1 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
2 ===========================
7 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
8 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
10 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
11 ===========================
16 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
18 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
19 =========================
24 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
25 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
28 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
29 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
30 the set of headers to be indexed.
32 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
35 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
36 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
37 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
40 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
41 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
42 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
44 Command Line Interface
45 ----------------------
47 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
50 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
52 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
53 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
54 more details about what is included there. This status includes
55 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
60 Optionally check for missing attachements in outgoing messages (see
61 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
63 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
65 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
67 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
69 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
71 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
74 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
76 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
77 and may be removed in a future release.
79 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
85 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
87 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
88 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
93 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
94 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
100 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
101 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
102 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
104 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
105 ===========================
107 Command line interface
108 ----------------------
110 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
111 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
113 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
114 ===========================
119 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
120 by message properties.
125 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
127 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
128 ===========================
133 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
138 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
139 now needed to build this documentation.
141 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
142 ===========================
147 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
148 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
150 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
151 =========================
158 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
159 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
160 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
161 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
162 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
165 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
167 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
168 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
169 correct encoding for such messages.
171 Command Line Interface
172 ----------------------
174 Support relative database paths
176 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
177 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
178 to $HOME of the invoking user.
183 Improve stderr handling
185 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
186 needed on e.g. macOS.
188 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
190 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
195 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
196 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
202 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
203 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
209 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
210 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
213 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
214 =========================
219 Add support for thread:{} queries
221 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
222 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
223 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
225 Command Line Interface
226 ----------------------
228 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
230 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
232 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
234 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
235 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
236 does not have to be available during message receipt.
241 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
247 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
248 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
250 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
251 ===========================
256 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
258 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
259 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
260 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
262 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
264 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
265 related abort in `notmuch show`.
267 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
268 ===========================
273 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
274 better late than never.
277 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
278 =========================
280 Command Line Interface
281 ----------------------
283 Support for re-indexing existing messages
285 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
286 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
287 change the way specific messages are indexed.
289 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
290 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
291 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
293 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
295 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
297 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
299 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
300 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
301 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
302 the setting of `new.tags`.
304 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
306 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
308 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
310 This inserts into the top level folder.
312 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
314 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
316 New option --output=address for notmuch address
318 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
320 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
322 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
323 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
324 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
326 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
331 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
333 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
334 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
335 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
336 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
337 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
338 config set index.decrypt true".
340 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
341 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
342 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
343 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
344 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
345 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
346 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
347 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
349 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
350 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
351 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
352 this feature without considering the security of your index.
357 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
359 Use make-process when available
361 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
362 notmuch command without using temporary files.
367 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
369 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
370 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
371 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
372 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
374 New functions to count files
376 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
377 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
379 New function to remove properties
381 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
382 drop all properties with a common pattern:
383 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
385 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
387 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
388 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
389 possibility of NULL was not documented.
391 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
393 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
394 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
395 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
396 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
397 operator may decide to change from message to message.
404 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
405 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
406 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
412 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
414 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
415 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
417 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
419 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
421 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
423 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
428 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
429 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
431 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
432 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
433 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
434 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
435 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
436 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
441 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
443 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
444 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
445 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
446 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
448 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
449 ===========================
454 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
455 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
458 Command Line Interface
459 ----------------------
461 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
462 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
465 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
466 ===========================
468 Command Line Interface
469 ----------------------
471 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
472 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
477 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
480 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
481 ===========================
486 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
489 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
490 =========================
495 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
497 Skip HTML tags when indexing
499 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
501 Command Line Interface
502 ----------------------
504 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
506 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
511 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
513 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
514 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
517 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
522 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
524 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
525 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
527 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
529 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
530 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
533 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
535 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
537 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
539 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
540 ===========================
542 Command Line Interface
543 ----------------------
545 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
550 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
552 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
553 ===========================
558 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
560 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
561 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
564 Command Line Interface
565 ----------------------
567 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
569 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
571 Fix bug in dump header
573 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
574 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
575 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
580 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
582 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
583 =========================
588 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
590 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
593 Command Line Interface
594 ----------------------
596 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
598 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
599 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
600 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
602 New default output format to 3
604 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
605 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
606 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
607 default format changes.
612 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
614 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
615 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
616 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
617 or tree view to resume.
619 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
620 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
621 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
624 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
625 they were when you postponed in the final message.
629 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
630 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
631 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
632 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
633 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
637 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
638 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
639 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
640 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
641 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
642 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
646 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
647 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
649 Stop display of `application/*` parts
651 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
652 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
653 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
654 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
655 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
656 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
657 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
658 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
661 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
663 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
664 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
665 only tagged the current thread.)
667 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
669 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
670 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
671 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
673 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
675 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
676 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
677 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
678 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
679 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
680 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
681 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
683 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
685 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
686 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
687 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
692 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
694 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
697 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
699 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
702 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
703 ===========================
708 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
710 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
711 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
712 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
715 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
716 ===========================
718 Command Line Interface
719 ----------------------
721 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
726 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
728 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
729 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
730 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
732 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
733 ===========================
738 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
739 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
741 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
742 ===========================
744 Command Line Interface
745 ----------------------
747 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
749 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
750 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
751 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
756 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
758 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
759 ===========================
761 Command Line Interface
762 ----------------------
764 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
769 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
771 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
772 ===========================
777 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
779 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
780 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
781 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
783 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
785 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
787 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
788 ===========================
793 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
795 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
800 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
802 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
803 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
804 the original colours.
806 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
807 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
809 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
811 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
812 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
813 bug, and hence the test.
815 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
816 =========================
818 General (Xapian 1.4+)
819 ---------------------
821 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
823 Support for single argument date: queries
825 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
827 Support for blocking opens
829 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
830 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
832 Support for named queries
834 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
835 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
836 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
843 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
844 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
845 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
846 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
848 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
850 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
855 Support for compile time options
857 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
858 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
861 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
863 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
864 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
865 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
866 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
867 scripts to ignore it.
872 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
874 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
875 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
876 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
878 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
879 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
880 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
881 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
882 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
883 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
884 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
886 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
887 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
890 Make internal address completion customizable
892 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
893 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
894 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
895 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
898 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
900 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
901 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
902 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
903 completion for the current buffer.
905 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
906 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
907 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
911 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
912 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
913 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
914 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
915 will be added instead.
917 Face customization is easier
919 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
920 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
921 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
922 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
924 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
929 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
934 Go bindings moved to contrib
936 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
938 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
940 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
941 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
943 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
945 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
946 ===========================
953 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
954 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
956 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
958 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
960 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
961 ===========================
966 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
968 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
973 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
978 Use `env` to locate perl.
983 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
985 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
987 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
989 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
991 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
992 =========================
999 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1000 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1002 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1004 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1005 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1006 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1011 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1012 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1013 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1015 Command Line Interface
1016 ----------------------
1018 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1020 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1025 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1030 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1032 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1033 parts are now included in replies.
1035 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1036 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1037 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1038 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1040 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1042 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1044 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1046 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1047 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1048 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1049 forwards only the current message.
1051 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1053 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1054 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1055 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1056 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1057 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1058 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1059 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1060 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1063 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1064 longer generate empty buffers
1066 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1067 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1068 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1069 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1070 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1072 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1074 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1077 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1079 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1082 Address completion improvements
1084 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1085 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1086 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1087 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1088 interactive address completion.
1090 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1092 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1093 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1094 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1099 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1100 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1101 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1107 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1108 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1109 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1110 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1111 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1112 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1114 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1115 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1116 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1117 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1118 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1119 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1121 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1122 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1124 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1125 =========================
1130 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1133 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1135 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1136 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1137 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1139 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1140 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1142 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1143 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1144 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1146 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1148 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1149 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1150 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1151 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1152 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1153 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1158 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1159 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1162 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1163 option to configure.
1165 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1167 Command Line Interface
1168 ----------------------
1170 Database revision tracking
1172 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1173 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1174 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1175 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1177 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1179 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1180 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1181 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1182 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1183 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1184 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1185 manual page for further information.
1190 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1192 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1193 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1195 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1197 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1198 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1199 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1201 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1203 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1205 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1206 customization as well.
1208 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1210 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1212 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1214 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1216 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1217 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1218 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1219 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1221 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1223 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1224 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1225 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1226 this variable to 10000.
1231 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1232 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1234 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1236 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1237 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1238 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1239 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1240 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1241 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1242 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1243 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1244 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1247 Database revision tracking
1249 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1250 query parser and the new function
1251 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1253 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1255 Deprecated functions
1257 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1258 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1259 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1260 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1265 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1267 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1268 ===========================
1273 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1275 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1276 ===========================
1281 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1283 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1284 =========================
1286 Command-Line Interface
1287 ----------------------
1289 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1291 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1292 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1293 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1295 Path to gpg is now configurable
1297 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1298 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1303 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1305 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1310 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1315 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1320 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1322 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1323 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1325 New error logging facility
1327 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1328 output formerly printed to stderr.
1330 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1332 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1334 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1336 Fix for rounding of seconds
1341 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1343 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1344 documentation has been removed.
1346 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1348 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1349 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1354 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1355 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1356 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1361 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1362 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1363 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1364 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1365 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1366 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1369 git checkout config origin/config
1371 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1373 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1374 =========================
1379 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1380 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1381 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1382 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1383 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1384 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1385 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1387 Command-Line Interface
1388 ----------------------
1390 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1392 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1393 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1394 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1395 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1396 script callers should still check the return value.
1398 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1400 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1401 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1402 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1403 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1404 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1405 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1406 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1408 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1410 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1411 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1412 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1414 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1416 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1417 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1418 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1419 currently unmaintained.
1421 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1423 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1424 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1425 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1426 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1428 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1430 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1431 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1432 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1433 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1434 count of duplicate addresses.
1439 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1441 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1442 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1443 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1446 Improved handling of the unread tag
1448 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1449 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1450 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1451 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1452 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1453 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1454 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1456 Expanded default saved search settings
1458 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1459 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1461 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1463 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1464 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1465 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1467 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1469 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1470 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1471 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1472 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1473 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1474 the variable for details.
1479 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1481 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1482 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1483 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1484 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1486 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1488 Previously, library users were required to call
1489 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1490 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1491 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1492 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1493 too out of date for that API.
1495 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1497 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1498 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1499 atomic section will be aborted.
1501 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1502 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1504 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1506 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1507 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1508 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1509 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1510 messages into the same thread.
1515 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1516 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1517 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1518 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1519 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1520 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1525 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1526 from the config file. Use something like:
1530 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1531 "footer": "</body></html>",
1540 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1545 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1546 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1547 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1549 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1550 ===========================
1555 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1557 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1559 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1561 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1562 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1564 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1566 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1569 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1570 ===========================
1572 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1577 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1579 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1581 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1583 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1585 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1591 Use --quick when starting emacs
1593 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1595 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1597 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1599 Command-Line Interface
1600 ----------------------
1602 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1603 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1608 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1610 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1611 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1613 Fix for phrase indexing
1615 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1616 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1617 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1622 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1624 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1625 unintentionally removed.
1627 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1628 =========================
1633 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1634 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1635 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1636 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1637 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1638 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1639 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1640 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1641 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1647 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1649 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1650 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1651 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1652 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1653 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1654 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1655 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1656 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1658 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1660 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1661 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1662 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1663 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1666 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1668 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1669 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1670 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1671 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1672 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1673 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1674 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1679 Notmuch database upgrade
1681 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1682 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1683 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1684 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1685 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1686 released version of Notmuch before now.
1688 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1690 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1691 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1692 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1693 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1695 Message header parsing changes
1697 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1698 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1699 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1700 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1701 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1702 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1704 Command-Line Interface
1705 ----------------------
1707 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1709 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1711 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1713 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1715 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1717 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1718 user does not want it.
1720 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1722 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1723 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1724 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1725 support formatted output.
1727 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1729 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1730 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1731 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1739 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1740 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1741 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1742 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1743 `~/.emacs` with these.
1745 Changed format for saved searches
1747 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1748 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1749 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1750 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1753 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1754 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1755 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1756 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1758 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1759 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1760 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1762 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1763 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1764 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1765 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1766 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1768 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1770 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1771 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1772 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1774 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1776 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1777 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1778 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1779 message had been unread).
1781 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1782 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1783 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1784 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1786 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1787 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1788 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1790 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1791 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1792 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1793 to tags already present.
1797 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1798 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1799 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1800 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1801 these differ from each other.
1802 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1804 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1806 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1807 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1808 for these Emacs versions.
1810 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1812 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1813 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1815 Bug fixes for sender identities
1817 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1818 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1819 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1821 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1823 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1824 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1825 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1826 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1828 Reply pushes mark before signature
1830 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1831 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1832 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1834 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1836 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1837 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1843 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1844 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1846 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1847 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1848 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1849 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1851 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1852 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1853 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1854 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1855 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1857 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1859 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1860 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1862 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1863 =========================
1865 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1866 ---------------------------------------
1868 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1869 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1870 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1871 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1872 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1873 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1874 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1878 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1879 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1881 Command-Line Interface
1882 ----------------------
1884 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1886 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1887 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1888 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1889 print for each message.
1891 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1892 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1893 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1894 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1896 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1898 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1899 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1900 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1902 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1904 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1905 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1906 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1907 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1909 `notmuch compact` command
1911 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1912 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1913 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1914 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1915 move the compacted database into place.
1920 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1922 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1923 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1924 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1925 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1926 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1927 and multiple threads.
1929 Using `notmuch-tree`
1931 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1933 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1934 search, show and tree mode itself)
1936 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1939 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1940 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1942 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1944 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1945 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1946 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1947 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1948 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1949 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1950 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1952 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1954 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1955 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1956 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1957 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1958 thread when the search was performed.
1960 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1962 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1963 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1964 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1966 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1968 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1969 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1972 Built-in help improvements
1974 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1975 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1976 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1978 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1980 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1981 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1982 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1984 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1986 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1987 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1989 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1991 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1992 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1993 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1994 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1996 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1998 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1999 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2000 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2001 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2003 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2005 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2006 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2007 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2009 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2011 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2012 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2013 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2015 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2017 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2018 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2019 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2020 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2021 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2023 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2025 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2026 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2027 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2028 the body part of the message.
2033 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2034 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2035 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2037 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2038 =========================
2040 Command-Line Interface
2041 ----------------------
2043 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2045 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2046 folder and notmuch index.
2048 `notmuch count --batch` option
2050 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2051 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2053 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2055 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2056 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2057 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2060 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2062 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2063 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2064 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2065 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2066 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2069 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2071 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2072 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2074 Top level option to specify configuration file
2076 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2077 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2079 Bash command-line completion
2081 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2082 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2083 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2084 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2085 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2086 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2087 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2088 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2089 bash-completion package.
2091 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2096 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2098 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2099 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2100 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2101 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2102 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2103 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2104 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2105 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2107 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2109 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2110 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2111 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2113 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2115 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2116 previous thread in the search results.
2118 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2120 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2121 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2123 Faster search and show
2125 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2126 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2127 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2128 threads should show faster.
2132 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2133 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2134 in question was now removed from this release.
2139 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2140 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2145 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2147 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2148 ===========================
2153 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2155 Internal test framework changes
2156 -------------------------------
2158 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2159 being unimplemented.
2161 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2162 ===========================
2164 Internal test framework changes
2165 -------------------------------
2167 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2168 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2170 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2171 =========================
2176 Date range search support
2178 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2179 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2180 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2181 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2182 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2185 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2187 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2188 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2189 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2190 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2191 but may be removed in a future release.
2193 Command-Line Interface
2194 ----------------------
2196 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2198 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2199 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2201 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2203 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2204 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2205 officially deprecated.
2207 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2209 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2210 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2211 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2213 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2215 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2216 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2219 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2220 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2221 dump/restore format.
2223 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2225 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2226 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2227 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2229 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2231 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2232 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2233 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2235 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2237 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2238 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2239 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2240 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2245 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2247 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2248 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2249 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2250 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2252 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2254 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2255 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2256 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2257 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2258 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2259 the behavior of this, see
2260 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2261 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2263 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2264 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2265 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2267 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2269 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2270 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2273 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2275 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2276 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2277 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2278 simply displayed in place of the message.
2280 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2282 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2283 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2285 Improved text/calendar content handling
2287 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2288 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2289 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2290 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2292 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2294 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2295 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2296 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2297 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2299 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2301 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2302 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2303 for HTML email containing images.
2305 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2307 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2309 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2311 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2314 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2316 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2317 the point where it was.
2319 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2321 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2322 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2323 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2324 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2325 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2327 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2329 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2330 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2331 thread instead of the message id.
2333 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2334 -----------------------------
2336 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2337 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2338 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2339 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2340 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2341 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2342 further details and installation.
2347 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2349 Internal test framework changes
2350 -------------------------------
2352 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2354 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2355 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2356 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2357 can result in buggy behavior.
2359 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2360 =========================
2365 Maildir tag synchronization
2367 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2368 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2369 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2370 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2371 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2372 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2375 Command-Line Interface
2376 ----------------------
2378 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2379 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2380 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2381 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2382 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2388 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2390 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2392 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2393 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2394 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2396 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2398 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2399 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2400 span multiple lines.
2402 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2404 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2405 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2406 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2407 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2408 inside the result or message.
2410 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2412 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2413 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2415 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2416 user-specified formatting
2418 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2419 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2420 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2421 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2422 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2424 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2425 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2427 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2428 ===========================
2433 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2434 compilation error for this contrib package.
2436 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2437 ===========================
2442 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2444 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2445 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2446 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2447 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2449 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2450 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2453 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2454 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2455 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2456 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2459 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2461 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2464 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2465 =========================
2467 Command-Line Interface
2468 ----------------------
2472 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2473 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2474 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2475 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2477 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2478 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2479 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2480 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2484 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2485 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2487 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2488 tag in your query, for example:
2490 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2492 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2493 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2495 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2496 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2498 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2500 Raw show format changes
2502 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2503 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2504 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2505 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2506 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2507 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2508 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2509 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2511 Listing configuration items
2513 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2519 Changes to tagging interface
2521 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2522 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2523 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2524 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2525 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2526 for more information.
2528 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2529 may need to update in custom configurations.
2531 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2533 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2534 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2535 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2536 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2539 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2540 -----------------------------
2542 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2543 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2544 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2545 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2546 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2547 contrib/ from now on.
2552 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2553 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2555 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2556 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2558 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2559 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2560 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2562 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2563 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2565 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2566 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2567 returning the new database object or directory object.
2574 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2575 compatible with go 1.
2577 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2578 =========================
2580 Command-Line Interface
2581 ----------------------
2585 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2586 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2587 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2588 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2590 Mail store folder/file ignore
2592 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2593 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2594 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2596 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2597 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2599 Unified help and manual pages
2601 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2602 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2605 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2607 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2608 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2616 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2617 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2618 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2619 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2621 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2623 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2624 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2626 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2629 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2630 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2631 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2633 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2635 should be changed to:
2637 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2639 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2641 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2642 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2644 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2646 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2647 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2648 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2649 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2650 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2651 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2655 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2656 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2657 of Mailing List Archives.
2659 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2661 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2662 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2665 Show view archiving key binding changes
2667 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2668 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2669 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2670 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2671 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2674 Support text/calendar MIME type
2676 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2679 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2681 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2682 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2683 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2684 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2686 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2688 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2689 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2690 messages blue by default in the search view.
2694 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2695 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2702 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2705 Python bindings changes
2706 -----------------------
2708 Python 3.2 compatibility
2710 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2712 Added missing unicode conversions
2714 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2715 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2716 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2721 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2723 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2724 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2725 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2726 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2727 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2729 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2730 ===========================
2735 Fix error handling in python bindings
2737 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2738 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2739 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2740 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2742 Quote MML tags in replies
2744 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2745 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2746 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2747 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2748 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2749 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2750 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2751 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2753 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2754 =========================
2756 Command-Line Interface
2757 ----------------------
2761 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2762 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2763 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2764 importing new messages into the database.
2766 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2768 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2769 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2770 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2775 Automatic tag query optimization
2777 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2778 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2779 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2781 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2783 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2784 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2785 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2790 Reduction of memory leaks
2792 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2793 and fixed in this release.
2800 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2801 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2802 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2805 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2807 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2808 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2809 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2812 Improvements in saved search management
2814 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2815 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2816 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2818 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2820 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2821 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2822 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2824 New face for crypto parts headers
2826 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2827 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2828 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2831 Use space as default thousands separator
2833 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2834 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2835 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2837 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2838 buttonized id: links
2840 New function notmuch-show-advance
2842 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2843 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2844 be bound to SPC with:
2846 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2848 Various performance improvements
2853 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2854 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2857 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2858 ===========================
2863 Fix crash in python bindings
2865 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2866 for some, but not all users.
2868 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2869 ===========================
2874 Fix `--help` argument
2876 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2877 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2878 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2880 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2881 =========================
2883 New build and testing features
2884 ------------------------------
2886 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2887 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2888 prerequisites is improved.
2890 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2892 New command-line features
2893 -------------------------
2895 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2897 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2898 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2901 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2903 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2904 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2905 favour of using stdout.
2907 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2909 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2910 limit the number of results shown.
2912 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2914 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2915 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2918 New emacs UI features
2919 ---------------------
2921 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2923 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2924 starting with "tag:".
2926 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2928 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2929 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2931 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2933 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2935 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2937 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2938 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2943 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2945 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2947 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2948 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2949 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2950 requires a database rebuild:
2952 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2953 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2955 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2957 New collection of add-on tools
2958 ------------------------------
2960 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2961 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2962 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2965 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2967 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2968 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2969 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2971 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2972 ========================
2974 New, general features
2975 ---------------------
2977 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2979 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2980 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2981 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2982 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2983 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2990 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2991 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2993 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2997 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2998 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2999 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3002 Python bindings changes
3003 -----------------------
3005 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3007 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3008 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3009 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3010 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3011 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3012 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3014 Ruby bindings changes
3015 ---------------------
3017 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3018 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3019 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3020 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3025 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3027 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3028 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3030 Reply formatting cleanup
3031 ------------------------
3033 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3034 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3036 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3037 ========================
3039 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3041 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3042 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3043 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3044 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3047 Improved Build system portability
3049 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3050 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3051 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3053 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3055 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3057 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3059 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3060 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3061 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3063 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3064 ========================
3066 Vim interface improvements
3067 --------------------------
3069 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3071 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3072 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3073 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3074 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3075 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3077 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3079 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3080 * fix compose temp file name
3082 Python Bindings changes
3083 -----------------------
3085 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3087 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3088 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3090 Build-System improvements
3091 -------------------------
3093 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3095 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3098 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3099 ==========================
3104 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3106 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3107 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3109 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3110 =======================
3112 New, general features
3113 ---------------------
3115 Folder-based searching
3117 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3118 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3119 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3123 For example, one might use things such as:
3129 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3130 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3132 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3133 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3134 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3135 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3137 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3138 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3139 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3142 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3143 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3145 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3147 Support for PGP/MIME
3149 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3150 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3151 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3153 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3155 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3156 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3158 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3159 notmuch will receive these tags.
3161 New command-line features
3162 -------------------------
3164 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3166 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3167 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3169 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3171 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3172 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3173 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3175 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3177 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3178 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3179 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3180 which parts a signature part applies).
3182 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3184 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3185 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3186 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3187 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3188 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3191 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3193 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3194 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3195 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3196 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3197 by translating it internally to the new call.
3199 Performance improvements
3200 ------------------------
3202 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3204 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3205 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3206 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3208 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3209 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3211 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3213 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3214 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3215 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3217 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3218 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3219 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3220 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3222 Faster initial indexing
3224 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3225 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3226 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3228 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3230 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3231 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3232 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3233 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3235 New emacs-interface features
3236 ----------------------------
3238 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3240 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3241 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3242 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3243 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3244 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3245 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3247 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3249 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3250 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3251 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3252 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3254 User-selectable From address
3256 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3257 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3258 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3259 will prompt for the from address to use.
3261 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3262 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3263 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3265 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3266 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3267 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3270 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3272 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3273 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3275 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3277 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3279 ----- Original Message -----
3281 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3282 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3283 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3284 citations work much like conventional citations.
3286 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3288 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3289 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3290 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3291 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3292 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3294 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3295 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3297 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3299 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3300 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3301 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3303 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3305 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3306 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3307 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3308 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3309 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3311 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3313 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3316 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3318 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3320 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3322 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3325 Vim interface improvements
3326 --------------------------
3328 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3330 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3331 * Implementing archive in show view
3332 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3333 * Add delete commands
3336 Bindings improvements
3337 ---------------------
3339 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3341 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3342 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3344 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3346 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3350 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3351 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3352 `list(Messages)` works now
3353 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3355 These allow, for example:
3357 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3359 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3361 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3367 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3369 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3372 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3374 New build-system features
3375 -------------------------
3377 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3379 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3380 the configure script from some other directory:
3387 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3389 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3390 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3391 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3392 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3393 manual invocation of configure.
3395 New test-suite feature
3396 ----------------------
3398 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3400 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3401 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3402 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3403 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3404 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3407 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3409 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3410 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3411 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3412 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3413 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3414 are updated to take advantage of this.
3416 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3418 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3419 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3420 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3421 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3427 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3429 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3430 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3431 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3433 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3435 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3437 to:user@elsewhere.com
3439 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3441 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3443 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3445 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3446 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3447 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3450 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3451 from the Received headers in some cases
3453 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3454 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3456 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3458 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3460 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3462 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3463 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3464 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3466 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3467 -------------------------
3469 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3471 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3472 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3473 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3475 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3477 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3478 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3479 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3482 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3484 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3485 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3486 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3487 fixed to avoid this bug.
3489 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3491 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3492 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3494 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3495 ========================
3497 New, general features
3498 ---------------------
3500 Maildir-flag synchronization
3502 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3503 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3512 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3514 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3515 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3516 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3517 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3519 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3520 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3521 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3522 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3525 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3527 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3528 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3529 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3531 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3532 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3534 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3535 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3537 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3538 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3539 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3541 New library features
3542 --------------------
3544 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3546 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3547 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3548 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3549 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3551 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3552 message with the new function:
3554 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3556 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3557 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3558 over all available filenames for a given message.
3560 New command-line features
3561 -------------------------
3563 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3565 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3566 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3567 access to the mail store itself.
3569 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3570 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3571 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3572 name of a script containing:
3574 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3576 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3577 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3583 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3585 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3587 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3589 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3590 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3591 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3592 now produces nothing).
3594 Emacs interface improvements
3595 ----------------------------
3597 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3599 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3601 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3603 Display current thread subject in a header line
3605 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3607 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3609 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3610 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3611 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3612 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3613 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3614 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3615 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3617 Vim interface improvements
3618 --------------------------
3620 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3622 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3623 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3629 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3631 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3632 ========================
3634 New command-line features
3635 -------------------------
3637 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3639 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3640 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3641 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3643 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3644 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3645 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3646 scripts. For example:
3648 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3649 <operations-on> "$file"
3652 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3654 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3655 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3656 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3657 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3658 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3659 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3661 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3663 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3664 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3665 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3666 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3668 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3670 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3671 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3672 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3673 default rather than Bcc.
3675 New library features
3676 --------------------
3678 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3680 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3681 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3686 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3688 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3689 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3690 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3691 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3692 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3693 notmuch customize interface.
3695 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3697 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3698 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3699 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3700 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3702 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3704 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3705 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3706 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3707 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3709 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3711 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3712 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3713 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3714 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3715 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3716 notmuch customize interface.
3718 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3720 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3721 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3722 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3723 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3724 notmuch customize interface.
3726 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3728 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3729 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3730 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3731 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3734 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3736 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3737 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3738 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3741 New build-system features
3742 -------------------------
3744 Various portability fixes have been applied
3746 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3747 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3748 more portable than ever before.
3750 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3752 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3753 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3754 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3756 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3757 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3758 automatically run ldconfig.
3760 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3761 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3762 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3764 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3765 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3766 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3767 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3769 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3771 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3772 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3773 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3774 used in the resulting Makefile.
3776 New test-suite features
3777 -----------------------
3779 New modularization of test suite
3781 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3782 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3783 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3784 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3785 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3786 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3787 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3788 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3790 New testing of emacs interface
3792 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3793 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3794 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3795 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3796 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3797 database via the FCC setting.
3802 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3804 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3805 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3806 persistent error of the form:
3808 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3810 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3811 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3813 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3815 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3816 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3817 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3819 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3821 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3822 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3823 parsing the notmuch results).
3825 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3827 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3830 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3831 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3832 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3837 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3839 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3840 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3841 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3842 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3843 the emacs interface.
3845 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3847 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3848 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3849 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3851 Python-binding fixes
3852 --------------------
3854 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3856 Debian-specific fixes
3857 ---------------------
3859 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3861 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3862 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3863 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3866 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3867 ==========================
3872 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3874 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3875 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3876 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3877 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3879 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3881 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3882 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3883 want notmuch to crash.
3888 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3890 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3891 directory does not exist
3896 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3898 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3899 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3901 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3902 ========================
3904 New command-line features
3905 -------------------------
3907 User-configurable tags for new messages
3909 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3910 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3911 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3912 to specify this value.
3914 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3916 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3917 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3918 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3920 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3922 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3923 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3925 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3927 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3928 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3929 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3930 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3931 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3934 Indication of author names that match a search
3936 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3937 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3938 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3939 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3940 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3941 messages in the thread are listed first.
3943 New: Python bindings
3944 --------------------
3946 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3947 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3948 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3949 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3951 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3952 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3953 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3956 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3957 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3958 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3960 Emacs interface improvements
3961 ----------------------------
3963 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3965 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3966 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3967 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3968 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3969 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3970 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3971 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3972 but without any of the disadvantages).
3974 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3975 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3976 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3979 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3980 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3981 instead running something like:
3983 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3985 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3986 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3987 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3990 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3992 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3993 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3994 tweaked by the user.
3996 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3997 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3998 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4001 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4002 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4003 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4006 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4008 This support currently relies on an external program,
4009 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4010 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4011 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4012 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4013 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4016 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4017 notmuch) is available via:
4019 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4021 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4022 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4023 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4025 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4027 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4028 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4029 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4030 making this automatic in a future release.
4032 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4034 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4035 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4036 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4037 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4038 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4039 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4042 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4044 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4045 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4046 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4048 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4050 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4051 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4052 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4054 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4055 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4056 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4057 other representation.
4059 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4060 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4063 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4065 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4066 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4067 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4069 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4070 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4071 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4073 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4075 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4076 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4077 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4078 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4079 to display the search result.
4081 More flexible handling of header visibility
4083 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4084 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4085 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4086 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4087 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4088 with the 'h' keybinding.
4090 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4091 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4092 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4094 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4096 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4098 Customizable formatting of search results
4100 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4101 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4102 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4104 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4106 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4108 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4113 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4115 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4116 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4117 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4118 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4124 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4126 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4127 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4129 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4131 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4132 accept are now all accepted.
4137 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4139 Better display of output from failed tests
4141 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4142 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4144 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4145 ========================
4147 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4148 detailed release notes this time!
4150 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4151 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4153 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4154 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4155 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4156 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4163 Better guessing of From: header
4165 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4166 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4167 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4168 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4169 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4172 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4174 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4175 guaranteed to match all messages.
4177 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4179 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4180 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4181 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4182 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4183 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4186 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4189 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4190 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4191 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4192 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4197 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4199 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4200 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4201 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4202 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4204 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4206 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4208 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4209 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4210 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4212 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4214 Previously, the user might see:
4216 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4220 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4222 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4223 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4224 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4225 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4227 Emacs client features
4228 ---------------------
4230 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4232 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4233 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4234 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4235 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4236 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4238 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4241 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4242 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4243 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4244 search with the '*' binding.
4246 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4248 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4249 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4252 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4254 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4255 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4256 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4258 Build-system features
4259 ---------------------
4261 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4263 Add support to configure for many standard options
4265 We include actual support for:
4267 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4269 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4271 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4272 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4274 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4275 separate "make install-emacs"
4277 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4279 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4280 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4281 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4283 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4286 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4287 ========================
4289 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4291 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4292 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4294 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4295 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4296 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4297 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4298 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4299 tags from messages in a thread.
4306 indent-tabs-mode: nil