1 Notmuch 0.31 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
9 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
14 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
15 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
16 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
22 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
23 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
24 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
26 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
27 =========================
32 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
33 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
34 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
37 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
43 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
44 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
45 notmuch-properties(7)).
50 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
51 has protected headers (see
52 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
53 notmuch-properties(7)).
58 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
60 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
61 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
67 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
70 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
71 ===========================
76 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
78 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
83 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
85 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
86 ===========================
91 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
92 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
94 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
95 ===========================
100 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
102 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
103 =========================
108 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
109 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
112 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
113 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
114 the set of headers to be indexed.
116 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
119 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
120 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
121 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
124 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
125 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
126 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
128 Command Line Interface
129 ----------------------
131 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
134 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
136 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
137 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
138 more details about what is included there. This status includes
139 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
144 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
145 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
147 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
149 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
151 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
153 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
155 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
158 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
160 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
161 and may be removed in a future release.
163 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
169 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
171 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
172 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
177 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
178 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
179 cryptography support.
184 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
185 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
186 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
188 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
189 ===========================
191 Command line interface
192 ----------------------
194 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
195 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
197 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
198 ===========================
203 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
204 by message properties.
209 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
211 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
212 ===========================
217 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
222 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
223 now needed to build this documentation.
225 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
226 ===========================
231 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
232 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
234 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
235 =========================
242 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
243 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
244 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
245 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
246 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
249 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
251 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
252 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
253 correct encoding for such messages.
255 Command Line Interface
256 ----------------------
258 Support relative database paths
260 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
261 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
262 to $HOME of the invoking user.
267 Improve stderr handling
269 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
270 needed on e.g. macOS.
272 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
274 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
279 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
280 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
286 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
287 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
293 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
294 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
297 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
298 =========================
303 Add support for thread:{} queries
305 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
306 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
307 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
309 Command Line Interface
310 ----------------------
312 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
314 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
316 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
318 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
319 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
320 does not have to be available during message receipt.
325 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
331 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
332 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
334 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
335 ===========================
340 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
342 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
343 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
344 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
346 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
348 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
349 related abort in `notmuch show`.
351 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
352 ===========================
357 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
358 better late than never.
361 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
362 =========================
364 Command Line Interface
365 ----------------------
367 Support for re-indexing existing messages
369 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
370 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
371 change the way specific messages are indexed.
373 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
374 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
375 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
377 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
379 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
381 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
383 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
384 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
385 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
386 the setting of `new.tags`.
388 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
390 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
392 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
394 This inserts into the top level folder.
396 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
398 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
400 New option --output=address for notmuch address
402 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
404 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
406 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
407 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
408 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
410 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
415 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
417 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
418 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
419 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
420 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
421 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
422 config set index.decrypt true".
424 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
425 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
426 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
427 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
428 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
429 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
430 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
431 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
433 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
434 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
435 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
436 this feature without considering the security of your index.
441 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
443 Use make-process when available
445 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
446 notmuch command without using temporary files.
451 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
453 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
454 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
455 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
456 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
458 New functions to count files
460 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
461 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
463 New function to remove properties
465 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
466 drop all properties with a common pattern:
467 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
469 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
471 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
472 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
473 possibility of NULL was not documented.
475 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
477 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
478 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
479 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
480 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
481 operator may decide to change from message to message.
488 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
489 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
490 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
496 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
498 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
499 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
501 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
503 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
505 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
507 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
512 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
513 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
515 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
516 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
517 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
518 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
519 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
520 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
525 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
527 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
528 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
529 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
530 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
532 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
533 ===========================
538 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
539 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
542 Command Line Interface
543 ----------------------
545 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
546 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
549 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
550 ===========================
552 Command Line Interface
553 ----------------------
555 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
556 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
561 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
564 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
565 ===========================
570 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
573 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
574 =========================
579 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
581 Skip HTML tags when indexing
583 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
585 Command Line Interface
586 ----------------------
588 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
590 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
595 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
597 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
598 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
601 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
606 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
608 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
609 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
611 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
613 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
614 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
617 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
619 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
621 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
623 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
624 ===========================
626 Command Line Interface
627 ----------------------
629 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
634 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
636 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
637 ===========================
642 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
644 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
645 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
648 Command Line Interface
649 ----------------------
651 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
653 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
655 Fix bug in dump header
657 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
658 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
659 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
664 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
666 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
667 =========================
672 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
674 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
677 Command Line Interface
678 ----------------------
680 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
682 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
683 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
684 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
686 New default output format to 3
688 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
689 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
690 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
691 default format changes.
696 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
698 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
699 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
700 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
701 or tree view to resume.
703 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
704 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
705 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
708 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
709 they were when you postponed in the final message.
713 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
714 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
715 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
716 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
717 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
721 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
722 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
723 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
724 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
725 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
726 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
730 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
731 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
733 Stop display of `application/*` parts
735 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
736 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
737 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
738 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
739 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
740 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
741 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
742 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
745 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
747 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
748 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
749 only tagged the current thread.)
751 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
753 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
754 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
755 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
757 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
759 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
760 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
761 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
762 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
763 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
764 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
765 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
767 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
769 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
770 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
771 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
776 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
778 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
781 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
783 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
786 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
787 ===========================
792 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
794 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
795 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
796 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
799 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
800 ===========================
802 Command Line Interface
803 ----------------------
805 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
810 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
812 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
813 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
814 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
816 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
817 ===========================
822 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
823 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
825 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
826 ===========================
828 Command Line Interface
829 ----------------------
831 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
833 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
834 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
835 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
840 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
842 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
843 ===========================
845 Command Line Interface
846 ----------------------
848 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
853 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
855 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
856 ===========================
861 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
863 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
864 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
865 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
867 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
869 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
871 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
872 ===========================
877 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
879 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
884 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
886 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
887 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
888 the original colours.
890 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
891 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
893 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
895 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
896 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
897 bug, and hence the test.
899 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
900 =========================
902 General (Xapian 1.4+)
903 ---------------------
905 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
907 Support for single argument date: queries
909 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
911 Support for blocking opens
913 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
914 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
916 Support for named queries
918 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
919 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
920 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
927 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
928 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
929 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
930 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
932 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
934 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
939 Support for compile time options
941 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
942 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
945 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
947 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
948 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
949 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
950 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
951 scripts to ignore it.
956 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
958 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
959 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
960 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
962 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
963 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
964 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
965 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
966 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
967 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
968 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
970 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
971 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
974 Make internal address completion customizable
976 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
977 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
978 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
979 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
982 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
984 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
985 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
986 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
987 completion for the current buffer.
989 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
990 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
991 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
995 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
996 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
997 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
998 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
999 will be added instead.
1001 Face customization is easier
1003 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1004 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1005 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1006 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1008 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1013 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1018 Go bindings moved to contrib
1020 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1022 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1024 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1025 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1027 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1029 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1030 ===========================
1037 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1038 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1040 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1042 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1044 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1045 ===========================
1050 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1052 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1057 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1062 Use `env` to locate perl.
1067 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1069 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1071 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1073 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1075 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1076 =========================
1083 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1084 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1086 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1088 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1089 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1090 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1095 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1096 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1097 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1099 Command Line Interface
1100 ----------------------
1102 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1104 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1109 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1114 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1116 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1117 parts are now included in replies.
1119 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1120 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1121 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1122 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1124 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1126 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1128 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1130 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1131 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1132 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1133 forwards only the current message.
1135 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1137 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1138 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1139 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1140 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1141 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1142 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1143 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1144 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1147 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1148 longer generate empty buffers
1150 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1151 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1152 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1153 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1154 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1156 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1158 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1161 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1163 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1166 Address completion improvements
1168 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1169 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1170 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1171 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1172 interactive address completion.
1174 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1176 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1177 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1178 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1183 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1184 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1185 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1191 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1192 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1193 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1194 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1195 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1196 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1198 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1199 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1200 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1201 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1202 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1203 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1205 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1206 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1208 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1209 =========================
1214 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1217 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1219 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1220 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1221 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1223 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1224 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1226 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1227 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1228 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1230 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1232 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1233 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1234 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1235 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1236 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1237 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1242 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1243 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1246 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1247 option to configure.
1249 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1251 Command Line Interface
1252 ----------------------
1254 Database revision tracking
1256 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1257 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1258 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1259 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1261 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1263 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1264 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1265 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1266 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1267 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1268 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1269 manual page for further information.
1274 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1276 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1277 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1279 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1281 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1282 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1283 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1285 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1287 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1289 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1290 customization as well.
1292 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1294 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1296 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1298 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1300 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1301 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1302 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1303 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1305 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1307 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1308 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1309 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1310 this variable to 10000.
1315 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1316 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1318 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1320 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1321 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1322 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1323 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1324 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1325 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1326 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1327 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1328 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1331 Database revision tracking
1333 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1334 query parser and the new function
1335 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1337 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1339 Deprecated functions
1341 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1342 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1343 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1344 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1349 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1351 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1352 ===========================
1357 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1359 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1360 ===========================
1365 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1367 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1368 =========================
1370 Command-Line Interface
1371 ----------------------
1373 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1375 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1376 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1377 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1379 Path to gpg is now configurable
1381 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1382 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1387 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1389 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1394 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1399 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1404 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1406 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1407 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1409 New error logging facility
1411 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1412 output formerly printed to stderr.
1414 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1416 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1418 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1420 Fix for rounding of seconds
1425 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1427 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1428 documentation has been removed.
1430 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1432 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1433 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1438 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1439 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1440 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1445 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1446 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1447 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1448 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1449 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1450 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1453 git checkout config origin/config
1455 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1457 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1458 =========================
1463 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1464 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1465 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1466 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1467 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1468 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1469 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1471 Command-Line Interface
1472 ----------------------
1474 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1476 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1477 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1478 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1479 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1480 script callers should still check the return value.
1482 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1484 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1485 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1486 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1487 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1488 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1489 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1490 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1492 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1494 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1495 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1496 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1498 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1500 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1501 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1502 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1503 currently unmaintained.
1505 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1507 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1508 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1509 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1510 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1512 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1514 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1515 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1516 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1517 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1518 count of duplicate addresses.
1523 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1525 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1526 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1527 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1530 Improved handling of the unread tag
1532 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1533 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1534 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1535 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1536 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1537 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1538 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1540 Expanded default saved search settings
1542 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1543 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1545 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1547 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1548 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1549 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1551 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1553 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1554 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1555 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1556 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1557 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1558 the variable for details.
1563 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1565 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1566 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1567 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1568 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1570 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1572 Previously, library users were required to call
1573 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1574 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1575 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1576 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1577 too out of date for that API.
1579 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1581 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1582 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1583 atomic section will be aborted.
1585 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1586 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1588 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1590 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1591 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1592 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1593 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1594 messages into the same thread.
1599 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1600 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1601 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1602 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1603 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1604 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1609 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1610 from the config file. Use something like:
1614 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1615 "footer": "</body></html>",
1624 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1629 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1630 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1631 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1633 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1634 ===========================
1639 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1641 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1643 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1645 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1646 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1648 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1650 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1653 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1654 ===========================
1656 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1661 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1663 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1665 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1667 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1669 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1675 Use --quick when starting emacs
1677 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1679 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1681 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1683 Command-Line Interface
1684 ----------------------
1686 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1687 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1692 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1694 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1695 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1697 Fix for phrase indexing
1699 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1700 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1701 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1706 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1708 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1709 unintentionally removed.
1711 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1712 =========================
1717 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1718 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1719 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1720 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1721 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1722 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1723 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1724 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1725 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1731 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1733 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1734 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1735 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1736 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1737 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1738 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1739 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1740 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1742 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1744 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1745 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1746 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1747 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1750 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1752 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1753 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1754 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1755 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1756 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1757 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1758 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1763 Notmuch database upgrade
1765 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1766 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1767 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1768 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1769 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1770 released version of Notmuch before now.
1772 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1774 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1775 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1776 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1777 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1779 Message header parsing changes
1781 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1782 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1783 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1784 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1785 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1786 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1788 Command-Line Interface
1789 ----------------------
1791 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1793 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1795 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1797 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1799 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1801 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1802 user does not want it.
1804 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1806 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1807 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1808 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1809 support formatted output.
1811 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1813 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1814 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1815 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1823 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1824 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1825 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1826 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1827 `~/.emacs` with these.
1829 Changed format for saved searches
1831 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1832 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1833 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1834 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1837 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1838 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1839 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1840 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1842 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1843 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1844 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1846 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1847 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1848 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1849 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1850 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1852 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1854 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1855 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1856 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1858 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1860 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1861 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1862 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1863 message had been unread).
1865 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1866 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1867 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1868 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1870 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1871 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1872 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1874 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1875 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1876 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1877 to tags already present.
1881 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1882 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1883 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1884 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1885 these differ from each other.
1886 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1888 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1890 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1891 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1892 for these Emacs versions.
1894 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1896 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1897 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1899 Bug fixes for sender identities
1901 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1902 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1903 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1905 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1907 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1908 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1909 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1910 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1912 Reply pushes mark before signature
1914 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1915 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1916 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1918 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1920 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1921 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1927 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1928 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1930 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1931 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1932 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1933 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1935 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1936 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1937 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1938 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1939 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1941 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1943 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1944 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1946 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1947 =========================
1949 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1950 ---------------------------------------
1952 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1953 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1954 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1955 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1956 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1957 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1958 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1962 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1963 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1965 Command-Line Interface
1966 ----------------------
1968 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1970 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1971 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1972 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1973 print for each message.
1975 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1976 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1977 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1978 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1980 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1982 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1983 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1984 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1986 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1988 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1989 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1990 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1991 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1993 `notmuch compact` command
1995 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1996 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1997 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1998 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1999 move the compacted database into place.
2004 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2006 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2007 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2008 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2009 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2010 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2011 and multiple threads.
2013 Using `notmuch-tree`
2015 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2017 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2018 search, show and tree mode itself)
2020 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2023 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2024 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2026 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2028 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2029 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2030 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2031 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2032 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2033 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2034 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2036 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2038 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2039 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2040 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2041 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2042 thread when the search was performed.
2044 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2046 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2047 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2048 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2050 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2052 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2053 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2056 Built-in help improvements
2058 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2059 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2060 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2062 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2064 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2065 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2066 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2068 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2070 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2071 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2073 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2075 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2076 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2077 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2078 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2080 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2082 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2083 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2084 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2085 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2087 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2089 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2090 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2091 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2093 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2095 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2096 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2097 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2099 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2101 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2102 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2103 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2104 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2105 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2107 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2109 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2110 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2111 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2112 the body part of the message.
2117 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2118 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2119 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2121 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2122 =========================
2124 Command-Line Interface
2125 ----------------------
2127 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2129 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2130 folder and notmuch index.
2132 `notmuch count --batch` option
2134 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2135 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2137 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2139 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2140 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2141 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2144 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2146 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2147 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2148 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2149 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2150 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2153 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2155 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2156 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2158 Top level option to specify configuration file
2160 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2161 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2163 Bash command-line completion
2165 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2166 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2167 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2168 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2169 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2170 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2171 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2172 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2173 bash-completion package.
2175 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2180 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2182 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2183 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2184 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2185 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2186 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2187 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2188 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2189 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2191 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2193 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2194 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2195 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2197 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2199 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2200 previous thread in the search results.
2202 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2204 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2205 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2207 Faster search and show
2209 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2210 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2211 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2212 threads should show faster.
2216 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2217 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2218 in question was now removed from this release.
2223 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2224 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2229 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2231 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2232 ===========================
2237 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2239 Internal test framework changes
2240 -------------------------------
2242 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2243 being unimplemented.
2245 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2246 ===========================
2248 Internal test framework changes
2249 -------------------------------
2251 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2252 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2254 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2255 =========================
2260 Date range search support
2262 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2263 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2264 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2265 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2266 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2269 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2271 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2272 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2273 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2274 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2275 but may be removed in a future release.
2277 Command-Line Interface
2278 ----------------------
2280 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2282 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2283 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2285 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2287 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2288 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2289 officially deprecated.
2291 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2293 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2294 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2295 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2297 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2299 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2300 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2303 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2304 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2305 dump/restore format.
2307 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2309 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2310 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2311 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2313 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2315 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2316 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2317 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2319 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2321 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2322 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2323 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2324 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2329 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2331 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2332 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2333 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2334 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2336 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2338 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2339 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2340 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2341 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2342 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2343 the behavior of this, see
2344 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2345 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2347 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2348 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2349 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2351 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2353 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2354 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2357 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2359 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2360 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2361 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2362 simply displayed in place of the message.
2364 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2366 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2367 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2369 Improved text/calendar content handling
2371 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2372 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2373 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2374 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2376 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2378 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2379 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2380 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2381 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2383 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2385 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2386 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2387 for HTML email containing images.
2389 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2391 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2393 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2395 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2398 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2400 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2401 the point where it was.
2403 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2405 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2406 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2407 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2408 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2409 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2411 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2413 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2414 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2415 thread instead of the message id.
2417 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2418 -----------------------------
2420 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2421 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2422 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2423 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2424 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2425 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2426 further details and installation.
2431 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2433 Internal test framework changes
2434 -------------------------------
2436 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2438 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2439 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2440 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2441 can result in buggy behavior.
2443 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2444 =========================
2449 Maildir tag synchronization
2451 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2452 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2453 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2454 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2455 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2456 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2459 Command-Line Interface
2460 ----------------------
2462 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2463 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2464 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2465 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2466 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2472 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2474 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2476 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2477 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2478 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2480 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2482 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2483 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2484 span multiple lines.
2486 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2488 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2489 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2490 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2491 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2492 inside the result or message.
2494 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2496 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2497 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2499 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2500 user-specified formatting
2502 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2503 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2504 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2505 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2506 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2508 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2509 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2511 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2512 ===========================
2517 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2518 compilation error for this contrib package.
2520 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2521 ===========================
2526 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2528 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2529 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2530 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2531 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2533 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2534 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2537 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2538 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2539 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2540 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2543 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2545 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2548 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2549 =========================
2551 Command-Line Interface
2552 ----------------------
2556 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2557 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2558 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2559 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2561 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2562 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2563 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2564 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2568 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2569 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2571 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2572 tag in your query, for example:
2574 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2576 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2577 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2579 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2580 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2582 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2584 Raw show format changes
2586 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2587 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2588 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2589 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2590 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2591 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2592 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2593 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2595 Listing configuration items
2597 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2603 Changes to tagging interface
2605 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2606 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2607 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2608 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2609 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2610 for more information.
2612 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2613 may need to update in custom configurations.
2615 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2617 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2618 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2619 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2620 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2623 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2624 -----------------------------
2626 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2627 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2628 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2629 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2630 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2631 contrib/ from now on.
2636 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2637 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2639 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2640 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2642 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2643 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2644 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2646 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2647 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2649 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2650 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2651 returning the new database object or directory object.
2658 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2659 compatible with go 1.
2661 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2662 =========================
2664 Command-Line Interface
2665 ----------------------
2669 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2670 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2671 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2672 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2674 Mail store folder/file ignore
2676 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2677 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2678 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2680 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2681 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2683 Unified help and manual pages
2685 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2686 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2689 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2691 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2692 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2700 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2701 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2702 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2703 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2705 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2707 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2708 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2710 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2713 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2714 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2715 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2717 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2719 should be changed to:
2721 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2723 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2725 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2726 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2728 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2730 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2731 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2732 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2733 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2734 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2735 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2739 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2740 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2741 of Mailing List Archives.
2743 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2745 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2746 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2749 Show view archiving key binding changes
2751 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2752 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2753 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2754 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2755 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2758 Support text/calendar MIME type
2760 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2763 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2765 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2766 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2767 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2768 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2770 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2772 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2773 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2774 messages blue by default in the search view.
2778 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2779 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2786 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2789 Python bindings changes
2790 -----------------------
2792 Python 3.2 compatibility
2794 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2796 Added missing unicode conversions
2798 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2799 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2800 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2805 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2807 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2808 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2809 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2810 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2811 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2813 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2814 ===========================
2819 Fix error handling in python bindings
2821 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2822 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2823 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2824 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2826 Quote MML tags in replies
2828 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2829 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2830 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2831 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2832 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2833 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2834 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2835 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2837 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2838 =========================
2840 Command-Line Interface
2841 ----------------------
2845 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2846 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2847 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2848 importing new messages into the database.
2850 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2852 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2853 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2854 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2859 Automatic tag query optimization
2861 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2862 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2863 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2865 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2867 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2868 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2869 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2874 Reduction of memory leaks
2876 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2877 and fixed in this release.
2884 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2885 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2886 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2889 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2891 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2892 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2893 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2896 Improvements in saved search management
2898 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2899 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2900 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2902 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2904 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2905 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2906 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2908 New face for crypto parts headers
2910 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2911 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2912 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2915 Use space as default thousands separator
2917 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2918 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2919 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2921 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2922 buttonized id: links
2924 New function notmuch-show-advance
2926 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2927 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2928 be bound to SPC with:
2930 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2932 Various performance improvements
2937 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2938 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2941 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2942 ===========================
2947 Fix crash in python bindings
2949 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2950 for some, but not all users.
2952 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2953 ===========================
2958 Fix `--help` argument
2960 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2961 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2962 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2964 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2965 =========================
2967 New build and testing features
2968 ------------------------------
2970 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2971 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2972 prerequisites is improved.
2974 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2976 New command-line features
2977 -------------------------
2979 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2981 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2982 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2985 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2987 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2988 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2989 favour of using stdout.
2991 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2993 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2994 limit the number of results shown.
2996 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2998 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2999 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3002 New emacs UI features
3003 ---------------------
3005 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3007 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3008 starting with "tag:".
3010 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3012 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3013 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3015 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3017 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3019 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3021 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3022 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3027 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3029 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3031 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3032 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3033 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3034 requires a database rebuild:
3036 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3037 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3039 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3041 New collection of add-on tools
3042 ------------------------------
3044 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3045 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3046 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3049 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3051 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3052 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3053 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3055 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3056 ========================
3058 New, general features
3059 ---------------------
3061 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3063 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3064 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3065 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3066 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3067 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3074 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3075 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3077 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3081 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3082 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3083 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3086 Python bindings changes
3087 -----------------------
3089 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3091 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3092 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3093 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3094 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3095 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3096 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3098 Ruby bindings changes
3099 ---------------------
3101 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3102 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3103 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3104 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3109 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3111 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3112 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3114 Reply formatting cleanup
3115 ------------------------
3117 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3118 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3120 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3121 ========================
3123 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3125 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3126 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3127 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3128 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3131 Improved Build system portability
3133 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3134 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3135 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3137 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3139 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3141 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3143 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3144 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3145 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3147 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3148 ========================
3150 Vim interface improvements
3151 --------------------------
3153 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3155 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3156 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3157 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3158 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3159 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3161 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3163 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3164 * fix compose temp file name
3166 Python Bindings changes
3167 -----------------------
3169 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3171 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3172 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3174 Build-System improvements
3175 -------------------------
3177 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3179 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3182 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3183 ==========================
3188 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3190 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3191 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3193 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3194 =======================
3196 New, general features
3197 ---------------------
3199 Folder-based searching
3201 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3202 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3203 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3207 For example, one might use things such as:
3213 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3214 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3216 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3217 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3218 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3219 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3221 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3222 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3223 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3226 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3227 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3229 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3231 Support for PGP/MIME
3233 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3234 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3235 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3237 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3239 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3240 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3242 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3243 notmuch will receive these tags.
3245 New command-line features
3246 -------------------------
3248 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3250 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3251 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3253 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3255 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3256 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3257 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3259 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3261 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3262 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3263 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3264 which parts a signature part applies).
3266 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3268 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3269 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3270 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3271 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3272 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3275 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3277 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3278 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3279 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3280 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3281 by translating it internally to the new call.
3283 Performance improvements
3284 ------------------------
3286 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3288 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3289 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3290 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3292 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3293 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3295 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3297 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3298 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3299 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3301 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3302 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3303 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3304 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3306 Faster initial indexing
3308 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3309 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3310 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3312 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3314 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3315 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3316 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3317 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3319 New emacs-interface features
3320 ----------------------------
3322 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3324 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3325 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3326 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3327 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3328 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3329 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3331 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3333 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3334 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3335 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3336 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3338 User-selectable From address
3340 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3341 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3342 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3343 will prompt for the from address to use.
3345 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3346 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3347 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3349 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3350 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3351 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3354 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3356 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3357 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3359 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3361 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3363 ----- Original Message -----
3365 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3366 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3367 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3368 citations work much like conventional citations.
3370 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3372 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3373 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3374 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3375 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3376 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3378 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3379 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3381 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3383 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3384 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3385 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3387 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3389 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3390 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3391 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3392 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3393 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3395 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3397 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3400 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3402 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3404 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3406 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3409 Vim interface improvements
3410 --------------------------
3412 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3414 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3415 * Implementing archive in show view
3416 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3417 * Add delete commands
3420 Bindings improvements
3421 ---------------------
3423 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3425 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3426 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3428 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3430 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3434 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3435 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3436 `list(Messages)` works now
3437 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3439 These allow, for example:
3441 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3443 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3445 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3451 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3453 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3456 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3458 New build-system features
3459 -------------------------
3461 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3463 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3464 the configure script from some other directory:
3471 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3473 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3474 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3475 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3476 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3477 manual invocation of configure.
3479 New test-suite feature
3480 ----------------------
3482 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3484 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3485 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3486 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3487 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3488 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3491 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3493 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3494 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3495 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3496 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3497 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3498 are updated to take advantage of this.
3500 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3502 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3503 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3504 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3505 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3511 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3513 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3514 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3515 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3517 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3519 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3521 to:user@elsewhere.com
3523 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3525 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3527 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3529 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3530 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3531 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3534 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3535 from the Received headers in some cases
3537 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3538 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3540 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3542 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3544 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3546 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3547 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3548 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3550 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3551 -------------------------
3553 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3555 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3556 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3557 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3559 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3561 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3562 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3563 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3566 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3568 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3569 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3570 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3571 fixed to avoid this bug.
3573 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3575 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3576 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3578 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3579 ========================
3581 New, general features
3582 ---------------------
3584 Maildir-flag synchronization
3586 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3587 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3596 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3598 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3599 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3600 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3601 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3603 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3604 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3605 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3606 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3609 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3611 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3612 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3613 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3615 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3616 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3618 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3619 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3621 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3622 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3623 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3625 New library features
3626 --------------------
3628 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3630 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3631 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3632 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3633 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3635 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3636 message with the new function:
3638 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3640 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3641 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3642 over all available filenames for a given message.
3644 New command-line features
3645 -------------------------
3647 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3649 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3650 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3651 access to the mail store itself.
3653 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3654 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3655 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3656 name of a script containing:
3658 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3660 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3661 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3667 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3669 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3671 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3673 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3674 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3675 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3676 now produces nothing).
3678 Emacs interface improvements
3679 ----------------------------
3681 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3683 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3685 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3687 Display current thread subject in a header line
3689 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3691 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3693 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3694 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3695 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3696 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3697 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3698 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3699 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3701 Vim interface improvements
3702 --------------------------
3704 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3706 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3707 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3713 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3715 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3716 ========================
3718 New command-line features
3719 -------------------------
3721 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3723 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3724 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3725 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3727 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3728 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3729 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3730 scripts. For example:
3732 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3733 <operations-on> "$file"
3736 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3738 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3739 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3740 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3741 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3742 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3743 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3745 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3747 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3748 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3749 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3750 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3752 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3754 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3755 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3756 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3757 default rather than Bcc.
3759 New library features
3760 --------------------
3762 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3764 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3765 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3770 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3772 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3773 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3774 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3775 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3776 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3777 notmuch customize interface.
3779 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3781 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3782 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3783 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3784 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3786 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3788 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3789 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3790 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3791 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3793 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3795 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3796 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3797 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3798 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3799 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3800 notmuch customize interface.
3802 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3804 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3805 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3806 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3807 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3808 notmuch customize interface.
3810 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3812 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3813 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3814 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3815 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3818 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3820 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3821 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3822 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3825 New build-system features
3826 -------------------------
3828 Various portability fixes have been applied
3830 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3831 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3832 more portable than ever before.
3834 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3836 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3837 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3838 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3840 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3841 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3842 automatically run ldconfig.
3844 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3845 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3846 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3848 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3849 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3850 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3851 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3853 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3855 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3856 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3857 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3858 used in the resulting Makefile.
3860 New test-suite features
3861 -----------------------
3863 New modularization of test suite
3865 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3866 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3867 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3868 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3869 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3870 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3871 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3872 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3874 New testing of emacs interface
3876 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3877 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3878 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3879 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3880 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3881 database via the FCC setting.
3886 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3888 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3889 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3890 persistent error of the form:
3892 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3894 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3895 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3897 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3899 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3900 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3901 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3903 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3905 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3906 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3907 parsing the notmuch results).
3909 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3911 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3914 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3915 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3916 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3921 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3923 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3924 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3925 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3926 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3927 the emacs interface.
3929 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3931 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3932 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3933 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3935 Python-binding fixes
3936 --------------------
3938 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3940 Debian-specific fixes
3941 ---------------------
3943 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3945 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3946 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3947 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3950 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3951 ==========================
3956 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3958 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3959 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3960 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3961 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3963 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3965 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3966 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3967 want notmuch to crash.
3972 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3974 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3975 directory does not exist
3980 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3982 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3983 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3985 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3986 ========================
3988 New command-line features
3989 -------------------------
3991 User-configurable tags for new messages
3993 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3994 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3995 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3996 to specify this value.
3998 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4000 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4001 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4002 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4004 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4006 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4007 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4009 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4011 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4012 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4013 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4014 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4015 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4018 Indication of author names that match a search
4020 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4021 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4022 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4023 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4024 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4025 messages in the thread are listed first.
4027 New: Python bindings
4028 --------------------
4030 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4031 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4032 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4033 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4035 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4036 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4037 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4040 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4041 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4042 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4044 Emacs interface improvements
4045 ----------------------------
4047 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4049 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4050 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4051 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4052 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4053 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4054 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4055 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4056 but without any of the disadvantages).
4058 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4059 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4060 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4063 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4064 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4065 instead running something like:
4067 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4069 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4070 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4071 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4074 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4076 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4077 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4078 tweaked by the user.
4080 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4081 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4082 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4085 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4086 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4087 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4090 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4092 This support currently relies on an external program,
4093 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4094 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4095 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4096 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4097 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4100 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4101 notmuch) is available via:
4103 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4105 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4106 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4107 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4109 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4111 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4112 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4113 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4114 making this automatic in a future release.
4116 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4118 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4119 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4120 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4121 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4122 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4123 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4126 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4128 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4129 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4130 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4132 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4134 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4135 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4136 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4138 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4139 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4140 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4141 other representation.
4143 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4144 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4147 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4149 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4150 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4151 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4153 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4154 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4155 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4157 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4159 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4160 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4161 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4162 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4163 to display the search result.
4165 More flexible handling of header visibility
4167 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4168 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4169 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4170 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4171 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4172 with the 'h' keybinding.
4174 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4175 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4176 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4178 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4180 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4182 Customizable formatting of search results
4184 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4185 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4186 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4188 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4190 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4192 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4197 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4199 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4200 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4201 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4202 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4208 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4210 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4211 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4213 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4215 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4216 accept are now all accepted.
4221 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4223 Better display of output from failed tests
4225 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4226 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4228 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4229 ========================
4231 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4232 detailed release notes this time!
4234 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4235 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4237 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4238 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4239 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4240 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4247 Better guessing of From: header
4249 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4250 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4251 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4252 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4253 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4256 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4258 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4259 guaranteed to match all messages.
4261 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4263 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4264 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4265 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4266 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4267 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4270 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4273 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4274 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4275 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4276 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4281 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4283 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4284 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4285 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4286 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4288 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4290 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4292 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4293 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4294 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4296 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4298 Previously, the user might see:
4300 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4304 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4306 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4307 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4308 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4309 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4311 Emacs client features
4312 ---------------------
4314 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4316 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4317 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4318 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4319 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4320 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4322 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4325 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4326 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4327 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4328 search with the '*' binding.
4330 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4332 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4333 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4336 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4338 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4339 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4340 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4342 Build-system features
4343 ---------------------
4345 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4347 Add support to configure for many standard options
4349 We include actual support for:
4351 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4353 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4355 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4356 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4358 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4359 separate "make install-emacs"
4361 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4363 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4364 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4365 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4367 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4370 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4371 ========================
4373 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4375 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4376 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4378 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4379 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4380 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4381 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4382 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4383 tags from messages in a thread.
4390 indent-tabs-mode: nil