1 Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
2 =========================
7 Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
8 allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
9 appropropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
11 Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
12 bracketed sub-expressions.
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
18 input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
19 calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
21 Python (CFFI) Bindings
22 ----------------------
24 Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
25 matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
31 Reorganize documention for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
37 Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
38 "notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
44 Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
46 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
47 -----------------------------
49 The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
50 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
51 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
54 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
55 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
58 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
59 =========================
64 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
66 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
68 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
69 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
71 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
73 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
78 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
81 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
83 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
84 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
89 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
91 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
94 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
95 third party completion frameworks.
97 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
99 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
101 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
102 signed and/or encrypted messages.
104 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
107 Make header line in show buffers optional.
109 Add customizable names for search buffers.
114 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
116 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
117 installed version of notmuch.
119 Ignore more configure options.
124 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
127 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
132 Add `matched` property to message objects.
134 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
135 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
141 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
143 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
144 ===========================
149 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
150 xapian/ subdirectory.
152 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
153 --------------------------
155 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
156 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
158 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
159 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
161 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
164 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
165 ===========================
170 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
171 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
172 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
174 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
175 --------------------------
177 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
178 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
180 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
181 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
182 and database location options as the library does.
184 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
186 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
187 ===========================
192 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
193 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
194 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
195 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
196 status returns for the same 3 functions.
198 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
199 =========================
204 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
205 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
206 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
207 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
208 s-expression query support.
213 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
218 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
220 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
222 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
224 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
226 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
227 ===========================
232 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
234 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
235 ===========================
240 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
241 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
244 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
245 =========================
250 Correct documentation about transactions.
252 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
253 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
255 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
260 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
266 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
267 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
268 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
270 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
272 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
274 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
276 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
278 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
280 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
283 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
288 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
289 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
290 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
291 split, following an old library API change.
296 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
301 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
303 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
305 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
306 ===========================
311 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
314 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
317 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
318 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
323 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
325 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
326 ===========================
331 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
337 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
342 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
347 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
352 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
353 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
355 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
356 ===========================
361 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
362 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
363 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
365 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
366 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
367 database in a pre-new hook.
369 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
370 default worked only in "notmuch config".
375 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
376 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
378 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
379 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
380 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
382 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
383 =========================
388 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
389 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
390 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
391 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
392 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
393 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
394 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
395 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
396 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
397 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
398 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
403 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
404 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
406 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
407 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
408 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
409 - `notmuch_config_get`
411 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
412 now exposed (and generalized).
414 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
415 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
416 session has been fixed.
418 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
419 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
424 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
425 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
427 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
428 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
433 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
434 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
435 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
436 when prompting for senders.
438 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
439 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
442 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
444 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
446 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
447 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
448 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
449 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
450 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
451 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
452 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
454 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
455 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
457 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
458 you should change it to:
459 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
461 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
462 ===========================
467 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
472 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
474 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
475 ===========================
480 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
485 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
490 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
492 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
493 ===========================
498 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
499 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
501 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
502 ===========================
507 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
512 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
513 with a C++ header for some compilers.
515 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
517 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
518 =========================
523 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
524 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
525 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
527 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
529 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
531 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
533 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
536 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
538 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
539 search, show and tree mode)
541 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
544 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
547 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
548 always be newest first.
553 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
554 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
555 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
561 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
562 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
563 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
564 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
566 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
567 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
568 non-status providing versions.
570 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
571 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
573 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
574 promised in the documentation.
579 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
580 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
581 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
586 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
587 development version).
592 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
597 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
599 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
600 =========================
605 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
606 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
607 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
610 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
616 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
617 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
618 notmuch-properties(7)).
623 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
624 has protected headers (see
625 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
626 notmuch-properties(7)).
631 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
633 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
634 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
640 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
643 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
644 ===========================
649 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
651 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
656 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
658 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
659 ===========================
664 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
665 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
667 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
668 ===========================
673 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
675 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
676 =========================
681 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
682 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
685 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
686 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
687 the set of headers to be indexed.
689 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
692 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
693 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
694 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
697 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
698 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
699 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
701 Command Line Interface
702 ----------------------
704 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
707 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
709 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
710 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
711 more details about what is included there. This status includes
712 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
717 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
718 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
720 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
722 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
724 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
726 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
728 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
731 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
733 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
734 and may be removed in a future release.
736 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
742 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
744 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
745 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
750 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
751 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
752 cryptography support.
757 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
758 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
759 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
761 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
762 ===========================
764 Command line interface
765 ----------------------
767 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
768 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
770 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
771 ===========================
776 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
777 by message properties.
782 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
784 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
785 ===========================
790 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
795 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
796 now needed to build this documentation.
798 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
799 ===========================
804 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
805 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
807 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
808 =========================
815 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
816 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
817 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
818 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
819 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
822 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
824 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
825 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
826 correct encoding for such messages.
828 Command Line Interface
829 ----------------------
831 Support relative database paths
833 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
834 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
835 to $HOME of the invoking user.
840 Improve stderr handling
842 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
843 needed on e.g. macOS.
845 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
847 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
852 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
853 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
859 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
860 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
866 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
867 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
870 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
871 =========================
876 Add support for thread:{} queries
878 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
879 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
880 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
882 Command Line Interface
883 ----------------------
885 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
887 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
889 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
891 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
892 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
893 does not have to be available during message receipt.
898 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
904 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
905 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
907 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
908 ===========================
913 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
915 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
916 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
917 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
919 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
921 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
922 related abort in `notmuch show`.
924 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
925 ===========================
930 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
931 better late than never.
934 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
935 =========================
937 Command Line Interface
938 ----------------------
940 Support for re-indexing existing messages
942 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
943 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
944 change the way specific messages are indexed.
946 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
947 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
948 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
950 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
952 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
954 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
956 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
957 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
958 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
959 the setting of `new.tags`.
961 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
963 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
965 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
967 This inserts into the top level folder.
969 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
971 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
973 New option --output=address for notmuch address
975 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
977 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
979 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
980 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
981 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
983 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
988 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
990 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
991 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
992 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
993 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
994 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
995 config set index.decrypt true".
997 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
998 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
999 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
1000 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
1001 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
1002 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
1003 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
1004 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
1006 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
1007 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
1008 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
1009 this feature without considering the security of your index.
1014 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
1016 Use make-process when available
1018 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
1019 notmuch command without using temporary files.
1024 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
1026 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
1027 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
1028 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
1029 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
1031 New functions to count files
1033 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
1034 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
1036 New function to remove properties
1038 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
1039 drop all properties with a common pattern:
1040 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1042 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1044 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1045 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1046 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1048 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1050 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1051 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1052 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1053 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1054 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1061 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1062 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1063 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1069 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1071 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1072 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1074 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1076 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1078 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1080 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1085 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1086 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1088 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1089 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1090 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1091 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1092 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1093 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1098 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1100 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1101 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1102 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1103 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1105 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1106 ===========================
1111 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1112 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1115 Command Line Interface
1116 ----------------------
1118 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1119 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1122 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1123 ===========================
1125 Command Line Interface
1126 ----------------------
1128 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1129 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1134 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1137 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1138 ===========================
1143 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1146 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1147 =========================
1152 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1154 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1156 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1158 Command Line Interface
1159 ----------------------
1161 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1163 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1168 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1170 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1171 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1174 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1179 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1181 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1182 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1184 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1186 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1187 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1190 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1192 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1194 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1196 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1197 ===========================
1199 Command Line Interface
1200 ----------------------
1202 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1207 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1209 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1210 ===========================
1215 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1217 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1218 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1221 Command Line Interface
1222 ----------------------
1224 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1226 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1228 Fix bug in dump header
1230 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1231 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1232 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1237 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1239 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1240 =========================
1245 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1247 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1250 Command Line Interface
1251 ----------------------
1253 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1255 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1256 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1257 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1259 New default output format to 3
1261 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1262 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1263 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1264 default format changes.
1269 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1271 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1272 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1273 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1274 or tree view to resume.
1276 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1277 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1278 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1281 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1282 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1286 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1287 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1288 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1289 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1290 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1294 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1295 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1296 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1297 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1298 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1299 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1303 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1304 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1306 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1308 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1309 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1310 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1311 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1312 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1313 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1314 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1315 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1318 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1320 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1321 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1322 only tagged the current thread.)
1324 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1326 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1327 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1328 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1330 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1332 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1333 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1334 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1335 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1336 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1337 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1338 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1340 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1342 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1343 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1344 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1349 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1351 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1354 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1356 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1359 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1360 ===========================
1365 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1367 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1368 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1369 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1372 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1373 ===========================
1375 Command Line Interface
1376 ----------------------
1378 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1383 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1385 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1386 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1387 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1389 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1390 ===========================
1395 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1396 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1398 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1399 ===========================
1401 Command Line Interface
1402 ----------------------
1404 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1406 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1407 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1408 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1413 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1415 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1416 ===========================
1418 Command Line Interface
1419 ----------------------
1421 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1426 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1428 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1429 ===========================
1434 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1436 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1437 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1438 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1440 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1442 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1444 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1445 ===========================
1450 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1452 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1457 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1459 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1460 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1461 the original colours.
1463 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1464 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1466 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1468 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1469 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1470 bug, and hence the test.
1472 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1473 =========================
1475 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1476 ---------------------
1478 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1480 Support for single argument date: queries
1482 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1484 Support for blocking opens
1486 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1487 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1489 Support for named queries
1491 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1492 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1493 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1498 Message property API
1500 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1501 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1502 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1503 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1505 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1507 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1512 Support for compile time options
1514 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1515 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1518 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1520 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1521 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1522 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1523 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1524 scripts to ignore it.
1529 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1531 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1532 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1533 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1535 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1536 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1537 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1538 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1539 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1540 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1541 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1543 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1544 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1547 Make internal address completion customizable
1549 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1550 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1551 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1552 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1555 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1557 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1558 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1559 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1560 completion for the current buffer.
1562 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1563 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1564 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1568 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1569 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1570 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1571 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1572 will be added instead.
1574 Face customization is easier
1576 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1577 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1578 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1579 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1581 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1586 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1591 Go bindings moved to contrib
1593 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1595 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1597 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1598 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1600 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1602 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1603 ===========================
1610 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1611 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1613 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1615 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1617 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1618 ===========================
1623 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1625 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1630 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1635 Use `env` to locate perl.
1640 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1642 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1644 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1646 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1648 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1649 =========================
1656 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1657 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1659 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1661 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1662 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1663 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1668 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1669 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1670 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1672 Command Line Interface
1673 ----------------------
1675 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1677 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1682 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1687 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1689 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1690 parts are now included in replies.
1692 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1693 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1694 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1695 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1697 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1699 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1701 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1703 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1704 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1705 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1706 forwards only the current message.
1708 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1710 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1711 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1712 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1713 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1714 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1715 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1716 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1717 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1720 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1721 longer generate empty buffers
1723 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1724 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1725 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1726 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1727 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1729 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1731 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1734 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1736 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1739 Address completion improvements
1741 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1742 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1743 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1744 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1745 interactive address completion.
1747 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1749 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1750 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1751 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1756 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1757 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1758 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1764 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1765 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1766 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1767 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1768 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1769 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1771 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1772 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1773 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1774 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1775 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1776 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1778 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1779 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1781 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1782 =========================
1787 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1790 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1792 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1793 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1794 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1796 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1797 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1799 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1800 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1801 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1803 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1805 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1806 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1807 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1808 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1809 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1810 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1815 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1816 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1819 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1820 option to configure.
1822 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1824 Command Line Interface
1825 ----------------------
1827 Database revision tracking
1829 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1830 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1831 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1832 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1834 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1836 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1837 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1838 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1839 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1840 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1841 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1842 manual page for further information.
1847 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1849 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1850 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1852 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1854 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1855 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1856 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1858 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1860 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1862 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1863 customization as well.
1865 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1867 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1869 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1871 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1873 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1874 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1875 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1876 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1878 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1880 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1881 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1882 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1883 this variable to 10000.
1888 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1889 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1891 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1893 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1894 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1895 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1896 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1897 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1898 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1899 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1900 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1901 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1904 Database revision tracking
1906 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1907 query parser and the new function
1908 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1910 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1912 Deprecated functions
1914 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1915 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1916 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1917 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1922 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1924 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1925 ===========================
1930 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1932 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1933 ===========================
1938 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1940 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1941 =========================
1943 Command-Line Interface
1944 ----------------------
1946 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1948 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1949 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1950 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1952 Path to gpg is now configurable
1954 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1955 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1960 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1962 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1967 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1972 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1977 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1979 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1980 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1982 New error logging facility
1984 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1985 output formerly printed to stderr.
1987 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1989 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1991 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1993 Fix for rounding of seconds
1998 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
2000 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
2001 documentation has been removed.
2003 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
2005 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
2006 some material from the relicensed wiki.
2011 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
2012 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
2013 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
2018 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
2019 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
2020 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
2021 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
2022 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
2023 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
2026 git checkout config origin/config
2028 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
2030 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2031 =========================
2036 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
2037 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
2038 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
2039 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
2040 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
2041 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2042 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2044 Command-Line Interface
2045 ----------------------
2047 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2049 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2050 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2051 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2052 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2053 script callers should still check the return value.
2055 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2057 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2058 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2059 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2060 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2061 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2062 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2063 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2065 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2067 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2068 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2069 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2071 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2073 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2074 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2075 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2076 currently unmaintained.
2078 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2080 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2081 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2082 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2083 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2085 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2087 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2088 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2089 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2090 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2091 count of duplicate addresses.
2096 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2098 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2099 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2100 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2103 Improved handling of the unread tag
2105 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2106 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2107 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2108 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2109 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2110 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2111 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2113 Expanded default saved search settings
2115 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2116 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2118 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2120 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2121 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2122 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2124 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2126 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2127 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2128 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2129 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2130 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2131 the variable for details.
2136 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2138 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2139 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2140 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2141 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2143 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2145 Previously, library users were required to call
2146 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2147 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2148 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2149 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2150 too out of date for that API.
2152 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2154 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2155 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2156 atomic section will be aborted.
2158 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2159 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2161 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2163 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2164 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2165 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2166 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2167 messages into the same thread.
2172 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2173 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2174 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2175 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2176 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2177 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2182 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2183 from the config file. Use something like:
2187 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2188 "footer": "</body></html>",
2197 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2202 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2203 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2204 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2206 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2207 ===========================
2212 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2214 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2216 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2218 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2219 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2221 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2223 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2226 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2227 ===========================
2229 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2234 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2236 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2238 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2240 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2242 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2248 Use --quick when starting emacs
2250 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2252 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2254 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2256 Command-Line Interface
2257 ----------------------
2259 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2260 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2265 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2267 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2268 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2270 Fix for phrase indexing
2272 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2273 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2274 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2279 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2281 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2282 unintentionally removed.
2284 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2285 =========================
2290 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2291 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2292 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2293 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2294 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2295 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2296 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2297 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2298 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2304 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2306 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2307 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2308 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2309 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2310 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2311 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2312 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2313 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2315 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2317 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2318 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2319 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2320 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2323 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2325 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2326 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2327 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2328 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2329 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2330 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2331 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2336 Notmuch database upgrade
2338 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2339 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2340 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2341 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2342 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2343 released version of Notmuch before now.
2345 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2347 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2348 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2349 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2350 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2352 Message header parsing changes
2354 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2355 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2356 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2357 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2358 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2359 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2361 Command-Line Interface
2362 ----------------------
2364 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2366 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2368 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2370 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2372 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2374 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2375 user does not want it.
2377 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2379 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2380 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2381 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2382 support formatted output.
2384 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2386 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2387 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2388 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2396 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2397 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2398 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2399 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2400 `~/.emacs` with these.
2402 Changed format for saved searches
2404 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2405 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2406 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2407 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2410 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2411 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2412 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2413 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2415 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2416 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2417 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2419 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2420 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2421 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2422 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2423 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2425 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2427 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2428 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2429 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2431 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2433 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2434 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2435 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2436 message had been unread).
2438 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2439 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2440 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2441 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2443 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2444 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2445 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2447 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2448 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2449 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2450 to tags already present.
2454 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2455 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2456 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2457 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2458 these differ from each other.
2459 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2461 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2463 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2464 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2465 for these Emacs versions.
2467 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2469 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2470 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2472 Bug fixes for sender identities
2474 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2475 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2476 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2478 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2480 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2481 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2482 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2483 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2485 Reply pushes mark before signature
2487 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2488 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2489 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2491 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2493 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2494 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2500 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2501 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2503 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2504 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2505 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2506 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2508 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2509 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2510 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2511 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2512 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2514 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2516 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2517 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2519 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2520 =========================
2522 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2523 ---------------------------------------
2525 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2526 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2527 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2528 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2529 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2530 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2531 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2535 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2536 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2538 Command-Line Interface
2539 ----------------------
2541 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2543 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2544 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2545 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2546 print for each message.
2548 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2549 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2550 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2551 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2553 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2555 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2556 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2557 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2559 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2561 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2562 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2563 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2564 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2566 `notmuch compact` command
2568 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2569 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2570 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2571 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2572 move the compacted database into place.
2577 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2579 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2580 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2581 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2582 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2583 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2584 and multiple threads.
2586 Using `notmuch-tree`
2588 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2590 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2591 search, show and tree mode itself)
2593 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2596 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2597 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2599 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2601 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2602 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2603 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2604 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2605 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2606 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2607 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2609 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2611 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2612 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2613 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2614 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2615 thread when the search was performed.
2617 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2619 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2620 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2621 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2623 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2625 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2626 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2629 Built-in help improvements
2631 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2632 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2633 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2635 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2637 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2638 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2639 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2641 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2643 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2644 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2646 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2648 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2649 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2650 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2651 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2653 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2655 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2656 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2657 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2658 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2660 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2662 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2663 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2664 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2666 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2668 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2669 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2670 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2672 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2674 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2675 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2676 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2677 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2678 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2680 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2682 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2683 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2684 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2685 the body part of the message.
2690 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2691 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2692 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2694 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2695 =========================
2697 Command-Line Interface
2698 ----------------------
2700 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2702 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2703 folder and notmuch index.
2705 `notmuch count --batch` option
2707 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2708 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2710 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2712 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2713 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2714 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2717 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2719 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2720 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2721 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2722 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2723 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2726 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2728 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2729 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2731 Top level option to specify configuration file
2733 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2734 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2736 Bash command-line completion
2738 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2739 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2740 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2741 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2742 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2743 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2744 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2745 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2746 bash-completion package.
2748 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2753 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2755 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2756 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2757 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2758 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2759 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2760 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2761 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2762 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2764 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2766 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2767 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2768 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2770 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2772 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2773 previous thread in the search results.
2775 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2777 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2778 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2780 Faster search and show
2782 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2783 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2784 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2785 threads should show faster.
2789 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2790 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2791 in question was now removed from this release.
2796 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2797 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2802 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2804 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2805 ===========================
2810 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2812 Internal test framework changes
2813 -------------------------------
2815 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2816 being unimplemented.
2818 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2819 ===========================
2821 Internal test framework changes
2822 -------------------------------
2824 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2825 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2827 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2828 =========================
2833 Date range search support
2835 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2836 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2837 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2838 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2839 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2842 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2844 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2845 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2846 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2847 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2848 but may be removed in a future release.
2850 Command-Line Interface
2851 ----------------------
2853 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2855 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2856 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2858 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2860 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2861 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2862 officially deprecated.
2864 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2866 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2867 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2868 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2870 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2872 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2873 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2876 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2877 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2878 dump/restore format.
2880 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2882 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2883 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2884 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2886 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2888 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2889 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2890 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2892 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2894 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2895 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2896 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2897 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2902 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2904 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2905 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2906 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2907 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2909 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2911 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2912 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2913 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2914 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2915 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2916 the behavior of this, see
2917 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2918 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2920 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2921 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2922 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2924 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2926 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2927 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2930 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2932 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2933 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2934 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2935 simply displayed in place of the message.
2937 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2939 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2940 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2942 Improved text/calendar content handling
2944 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2945 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2946 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2947 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2949 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2951 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2952 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2953 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2954 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2956 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2958 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2959 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2960 for HTML email containing images.
2962 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2964 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2966 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2968 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2971 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2973 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2974 the point where it was.
2976 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2978 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2979 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2980 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2981 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2982 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2984 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2986 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2987 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2988 thread instead of the message id.
2990 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2991 -----------------------------
2993 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2994 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2995 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2996 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2997 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2998 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2999 further details and installation.
3004 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
3006 Internal test framework changes
3007 -------------------------------
3009 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
3011 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
3012 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
3013 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
3014 can result in buggy behavior.
3016 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
3017 =========================
3022 Maildir tag synchronization
3024 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
3025 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
3026 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
3027 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
3028 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
3029 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
3032 Command-Line Interface
3033 ----------------------
3035 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
3036 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
3037 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
3038 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
3039 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3045 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3047 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3049 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3050 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3051 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3053 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3055 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3056 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3057 span multiple lines.
3059 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3061 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3062 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3063 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3064 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3065 inside the result or message.
3067 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3069 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3070 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3072 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3073 user-specified formatting
3075 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3076 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3077 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3078 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3079 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3081 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3082 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3084 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3085 ===========================
3090 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3091 compilation error for this contrib package.
3093 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3094 ===========================
3099 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3101 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3102 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3103 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3104 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3106 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3107 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3110 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3111 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3112 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3113 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3116 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3118 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3121 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3122 =========================
3124 Command-Line Interface
3125 ----------------------
3129 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3130 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3131 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3132 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3134 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3135 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3136 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3137 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3141 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3142 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3144 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3145 tag in your query, for example:
3147 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3149 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3150 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3152 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3153 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3155 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3157 Raw show format changes
3159 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3160 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3161 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3162 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3163 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3164 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3165 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3166 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3168 Listing configuration items
3170 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3176 Changes to tagging interface
3178 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3179 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3180 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3181 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3182 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3183 for more information.
3185 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3186 may need to update in custom configurations.
3188 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3190 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3191 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3192 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3193 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3196 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3197 -----------------------------
3199 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3200 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3201 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3202 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3203 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3204 contrib/ from now on.
3209 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3210 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3212 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3213 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3215 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3216 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3217 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3219 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3220 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3222 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3223 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3224 returning the new database object or directory object.
3231 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3232 compatible with go 1.
3234 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3235 =========================
3237 Command-Line Interface
3238 ----------------------
3242 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3243 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3244 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3245 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3247 Mail store folder/file ignore
3249 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3250 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3251 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3253 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3254 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3256 Unified help and manual pages
3258 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3259 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3262 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3264 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3265 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3273 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3274 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3275 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3276 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3278 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3280 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3281 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3283 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3286 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3287 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3288 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3290 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3292 should be changed to:
3294 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3296 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3298 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3299 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3301 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3303 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3304 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3305 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3306 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3307 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3308 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3312 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3313 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3314 of Mailing List Archives.
3316 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3318 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3319 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3322 Show view archiving key binding changes
3324 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3325 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3326 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3327 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3328 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3331 Support text/calendar MIME type
3333 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3336 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3338 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3339 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3340 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3341 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3343 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3345 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3346 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3347 messages blue by default in the search view.
3351 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3352 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3359 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3362 Python bindings changes
3363 -----------------------
3365 Python 3.2 compatibility
3367 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3369 Added missing unicode conversions
3371 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3372 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3373 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3378 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3380 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3381 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3382 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3383 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3384 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3386 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3387 ===========================
3392 Fix error handling in python bindings
3394 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3395 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3396 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3397 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3399 Quote MML tags in replies
3401 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3402 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3403 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3404 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3405 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3406 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3407 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3408 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3410 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3411 =========================
3413 Command-Line Interface
3414 ----------------------
3418 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3419 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3420 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3421 importing new messages into the database.
3423 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3425 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3426 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3427 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3432 Automatic tag query optimization
3434 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3435 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3436 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3438 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3440 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3441 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3442 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3447 Reduction of memory leaks
3449 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3450 and fixed in this release.
3457 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3458 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3459 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3462 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3464 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3465 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3466 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3469 Improvements in saved search management
3471 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3472 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3473 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3475 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3477 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3478 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3479 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3481 New face for crypto parts headers
3483 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3484 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3485 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3488 Use space as default thousands separator
3490 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3491 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3492 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3494 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3495 buttonized id: links
3497 New function notmuch-show-advance
3499 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3500 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3501 be bound to SPC with:
3503 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3505 Various performance improvements
3510 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3511 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3514 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3515 ===========================
3520 Fix crash in python bindings
3522 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3523 for some, but not all users.
3525 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3526 ===========================
3531 Fix `--help` argument
3533 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3534 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3535 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3537 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3538 =========================
3540 New build and testing features
3541 ------------------------------
3543 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3544 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3545 prerequisites is improved.
3547 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3549 New command-line features
3550 -------------------------
3552 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3554 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3555 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3558 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3560 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3561 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3562 favour of using stdout.
3564 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3566 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3567 limit the number of results shown.
3569 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3571 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3572 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3575 New emacs UI features
3576 ---------------------
3578 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3580 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3581 starting with "tag:".
3583 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3585 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3586 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3588 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3590 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3592 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3594 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3595 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3600 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3602 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3604 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3605 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3606 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3607 requires a database rebuild:
3609 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3610 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3612 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3614 New collection of add-on tools
3615 ------------------------------
3617 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3618 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3619 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3622 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3624 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3625 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3626 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3628 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3629 ========================
3631 New, general features
3632 ---------------------
3634 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3636 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3637 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3638 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3639 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3640 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3647 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3648 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3650 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3654 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3655 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3656 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3659 Python bindings changes
3660 -----------------------
3662 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3664 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3665 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3666 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3667 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3668 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3669 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3671 Ruby bindings changes
3672 ---------------------
3674 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3675 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3676 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3677 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3682 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3684 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3685 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3687 Reply formatting cleanup
3688 ------------------------
3690 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3691 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3693 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3694 ========================
3696 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3698 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3699 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3700 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3701 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3704 Improved Build system portability
3706 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3707 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3708 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3710 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3712 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3714 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3716 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3717 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3718 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3720 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3721 ========================
3723 Vim interface improvements
3724 --------------------------
3726 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3728 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3729 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3730 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3731 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3732 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3734 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3736 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3737 * fix compose temp file name
3739 Python Bindings changes
3740 -----------------------
3742 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3744 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3745 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3747 Build-System improvements
3748 -------------------------
3750 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3752 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3755 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3756 ==========================
3761 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3763 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3764 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3766 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3767 =======================
3769 New, general features
3770 ---------------------
3772 Folder-based searching
3774 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3775 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3776 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3780 For example, one might use things such as:
3786 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3787 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3789 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3790 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3791 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3792 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3794 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3795 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3796 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3799 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3800 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3802 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3804 Support for PGP/MIME
3806 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3807 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3808 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3810 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3812 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3813 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3815 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3816 notmuch will receive these tags.
3818 New command-line features
3819 -------------------------
3821 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3823 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3824 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3826 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3828 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3829 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3830 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3832 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3834 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3835 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3836 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3837 which parts a signature part applies).
3839 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3841 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3842 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3843 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3844 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3845 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3848 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3850 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3851 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3852 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3853 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3854 by translating it internally to the new call.
3856 Performance improvements
3857 ------------------------
3859 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3861 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3862 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3863 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3865 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3866 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3868 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3870 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3871 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3872 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3874 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3875 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3876 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3877 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3879 Faster initial indexing
3881 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3882 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3883 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3885 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3887 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3888 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3889 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3890 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3892 New emacs-interface features
3893 ----------------------------
3895 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3897 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3898 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3899 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3900 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3901 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3902 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3904 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3906 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3907 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3908 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3909 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3911 User-selectable From address
3913 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3914 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3915 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3916 will prompt for the from address to use.
3918 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3919 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3920 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3922 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3923 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3924 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3927 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3929 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3930 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3932 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3934 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3936 ----- Original Message -----
3938 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3939 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3940 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3941 citations work much like conventional citations.
3943 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3945 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3946 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3947 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3948 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3949 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3951 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3952 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3954 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3956 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3957 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3958 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3960 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3962 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3963 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3964 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3965 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3966 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3968 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3970 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3973 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3975 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3977 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3979 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3982 Vim interface improvements
3983 --------------------------
3985 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3987 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3988 * Implementing archive in show view
3989 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3990 * Add delete commands
3993 Bindings improvements
3994 ---------------------
3996 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3998 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3999 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
4001 Python bindings have been updated and extended
4003 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
4007 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
4008 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
4009 `list(Messages)` works now
4010 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
4012 These allow, for example:
4014 if msg1 == msg2: ...
4016 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
4018 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
4024 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
4026 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
4029 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
4031 New build-system features
4032 -------------------------
4034 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
4036 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
4037 the configure script from some other directory:
4044 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4046 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4047 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4048 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4049 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4050 manual invocation of configure.
4052 New test-suite feature
4053 ----------------------
4055 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4057 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4058 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4059 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4060 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4061 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4064 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4066 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4067 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4068 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4069 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4070 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4071 are updated to take advantage of this.
4073 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4075 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4076 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4077 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4078 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4084 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4086 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4087 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4088 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4090 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4092 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4094 to:user@elsewhere.com
4096 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4098 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4100 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4102 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4103 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4104 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4107 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4108 from the Received headers in some cases
4110 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4111 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4113 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4115 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4117 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4119 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4120 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4121 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4123 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4124 -------------------------
4126 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4128 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4129 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4130 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4132 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4134 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4135 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4136 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4139 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4141 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4142 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4143 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4144 fixed to avoid this bug.
4146 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4148 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4149 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4151 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4152 ========================
4154 New, general features
4155 ---------------------
4157 Maildir-flag synchronization
4159 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4160 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4169 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4171 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4172 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4173 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4174 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4176 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4177 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4178 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4179 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4182 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4184 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4185 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4186 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4188 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4189 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4191 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4192 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4194 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4195 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4196 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4198 New library features
4199 --------------------
4201 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4203 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4204 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4205 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4206 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4208 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4209 message with the new function:
4211 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4213 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4214 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4215 over all available filenames for a given message.
4217 New command-line features
4218 -------------------------
4220 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4222 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4223 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4224 access to the mail store itself.
4226 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4227 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4228 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4229 name of a script containing:
4231 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4233 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4234 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4240 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4242 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4244 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4246 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4247 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4248 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4249 now produces nothing).
4251 Emacs interface improvements
4252 ----------------------------
4254 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4256 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4258 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4260 Display current thread subject in a header line
4262 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4264 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4266 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4267 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4268 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4269 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4270 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4271 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4272 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4274 Vim interface improvements
4275 --------------------------
4277 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4279 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4280 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4286 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4288 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4289 ========================
4291 New command-line features
4292 -------------------------
4294 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4296 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4297 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4298 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4300 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4301 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4302 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4303 scripts. For example:
4305 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4306 <operations-on> "$file"
4309 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4311 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4312 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4313 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4314 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4315 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4316 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4318 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4320 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4321 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4322 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4323 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4325 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4327 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4328 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4329 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4330 default rather than Bcc.
4332 New library features
4333 --------------------
4335 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4337 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4338 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4343 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4345 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4346 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4347 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4348 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4349 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4350 notmuch customize interface.
4352 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4354 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4355 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4356 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4357 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4359 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4361 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4362 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4363 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4364 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4366 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4368 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4369 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4370 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4371 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4372 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4373 notmuch customize interface.
4375 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4377 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4378 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4379 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4380 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4381 notmuch customize interface.
4383 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4385 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4386 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4387 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4388 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4391 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4393 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4394 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4395 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4398 New build-system features
4399 -------------------------
4401 Various portability fixes have been applied
4403 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4404 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4405 more portable than ever before.
4407 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4409 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4410 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4411 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4413 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4414 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4415 automatically run ldconfig.
4417 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4418 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4419 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4421 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4422 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4423 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4424 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4426 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4428 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4429 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4430 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4431 used in the resulting Makefile.
4433 New test-suite features
4434 -----------------------
4436 New modularization of test suite
4438 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4439 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4440 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4441 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4442 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4443 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4444 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4445 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4447 New testing of emacs interface
4449 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4450 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4451 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4452 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4453 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4454 database via the FCC setting.
4459 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4461 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4462 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4463 persistent error of the form:
4465 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4467 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4468 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4470 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4472 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4473 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4474 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4476 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4478 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4479 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4480 parsing the notmuch results).
4482 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4484 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4487 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4488 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4489 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4494 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4496 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4497 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4498 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4499 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4500 the emacs interface.
4502 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4504 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4505 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4506 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4508 Python-binding fixes
4509 --------------------
4511 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4513 Debian-specific fixes
4514 ---------------------
4516 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4518 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4519 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4520 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4523 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4524 ==========================
4529 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4531 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4532 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4533 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4534 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4536 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4538 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4539 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4540 want notmuch to crash.
4545 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4547 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4548 directory does not exist
4553 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4555 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4556 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4558 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4559 ========================
4561 New command-line features
4562 -------------------------
4564 User-configurable tags for new messages
4566 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4567 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4568 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4569 to specify this value.
4571 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4573 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4574 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4575 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4577 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4579 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4580 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4582 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4584 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4585 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4586 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4587 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4588 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4591 Indication of author names that match a search
4593 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4594 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4595 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4596 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4597 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4598 messages in the thread are listed first.
4600 New: Python bindings
4601 --------------------
4603 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4604 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4605 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4606 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4608 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4609 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4610 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4613 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4614 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4615 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4617 Emacs interface improvements
4618 ----------------------------
4620 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4622 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4623 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4624 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4625 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4626 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4627 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4628 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4629 but without any of the disadvantages).
4631 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4632 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4633 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4636 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4637 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4638 instead running something like:
4640 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4642 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4643 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4644 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4647 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4649 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4650 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4651 tweaked by the user.
4653 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4654 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4655 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4658 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4659 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4660 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4663 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4665 This support currently relies on an external program,
4666 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4667 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4668 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4669 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4670 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4673 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4674 notmuch) is available via:
4676 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4678 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4679 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4680 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4682 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4684 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4685 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4686 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4687 making this automatic in a future release.
4689 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4691 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4692 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4693 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4694 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4695 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4696 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4699 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4701 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4702 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4703 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4705 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4707 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4708 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4709 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4711 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4712 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4713 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4714 other representation.
4716 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4717 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4720 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4722 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4723 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4724 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4726 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4727 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4728 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4730 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4732 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4733 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4734 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4735 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4736 to display the search result.
4738 More flexible handling of header visibility
4740 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4741 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4742 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4743 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4744 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4745 with the 'h' keybinding.
4747 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4748 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4749 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4751 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4753 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4755 Customizable formatting of search results
4757 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4758 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4759 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4761 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4763 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4765 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4770 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4772 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4773 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4774 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4775 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4781 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4783 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4784 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4786 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4788 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4789 accept are now all accepted.
4794 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4796 Better display of output from failed tests
4798 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4799 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4801 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4802 ========================
4804 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4805 detailed release notes this time!
4807 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4808 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4810 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4811 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4812 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4813 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4820 Better guessing of From: header
4822 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4823 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4824 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4825 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4826 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4829 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4831 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4832 guaranteed to match all messages.
4834 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4836 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4837 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4838 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4839 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4840 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4843 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4846 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4847 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4848 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4849 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4854 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4856 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4857 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4858 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4859 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4861 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4863 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4865 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4866 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4867 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4869 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4871 Previously, the user might see:
4873 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4877 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4879 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4880 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4881 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4882 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4884 Emacs client features
4885 ---------------------
4887 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4889 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4890 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4891 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4892 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4893 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4895 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4898 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4899 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4900 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4901 search with the '*' binding.
4903 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4905 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4906 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4909 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4911 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4912 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4913 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4915 Build-system features
4916 ---------------------
4918 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4920 Add support to configure for many standard options
4922 We include actual support for:
4924 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4926 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4928 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4929 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4931 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4932 separate "make install-emacs"
4934 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4936 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4937 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4938 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4940 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4943 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4944 ========================
4946 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4948 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4949 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4951 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4952 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4953 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4954 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4955 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4956 tags from messages in a thread.
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