2413 Vim interface improvements
2414 --------------------------
2416 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2418 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2419 * Implementing archive in show view
2420 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2421 * Add delete commands
2424 Bindings improvements
2425 ---------------------
2427 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2429 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2430 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2432 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2434 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2438 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2439 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2440 `list(Messages)` works now
2441 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2443 These allow, for example:
2445 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2447 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2449 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2455 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2457 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2460 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2462 New build-system features
2463 -------------------------
2465 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2467 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2468 the configure script from some other directory:
2475 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2477 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2478 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2479 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2480 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2481 manual invocation of configure.
2483 New test-suite feature
2484 ----------------------
2486 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2488 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2489 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2490 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2491 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2492 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2495 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2497 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2498 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2499 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2500 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2501 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2502 are updated to take advantage of this.
2504 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2506 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2507 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2508 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2509 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2515 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2517 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2518 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2519 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2521 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2523 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2525 to:user@elsewhere.com
2527 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2529 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2531 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2533 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2534 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2535 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2538 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2539 from the Received headers in some cases
2541 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2542 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2544 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2546 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2548 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2550 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2551 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2552 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2554 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2555 -------------------------
2557 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2559 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2560 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2561 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2563 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2565 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2566 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2567 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2570 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2572 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2573 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2574 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2575 fixed to avoid this bug.
2577 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2579 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2580 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2582 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2583 ========================
2585 New, general features
2586 ---------------------
2588 Maildir-flag synchronization
2590 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2591 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2600 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2602 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2603 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2604 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2605 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2607 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2608 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2609 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2610 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2613 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2615 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2616 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2617 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2619 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2620 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2622 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2623 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2625 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2626 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2627 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2629 New library features
2630 --------------------
2632 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2634 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2635 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2636 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2637 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2639 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2640 message with the new function:
2642 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2644 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2645 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2646 over all available filenames for a given message.
2648 New command-line features
2649 -------------------------
2651 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2653 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2654 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2655 access to the mail store itself.
2657 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2658 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2659 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2660 name of a script containing:
2662 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2664 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2665 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2671 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2673 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2675 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2677 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2678 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2679 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2680 now produces nothing).
2682 Emacs interface improvements
2683 ----------------------------
2685 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2687 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2689 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2691 Display current thread subject in a header line
2693 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2695 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2697 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2698 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2699 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2700 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2701 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2702 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2703 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2705 Vim interface improvements
2706 --------------------------
2708 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2710 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2711 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2717 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2719 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2720 ========================
2722 New command-line features
2723 -------------------------
2725 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2727 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2728 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2729 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2731 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2732 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2733 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2734 scripts. For example:
2736 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2737 <operations-on> "$file"
2740 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2742 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2743 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2744 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2745 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2746 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2747 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2749 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2751 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2752 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2753 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2754 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2756 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2758 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2759 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2760 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2761 default rather than Bcc.
2763 New library features
2764 --------------------
2766 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2768 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2769 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2774 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2776 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2777 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2778 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2779 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2780 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2781 notmuch customize interface.
2783 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2785 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2786 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2787 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2788 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2790 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2792 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2793 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2794 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2795 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2797 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2799 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2800 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2801 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2802 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2803 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2804 notmuch customize interface.
2806 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2808 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2809 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2810 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2811 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2812 notmuch customize interface.
2814 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2816 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2817 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2818 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2819 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2822 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2824 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2825 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2826 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2829 New build-system features
2830 -------------------------
2832 Various portability fixes have been applied
2834 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2835 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2836 more portable than ever before.
2838 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2840 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2841 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2842 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2844 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2845 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2846 automatically run ldconfig.
2848 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2849 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2850 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2852 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2853 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2854 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2855 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2857 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2859 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2860 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2861 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2862 used in the resulting Makefile.
2864 New test-suite features
2865 -----------------------
2867 New modularization of test suite
2869 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2870 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2871 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2872 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2873 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2874 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2875 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2876 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2878 New testing of emacs interface
2880 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2881 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2882 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2883 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2884 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2885 database via the FCC setting.
2890 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2892 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2893 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2894 persistent error of the form:
2896 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2898 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2899 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2901 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2903 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2904 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2905 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2907 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2909 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2910 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2911 parsing the notmuch results).
2913 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2915 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2918 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2919 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2920 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2925 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2927 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2928 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2929 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2930 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2931 the emacs interface.
2933 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2935 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2936 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2937 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2939 Python-binding fixes
2940 --------------------
2942 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2944 Debian-specific fixes
2945 ---------------------
2947 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2949 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2950 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2951 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2954 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2955 ==========================
2960 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2962 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2963 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2964 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2965 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2967 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2969 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2970 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2971 want notmuch to crash.
2976 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2978 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2979 directory does not exist
2984 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2986 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2987 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2989 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2990 ========================
2992 New command-line features
2993 -------------------------
2995 User-configurable tags for new messages
2997 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2998 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2999 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3000 to specify this value.
3002 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3004 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3005 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3006 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3008 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3010 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3011 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3013 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3015 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3016 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3017 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3018 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3019 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3022 Indication of author names that match a search
3024 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3025 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3026 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3027 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3028 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3029 messages in the thread are listed first.
3031 New: Python bindings
3032 --------------------
3034 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3035 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3036 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3037 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3039 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3040 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3041 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3044 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3045 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3046 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3048 Emacs interface improvements
3049 ----------------------------
3051 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3053 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3054 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3055 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3056 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3057 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3058 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3059 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3060 but without any of the disadvantages).
3062 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3063 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3064 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3067 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3068 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3069 instead running something like:
3071 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3073 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3074 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3075 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3078 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3080 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3081 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3082 tweaked by the user.
3084 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3085 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3086 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3089 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3090 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3091 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3094 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3096 This support currently relies on an external program,
3097 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3098 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3099 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3100 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3101 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3104 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3105 notmuch) is available via:
3107 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3109 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3110 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3111 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3113 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3115 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3116 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3117 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3118 making this automatic in a future release.
3120 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3122 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3123 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3124 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3125 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3126 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3127 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3130 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3132 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3133 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3134 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3136 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3138 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3139 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3140 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3142 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3143 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3144 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3145 other representation.
3147 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3148 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3151 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3153 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3154 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3155 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3157 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3158 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3159 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3161 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3163 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3164 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3165 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3166 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3167 to display the search result.
3169 More flexible handling of header visibility
3171 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3172 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3173 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3174 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3175 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3176 with the 'h' keybinding.
3178 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3179 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3180 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3182 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3184 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3186 Customizable formatting of search results
3188 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3189 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3190 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3192 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3194 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3196 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3201 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3203 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3204 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3205 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3206 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3212 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3214 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3215 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3217 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3219 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3220 accept are now all accepted.
3225 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3227 Better display of output from failed tests
3229 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3230 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3232 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3233 ========================
3235 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3236 detailed release notes this time!
3238 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3239 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3241 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3242 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3243 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3244 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3251 Better guessing of From: header
3253 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3254 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3255 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3256 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3257 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3260 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3262 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3263 guaranteed to match all messages.
3265 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3267 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3268 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3269 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3270 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3271 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3274 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3277 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3278 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3279 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3280 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3285 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3287 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3288 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3289 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3290 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3292 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3294 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3296 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3297 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3298 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3300 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3302 Previously, the user might see:
3304 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3308 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3310 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3311 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3312 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3313 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3315 Emacs client features
3316 ---------------------
3318 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3320 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3321 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3322 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3323 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3324 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3326 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3329 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3330 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3331 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3332 search with the '*' binding.
3334 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3336 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3337 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3340 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3342 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3343 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3344 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3346 Build-system features
3347 ---------------------
3349 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3351 Add support to configure for many standard options
3353 We include actual support for:
3355 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3357 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3359 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3360 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3362 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3363 separate "make install-emacs"
3365 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3367 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3368 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3369 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3371 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3374 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3375 ========================
3377 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3379 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3380 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3382 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3383 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3384 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3385 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3386 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3387 tags from messages in a thread.
3394 indent-tabs-mode: nil