1 Notmuch 0.23 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
9 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
10 =========================
17 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
18 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
20 Limited support for S/MIME messages
22 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
23 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
24 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
29 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
30 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
31 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
33 Command Line Interface
34 ----------------------
36 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
38 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
43 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
48 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
50 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
51 parts are now included in replies.
53 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
54 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
55 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
56 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
58 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
60 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
62 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
64 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
65 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
66 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
67 forwards only the current message.
69 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
71 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
72 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
73 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
74 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
75 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
76 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
77 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
78 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
81 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
82 longer generate empty buffers
84 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
85 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
86 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
87 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
88 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
90 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
92 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
95 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
97 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
100 Address completion improvements
102 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
103 you previously configured one, customize the variable
104 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
105 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
106 interactive address completion.
108 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
110 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
111 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
112 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
117 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
118 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
119 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
125 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
126 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
127 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
128 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
129 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
130 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
132 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
133 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
134 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
135 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
136 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
137 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
139 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
140 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
142 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
143 =========================
148 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
151 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
153 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
154 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
155 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
157 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
158 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
160 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
161 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
162 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
164 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
166 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
167 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
168 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
169 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
170 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
171 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
176 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
177 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
180 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
183 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
185 Command Line Interface
186 ----------------------
188 Database revision tracking
190 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
191 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
192 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
193 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
195 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
197 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
198 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
199 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
200 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
201 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
202 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
203 manual page for further information.
208 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
210 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
211 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
213 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
215 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
216 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
217 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
219 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
221 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
223 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
224 customization as well.
226 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
228 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
230 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
232 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
234 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
235 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
236 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
237 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
239 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
241 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
242 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
243 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
244 this variable to 10000.
249 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
250 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
252 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
254 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
255 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
256 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
257 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
258 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
259 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
260 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
261 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
262 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
265 Database revision tracking
267 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
268 query parser and the new function
269 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
271 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
275 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
276 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
277 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
278 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
283 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
285 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
286 ===========================
291 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
293 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
294 ===========================
299 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
301 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
302 =========================
304 Command-Line Interface
305 ----------------------
307 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
309 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
310 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
311 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
313 Path to gpg is now configurable
315 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
316 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
321 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
323 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
328 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
333 Support messages without Message-IDs.
338 Undeprecate single message mboxes
340 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
341 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
343 New error logging facility
345 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
346 output formerly printed to stderr.
348 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
350 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
352 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
354 Fix for rounding of seconds
359 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
361 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
362 docmumentation has been removed.
364 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
366 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
367 some material from the relicensed wiki.
372 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
373 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
374 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
379 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
380 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
381 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
382 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
383 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
384 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
387 git checkout config origin/config
389 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
391 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
392 =========================
397 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
398 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
399 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
400 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
401 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
402 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
403 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
405 Command-Line Interface
406 ----------------------
408 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
410 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
411 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
412 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
413 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
414 script callers should still check the return value.
416 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
418 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
419 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
420 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
421 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
422 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
423 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
424 and returning success even if indexing fails).
426 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
428 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
429 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
430 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
432 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
434 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
435 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
436 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
437 currently unmaintained.
439 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
441 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
442 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
443 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
444 have at least `N` files associated with them.
446 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
448 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
449 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
450 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
451 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
452 count of duplicate addresses.
457 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
459 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
460 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
461 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
464 Improved handling of the unread tag
466 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
467 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
468 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
469 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
470 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
471 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
472 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
474 Expanded default saved search settings
476 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
477 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
479 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
481 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
482 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
483 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
485 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
487 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
488 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
489 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
490 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
491 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
492 the variable for details.
497 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
499 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
500 Representing these independently of the database version number will
501 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
502 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
504 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
506 Previously, library users were required to call
507 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
508 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
509 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
510 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
511 too out of date for that API.
513 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
515 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
516 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
517 atomic section will be aborted.
519 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
520 `notmuch_database_destroy`
522 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
524 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
525 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
526 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
527 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
528 messages into the same thread.
533 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
534 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
535 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
536 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
537 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
538 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
543 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
544 from the config file. Use something like:
548 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
549 "footer": "</body></html>",
558 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
563 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
564 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
565 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
567 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
568 ===========================
573 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
575 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
577 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
579 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
580 structure for signatures changed slightly.
582 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
584 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
587 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
588 ===========================
590 This is a bug fix and portability release.
595 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
597 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
599 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
601 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
603 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
609 Use --quick when starting emacs
611 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
613 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
615 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
617 Command-Line Interface
618 ----------------------
620 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
621 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
626 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
628 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
629 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
631 Fix for phrase indexing
633 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
634 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
635 will affect only newly indexed messages.
640 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
642 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
643 unintentionally removed.
645 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
646 =========================
651 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
652 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
653 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
654 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
655 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
656 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
657 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
658 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
659 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
665 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
667 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
668 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
669 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
670 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
671 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
672 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
673 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
674 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
676 There is a new `path:` search prefix
678 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
679 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
680 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
681 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
684 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
686 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
687 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
688 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
689 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
690 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
691 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
692 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
697 Notmuch database upgrade
699 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
700 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
701 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
702 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
703 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
704 released version of Notmuch before now.
706 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
708 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
709 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
710 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
711 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
713 Message header parsing changes
715 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
716 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
717 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
718 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
719 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
720 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
722 Command-Line Interface
723 ----------------------
725 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
727 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
729 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
731 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
733 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
735 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
736 user does not want it.
738 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
740 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
741 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
742 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
743 support formatted output.
745 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
747 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
748 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
749 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
757 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
758 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
759 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
760 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
761 `~/.emacs` with these.
763 Changed format for saved searches
765 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
766 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
767 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
768 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
771 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
772 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
773 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
774 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
776 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
777 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
778 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
780 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
781 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
782 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
783 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
784 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
786 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
788 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
789 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
790 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
792 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
794 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
795 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
796 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
797 message had been unread).
799 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
800 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
801 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
802 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
804 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
805 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
806 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
808 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
809 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
810 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
811 to tags already present.
815 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
816 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
817 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
818 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
819 these differ from each other.
820 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
822 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
824 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
825 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
826 for these Emacs versions.
828 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
830 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
831 newlines before calling notmuch count.
833 Bug fixes for sender identities
835 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
836 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
837 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
839 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
841 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
842 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
843 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
844 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
846 Reply pushes mark before signature
848 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
849 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
850 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
852 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
854 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
855 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
861 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
862 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
864 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
865 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
866 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
867 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
869 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
870 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
871 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
872 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
873 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
875 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
877 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
878 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
880 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
881 =========================
883 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
884 ---------------------------------------
886 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
887 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
888 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
889 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
890 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
891 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
892 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
896 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
897 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
899 Command-Line Interface
900 ----------------------
902 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
904 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
905 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
906 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
907 print for each message.
909 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
910 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
911 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
912 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
914 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
916 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
917 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
918 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
920 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
922 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
923 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
924 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
925 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
927 `notmuch compact` command
929 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
930 functionality through a more convenient interface than
931 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
932 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
933 move the compacted database into place.
938 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
940 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
941 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
942 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
943 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
944 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
945 and multiple threads.
949 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
951 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
952 search, show and tree mode itself)
954 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
957 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
958 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
960 Customising `notmuch-tree`
962 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
963 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
964 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
965 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
966 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
967 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
968 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
970 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
972 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
973 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
974 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
975 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
976 thread when the search was performed.
978 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
980 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
981 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
982 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
984 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
986 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
987 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
990 Built-in help improvements
992 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
993 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
994 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
996 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
998 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
999 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1000 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1002 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1004 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1005 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1007 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1009 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1010 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1011 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1012 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1014 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1016 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1017 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1018 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1019 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1021 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1023 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1024 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1025 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1027 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1029 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1030 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1031 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1033 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1035 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1036 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1037 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1038 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1039 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1041 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1043 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1044 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1045 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1046 the body part of the message.
1051 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1052 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1053 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1055 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1056 =========================
1058 Command-Line Interface
1059 ----------------------
1061 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1063 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1064 folder and notmuch index.
1066 `notmuch count --batch` option
1068 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1069 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1071 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1073 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1074 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1075 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1078 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1080 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1081 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1082 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1083 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1084 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1087 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1089 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1090 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1092 Top level option to specify configuration file
1094 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1095 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1097 Bash command-line completion
1099 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1100 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1101 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1102 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1103 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1104 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1105 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1106 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1107 bash-completion package.
1109 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1114 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1116 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1117 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1118 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1119 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1120 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1121 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1122 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1123 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1125 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1127 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1128 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1129 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1131 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1133 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1134 previous thread in the search results.
1136 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1138 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1139 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1141 Faster search and show
1143 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1144 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1145 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1146 threads should show faster.
1150 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1151 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1152 in question was now removed from this release.
1157 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1158 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1163 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1165 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1166 ===========================
1171 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1173 Internal test framework changes
1174 -------------------------------
1176 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1177 being unimplemented.
1179 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1180 ===========================
1182 Internal test framework changes
1183 -------------------------------
1185 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1186 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1188 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1189 =========================
1194 Date range search support
1196 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1197 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1198 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1199 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1200 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1203 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1205 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1206 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1207 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1208 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1209 but may be removed in a future release.
1211 Command-Line Interface
1212 ----------------------
1214 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1216 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1217 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1219 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1221 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1222 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1223 officially deprecated.
1225 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1227 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1228 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1229 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1231 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1233 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1234 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1237 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1238 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1239 dump/restore format.
1241 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1243 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1244 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1245 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1247 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1249 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1250 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1251 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1253 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1255 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1256 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1257 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1258 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1263 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1265 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1266 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1267 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1268 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1270 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1272 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1273 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1274 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1275 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1276 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1277 the behavior of this, see
1278 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1279 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1281 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1282 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1283 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1285 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1287 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1288 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1291 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1293 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1294 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1295 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1296 simply displayed in place of the message.
1298 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1300 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1301 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1303 Improved text/calendar content handling
1305 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1306 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1307 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1308 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1310 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1312 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1313 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1314 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1315 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1317 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1319 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1320 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1321 for HTML email containing images.
1323 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1325 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1327 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1329 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1332 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1334 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1335 the point where it was.
1337 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1339 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1340 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1341 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1342 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1343 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1345 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1347 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1348 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1349 thread instead of the message id.
1351 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1352 -----------------------------
1354 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1355 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1356 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1357 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1358 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1359 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1360 further details and installation.
1365 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1367 Internal test framework changes
1368 -------------------------------
1370 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1372 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1373 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1374 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1375 can result in buggy behavior.
1377 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1378 =========================
1383 Maildir tag synchronization
1385 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1386 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1387 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1388 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1389 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1390 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1393 Command-Line Interface
1394 ----------------------
1396 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1397 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1398 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1399 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1400 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1406 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1408 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1410 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1411 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1412 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1414 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1416 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1417 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1418 span multiple lines.
1420 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1422 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1423 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1424 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1425 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1426 inside the result or message.
1428 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1430 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1431 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1433 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1434 user-specified formatting
1436 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1437 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1438 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1439 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1440 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1442 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1443 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1445 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1446 ===========================
1451 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1452 compilation error for this contrib package.
1454 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1455 ===========================
1460 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1462 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1463 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1464 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1465 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1467 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1468 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1471 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1472 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1473 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1474 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1477 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1479 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1482 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1483 =========================
1485 Command-Line Interface
1486 ----------------------
1490 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1491 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1492 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1493 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1495 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1496 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1497 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1498 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1502 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1503 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1505 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1506 tag in your query, for example:
1508 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1510 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1511 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1513 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1514 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1516 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1518 Raw show format changes
1520 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1521 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1522 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1523 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1524 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1525 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1526 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1527 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1529 Listing configuration items
1531 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1537 Changes to tagging interface
1539 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1540 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1541 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1542 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1543 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1544 for more information.
1546 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1547 may need to update in custom configurations.
1549 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1551 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1552 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1553 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1554 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1557 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1558 -----------------------------
1560 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1561 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1562 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1563 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1564 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1565 contrib/ from now on.
1570 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1571 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1573 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1574 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1576 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1577 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1578 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1580 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1581 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1583 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1584 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1585 returning the new database object or directory object.
1592 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1593 compatible with go 1.
1595 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1596 =========================
1598 Command-Line Interface
1599 ----------------------
1603 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1604 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1605 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1606 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1608 Mail store folder/file ignore
1610 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1611 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1612 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1614 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1615 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1617 Unified help and manual pages
1619 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1620 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1623 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1625 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1626 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1634 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1635 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1636 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1637 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1639 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1641 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1642 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1644 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1647 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1648 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1649 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1651 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1653 should be changed to:
1655 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1657 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1659 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1660 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1662 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1664 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1665 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1666 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1667 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1668 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1669 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1673 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1674 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1675 of Mailing List Archives.
1677 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1679 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1680 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1683 Show view archiving key binding changes
1685 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1686 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1687 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1688 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1689 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1692 Support text/calendar MIME type
1694 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1697 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1699 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1700 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1701 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1702 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1704 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1706 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1707 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1708 messages blue by default in the search view.
1712 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1713 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1720 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1723 Python bindings changes
1724 -----------------------
1726 Python 3.2 compatibility
1728 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1730 Added missing unicode conversions
1732 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1733 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1734 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1739 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1741 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1742 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1743 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1744 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1745 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1747 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1748 ===========================
1753 Fix error handling in python bindings
1755 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1756 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1757 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1758 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1760 Quote MML tags in replies
1762 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1763 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1764 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1765 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1766 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1767 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1768 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1769 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1771 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1772 =========================
1774 Command-Line Interface
1775 ----------------------
1779 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1780 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1781 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1782 importing new messages into the database.
1784 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1786 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1787 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1788 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1793 Automatic tag query optimization
1795 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1796 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1797 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1799 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1801 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1802 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1803 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1808 Reduction of memory leaks
1810 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1811 and fixed in this release.
1818 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1819 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1820 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1823 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1825 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1826 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1827 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1830 Improvements in saved search management
1832 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1833 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1834 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1836 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1838 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1839 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1840 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1842 New face for crypto parts headers
1844 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1845 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1846 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1849 Use space as default thousands separator
1851 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1852 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1853 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1855 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1856 buttonized id: links
1858 New function notmuch-show-advance
1860 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1861 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1862 be bound to SPC with:
1864 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1866 Various performance improvements
1871 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1872 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1875 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1876 ===========================
1881 Fix crash in python bindings
1883 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1884 for some, but not all users.
1886 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1887 ===========================
1892 Fix `--help` argument
1894 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1895 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1896 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1898 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1899 =========================
1901 New build and testing features
1902 ------------------------------
1904 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1905 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1906 prerequisites is improved.
1908 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1910 New command-line features
1911 -------------------------
1913 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1915 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1916 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1919 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1921 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1922 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1923 favour of using stdout.
1925 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1927 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1928 limit the number of results shown.
1930 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1932 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1933 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1936 New emacs UI features
1937 ---------------------
1939 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1941 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1942 starting with "tag:".
1944 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1946 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1947 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1949 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1951 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1953 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1955 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1956 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1961 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1963 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1965 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1966 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1967 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1968 requires a database rebuild:
1970 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1971 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1973 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1975 New collection of add-on tools
1976 ------------------------------
1978 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1979 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1980 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1983 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1985 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1986 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1987 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1989 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1990 ========================
1992 New, general features
1993 ---------------------
1995 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1997 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1998 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1999 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2000 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2001 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2008 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2009 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2011 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2015 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2016 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2017 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2020 Python bindings changes
2021 -----------------------
2023 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2025 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2026 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2027 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2028 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2029 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2030 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2032 Ruby bindings changes
2033 ---------------------
2035 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2036 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2037 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2038 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2043 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2045 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2046 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2048 Reply formatting cleanup
2049 ------------------------
2051 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2052 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2054 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2055 ========================
2057 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2059 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2060 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2061 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2062 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2065 Improved Build system portability
2067 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2068 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2069 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2071 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2073 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2075 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2077 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2078 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2079 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2081 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2082 ========================
2084 Vim interface improvements
2085 --------------------------
2087 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2089 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2090 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2091 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2092 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2093 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2095 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2097 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2098 * fix compose temp file name
2100 Python Bindings changes
2101 -----------------------
2103 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2105 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2106 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2108 Build-System improvements
2109 -------------------------
2111 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2113 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2116 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2117 ==========================
2122 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2124 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2125 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2127 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2128 =======================
2130 New, general features
2131 ---------------------
2133 Folder-based searching
2135 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2136 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2137 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2141 For example, one might use things such as:
2147 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2148 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2150 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2151 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2152 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2153 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2155 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2156 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2157 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2160 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2161 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2163 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2165 Support for PGP/MIME
2167 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2168 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2169 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2171 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2173 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2174 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2176 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2177 notmuch will receive these tags.
2179 New command-line features
2180 -------------------------
2182 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2184 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2185 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2187 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2189 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2190 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2191 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2193 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2195 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2196 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2197 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2198 which parts a signature part applies).
2200 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2202 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2203 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2204 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2205 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2206 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2209 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2211 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2212 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2213 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2214 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2215 by translating it internally to the new call.
2217 Performance improvements
2218 ------------------------
2220 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2222 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2223 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2224 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2226 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2227 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2229 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2231 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2232 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2233 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2235 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2236 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2237 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2238 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2240 Faster initial indexing
2242 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2243 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2244 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2246 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2248 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2249 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2250 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2251 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2253 New emacs-interface features
2254 ----------------------------
2256 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2258 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2259 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2260 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2261 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2262 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2263 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2265 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2267 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2268 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2269 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2270 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2272 User-selectable From address
2274 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2275 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2276 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2277 will prompt for the from address to use.
2279 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2280 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2281 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2283 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2284 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2285 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2288 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2290 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2291 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2293 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2295 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2297 ----- Original Message -----
2299 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2300 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2301 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2302 citations work much like conventional citations.
2304 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2306 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2307 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2308 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2309 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2310 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2312 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2313 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2315 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2317 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2318 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2319 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2321 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2323 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2324 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2325 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2326 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2327 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2329 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2331 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2334 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2336 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2338 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2340 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2343 Vim interface improvements
2344 --------------------------
2346 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2348 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2349 * Implementing archive in show view
2350 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2351 * Add delete commands
2354 Bindings improvements
2355 ---------------------
2357 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2359 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2360 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2362 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2364 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2368 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2369 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2370 `list(Messages)` works now
2371 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2373 These allow, for example:
2375 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2377 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2379 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2385 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2387 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2390 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2392 New build-system features
2393 -------------------------
2395 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2397 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2398 the configure script from some other directory:
2405 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2407 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2408 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2409 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2410 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2411 manual invocation of configure.
2413 New test-suite feature
2414 ----------------------
2416 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2418 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2419 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2420 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2421 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2422 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2425 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2427 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2428 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2429 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2430 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2431 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2432 are updated to take advantage of this.
2434 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2436 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2437 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2438 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2439 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2445 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2447 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2448 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2449 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2451 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2453 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2455 to:user@elsewhere.com
2457 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2459 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2461 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2463 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2464 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2465 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2468 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2469 from the Received headers in some cases
2471 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2472 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2474 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2476 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2478 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2480 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2481 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2482 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2484 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2485 -------------------------
2487 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2489 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2490 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2491 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2493 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2495 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2496 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2497 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2500 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2502 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2503 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2504 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2505 fixed to avoid this bug.
2507 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2509 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2510 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2512 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2513 ========================
2515 New, general features
2516 ---------------------
2518 Maildir-flag synchronization
2520 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2521 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2530 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2532 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2533 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2534 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2535 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2537 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2538 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2539 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2540 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2543 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2545 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2546 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2547 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2549 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2550 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2552 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2553 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2555 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2556 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2557 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2559 New library features
2560 --------------------
2562 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2564 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2565 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2566 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2567 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2569 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2570 message with the new function:
2572 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2574 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2575 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2576 over all available filenames for a given message.
2578 New command-line features
2579 -------------------------
2581 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2583 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2584 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2585 access to the mail store itself.
2587 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2588 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2589 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2590 name of a script containing:
2592 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2594 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2595 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2601 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2603 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2605 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2607 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2608 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2609 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2610 now produces nothing).
2612 Emacs interface improvements
2613 ----------------------------
2615 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2617 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2619 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2621 Display current thread subject in a header line
2623 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2625 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2627 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2628 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2629 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2630 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2631 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2632 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2633 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2635 Vim interface improvements
2636 --------------------------
2638 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2640 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2641 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2647 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2649 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2650 ========================
2652 New command-line features
2653 -------------------------
2655 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2657 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2658 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2659 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2661 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2662 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2663 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2664 scripts. For example:
2666 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2667 <operations-on> "$file"
2670 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2672 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2673 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2674 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2675 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2676 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2677 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2679 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2681 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2682 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2683 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2684 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2686 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2688 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2689 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2690 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2691 default rather than Bcc.
2693 New library features
2694 --------------------
2696 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2698 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2699 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2704 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2706 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2707 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2708 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2709 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2710 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2711 notmuch customize interface.
2713 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2715 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2716 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2717 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2718 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2720 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2722 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2723 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2724 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2725 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2727 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2729 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2730 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2731 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2732 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2733 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2734 notmuch customize interface.
2736 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2738 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2739 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2740 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2741 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2742 notmuch customize interface.
2744 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2746 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2747 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2748 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2749 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2752 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2754 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2755 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2756 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2759 New build-system features
2760 -------------------------
2762 Various portability fixes have been applied
2764 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2765 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2766 more portable than ever before.
2768 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2770 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2771 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2772 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2774 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2775 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2776 automatically run ldconfig.
2778 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2779 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2780 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2782 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2783 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2784 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2785 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2787 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2789 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2790 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2791 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2792 used in the resulting Makefile.
2794 New test-suite features
2795 -----------------------
2797 New modularization of test suite
2799 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2800 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2801 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2802 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2803 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2804 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2805 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2806 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2808 New testing of emacs interface
2810 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2811 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2812 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2813 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2814 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2815 database via the FCC setting.
2820 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2822 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2823 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2824 persistent error of the form:
2826 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2828 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2829 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2831 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2833 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2834 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2835 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2837 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2839 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2840 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2841 parsing the notmuch results).
2843 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2845 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2848 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2849 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2850 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2855 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2857 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2858 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2859 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2860 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2861 the emacs interface.
2863 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2865 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2866 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2867 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2869 Python-binding fixes
2870 --------------------
2872 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2874 Debian-specific fixes
2875 ---------------------
2877 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2879 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2880 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2881 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2884 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2885 ==========================
2890 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2892 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2893 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2894 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2895 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2897 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2899 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2900 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2901 want notmuch to crash.
2906 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2908 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2909 directory does not exist
2914 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2916 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2917 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2919 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2920 ========================
2922 New command-line features
2923 -------------------------
2925 User-configurable tags for new messages
2927 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2928 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2929 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2930 to specify this value.
2932 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2934 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2935 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2936 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2938 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2940 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2941 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2943 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2945 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2946 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2947 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2948 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2949 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2952 Indication of author names that match a search
2954 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2955 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2956 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2957 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2958 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2959 messages in the thread are listed first.
2961 New: Python bindings
2962 --------------------
2964 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2965 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2966 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2967 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2969 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2970 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2971 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2974 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2975 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2976 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2978 Emacs interface improvements
2979 ----------------------------
2981 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2983 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2984 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2985 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2986 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2987 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2988 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2989 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2990 but without any of the disadvantages).
2992 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2993 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2994 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2997 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2998 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2999 instead running something like:
3001 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3003 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3004 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3005 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3008 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3010 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3011 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3012 tweaked by the user.
3014 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3015 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3016 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3019 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3020 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3021 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3024 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3026 This support currently relies on an external program,
3027 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3028 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3029 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3030 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3031 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3034 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3035 notmuch) is available via:
3037 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3039 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3040 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3041 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3043 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3045 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3046 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3047 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3048 making this automatic in a future release.
3050 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3052 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3053 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3054 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3055 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3056 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3057 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3060 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3062 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3063 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3064 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3066 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3068 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3069 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3070 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3072 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3073 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3074 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3075 other representation.
3077 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3078 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3081 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3083 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3084 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3085 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3087 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3088 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3089 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3091 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3093 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3094 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3095 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3096 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3097 to display the search result.
3099 More flexible handling of header visibility
3101 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3102 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3103 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3104 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3105 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3106 with the 'h' keybinding.
3108 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3109 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3110 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3112 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3114 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3116 Customizable formatting of search results
3118 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3119 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3120 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3122 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3124 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3126 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3131 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3133 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3134 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3135 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3136 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3142 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3144 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3145 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3147 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3149 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3150 accept are now all accepted.
3155 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3157 Better display of output from failed tests
3159 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3160 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3162 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3163 ========================
3165 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3166 detailed release notes this time!
3168 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3169 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3171 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3172 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3173 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3174 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3181 Better guessing of From: header
3183 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3184 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3185 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3186 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3187 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3190 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3192 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3193 guaranteed to match all messages.
3195 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3197 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3198 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3199 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3200 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3201 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3204 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3207 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3208 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3209 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3210 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3215 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3217 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3218 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3219 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3220 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3222 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3224 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3226 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3227 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3228 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3230 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3232 Previously, the user might see:
3234 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3238 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3240 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3241 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3242 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3243 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3245 Emacs client features
3246 ---------------------
3248 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3250 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3251 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3252 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3253 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3254 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3256 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3259 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3260 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3261 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3262 search with the '*' binding.
3264 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3266 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3267 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3270 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3272 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3273 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3274 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3276 Build-system features
3277 ---------------------
3279 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3281 Add support to configure for many standard options
3283 We include actual support for:
3285 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3287 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3289 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3290 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3292 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3293 separate "make install-emacs"
3295 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3297 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3298 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3299 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3301 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3304 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3305 ========================
3307 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3309 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3310 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3312 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3313 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3314 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3315 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3316 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3317 tags from messages in a thread.
3324 indent-tabs-mode: nil