1 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
2 =========================
7 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
8 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
9 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
10 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
11 s-expression query support.
16 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
21 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
23 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
25 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
27 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
29 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
30 ===========================
35 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
37 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
38 ===========================
43 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
44 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
47 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
48 =========================
53 Correct documentation about transactions.
55 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
56 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
58 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
63 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
69 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
70 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
71 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
73 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
75 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
77 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
79 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
81 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
83 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
86 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
91 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
92 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
93 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
94 split, following an old library API change.
99 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
104 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
106 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
108 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
109 ===========================
114 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
117 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
120 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
121 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
126 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
128 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
129 ===========================
134 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
140 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
145 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
150 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
155 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
156 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
158 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
159 ===========================
164 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
165 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
166 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
168 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
169 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
170 database in a pre-new hook.
172 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
173 default worked only in "notmuch config".
178 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
179 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
181 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
182 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
183 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
185 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
186 =========================
191 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
192 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
193 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
194 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
195 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
196 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
197 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
198 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
199 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
200 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
201 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
206 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
207 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
209 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
210 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
211 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
212 - `notmuch_config_get`
214 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
215 now exposed (and generalized).
217 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
218 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
219 session has been fixed.
221 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
222 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
227 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
228 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
230 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
231 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
236 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
237 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
238 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
239 when prompting for senders.
241 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
242 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
245 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
247 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
249 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
250 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
251 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
252 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
253 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
254 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
255 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
257 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
258 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
260 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
261 you should change it to:
262 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
264 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
265 ===========================
270 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
275 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
277 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
278 ===========================
283 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
288 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
293 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
295 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
296 ===========================
301 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
302 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
304 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
305 ===========================
310 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
315 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
316 with a C++ header for some compilers.
318 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
320 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
321 =========================
326 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
327 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
328 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
330 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
332 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
334 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
336 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
339 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
341 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
342 search, show and tree mode)
344 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
347 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
350 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
351 always be newest first.
356 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
357 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
358 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
364 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
365 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
366 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
367 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
369 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
370 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
371 non-status providing versions.
373 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
374 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
376 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
377 promised in the documentation.
382 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
383 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
384 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
389 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
390 development version).
395 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
400 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
402 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
403 =========================
408 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
409 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
410 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
413 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
419 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
420 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
421 notmuch-properties(7)).
426 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
427 has protected headers (see
428 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
429 notmuch-properties(7)).
434 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
436 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
437 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
443 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
446 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
447 ===========================
452 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
454 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
459 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
461 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
462 ===========================
467 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
468 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
470 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
471 ===========================
476 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
478 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
479 =========================
484 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
485 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
488 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
489 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
490 the set of headers to be indexed.
492 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
495 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
496 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
497 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
500 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
501 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
502 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
504 Command Line Interface
505 ----------------------
507 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
510 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
512 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
513 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
514 more details about what is included there. This status includes
515 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
520 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
521 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
523 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
525 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
527 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
529 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
531 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
534 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
536 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
537 and may be removed in a future release.
539 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
545 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
547 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
548 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
553 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
554 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
555 cryptography support.
560 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
561 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
562 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
564 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
565 ===========================
567 Command line interface
568 ----------------------
570 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
571 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
573 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
574 ===========================
579 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
580 by message properties.
585 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
587 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
588 ===========================
593 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
598 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
599 now needed to build this documentation.
601 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
602 ===========================
607 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
608 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
610 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
611 =========================
618 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
619 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
620 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
621 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
622 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
625 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
627 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
628 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
629 correct encoding for such messages.
631 Command Line Interface
632 ----------------------
634 Support relative database paths
636 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
637 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
638 to $HOME of the invoking user.
643 Improve stderr handling
645 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
646 needed on e.g. macOS.
648 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
650 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
655 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
656 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
662 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
663 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
669 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
670 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
673 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
674 =========================
679 Add support for thread:{} queries
681 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
682 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
683 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
685 Command Line Interface
686 ----------------------
688 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
690 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
692 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
694 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
695 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
696 does not have to be available during message receipt.
701 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
707 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
708 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
710 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
711 ===========================
716 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
718 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
719 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
720 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
722 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
724 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
725 related abort in `notmuch show`.
727 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
728 ===========================
733 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
734 better late than never.
737 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
738 =========================
740 Command Line Interface
741 ----------------------
743 Support for re-indexing existing messages
745 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
746 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
747 change the way specific messages are indexed.
749 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
750 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
751 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
753 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
755 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
757 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
759 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
760 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
761 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
762 the setting of `new.tags`.
764 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
766 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
768 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
770 This inserts into the top level folder.
772 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
774 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
776 New option --output=address for notmuch address
778 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
780 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
782 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
783 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
784 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
786 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
791 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
793 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
794 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
795 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
796 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
797 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
798 config set index.decrypt true".
800 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
801 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
802 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
803 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
804 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
805 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
806 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
807 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
809 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
810 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
811 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
812 this feature without considering the security of your index.
817 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
819 Use make-process when available
821 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
822 notmuch command without using temporary files.
827 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
829 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
830 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
831 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
832 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
834 New functions to count files
836 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
837 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
839 New function to remove properties
841 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
842 drop all properties with a common pattern:
843 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
845 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
847 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
848 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
849 possibility of NULL was not documented.
851 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
853 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
854 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
855 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
856 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
857 operator may decide to change from message to message.
864 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
865 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
866 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
872 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
874 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
875 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
877 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
879 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
881 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
883 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
888 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
889 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
891 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
892 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
893 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
894 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
895 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
896 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
901 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
903 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
904 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
905 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
906 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
908 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
909 ===========================
914 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
915 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
918 Command Line Interface
919 ----------------------
921 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
922 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
925 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
926 ===========================
928 Command Line Interface
929 ----------------------
931 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
932 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
937 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
940 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
941 ===========================
946 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
949 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
950 =========================
955 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
957 Skip HTML tags when indexing
959 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
961 Command Line Interface
962 ----------------------
964 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
966 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
971 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
973 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
974 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
977 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
982 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
984 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
985 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
987 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
989 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
990 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
993 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
995 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
997 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
999 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1000 ===========================
1002 Command Line Interface
1003 ----------------------
1005 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1010 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1012 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1013 ===========================
1018 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1020 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1021 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1024 Command Line Interface
1025 ----------------------
1027 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1029 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1031 Fix bug in dump header
1033 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1034 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1035 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1040 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1042 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1043 =========================
1048 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1050 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1053 Command Line Interface
1054 ----------------------
1056 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1058 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1059 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1060 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1062 New default output format to 3
1064 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1065 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1066 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1067 default format changes.
1072 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1074 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1075 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1076 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1077 or tree view to resume.
1079 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1080 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1081 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1084 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1085 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1089 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1090 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1091 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1092 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1093 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1097 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1098 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1099 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1100 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1101 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1102 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1106 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1107 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1109 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1111 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1112 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1113 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1114 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1115 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1116 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1117 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1118 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1121 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1123 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1124 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1125 only tagged the current thread.)
1127 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1129 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1130 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1131 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1133 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1135 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1136 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1137 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1138 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1139 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1140 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1141 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1143 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1145 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1146 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1147 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1152 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1154 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1157 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1159 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1162 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1163 ===========================
1168 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1170 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1171 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1172 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1175 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1176 ===========================
1178 Command Line Interface
1179 ----------------------
1181 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1186 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1188 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1189 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1190 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1192 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1193 ===========================
1198 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1199 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1201 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1202 ===========================
1204 Command Line Interface
1205 ----------------------
1207 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1209 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1210 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1211 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1216 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1218 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1219 ===========================
1221 Command Line Interface
1222 ----------------------
1224 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1229 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1231 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1232 ===========================
1237 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1239 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1240 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1241 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1243 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1245 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1247 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1248 ===========================
1253 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1255 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1260 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1262 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1263 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1264 the original colours.
1266 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1267 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1269 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1271 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1272 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1273 bug, and hence the test.
1275 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1276 =========================
1278 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1279 ---------------------
1281 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1283 Support for single argument date: queries
1285 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1287 Support for blocking opens
1289 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1290 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1292 Support for named queries
1294 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1295 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1296 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1301 Message property API
1303 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1304 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1305 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1306 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1308 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1310 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1315 Support for compile time options
1317 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1318 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1321 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1323 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1324 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1325 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1326 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1327 scripts to ignore it.
1332 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1334 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1335 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1336 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1338 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1339 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1340 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1341 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1342 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1343 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1344 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1346 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1347 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1350 Make internal address completion customizable
1352 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1353 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1354 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1355 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1358 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1360 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1361 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1362 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1363 completion for the current buffer.
1365 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1366 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1367 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1371 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1372 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1373 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1374 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1375 will be added instead.
1377 Face customization is easier
1379 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1380 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1381 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1382 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1384 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1389 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1394 Go bindings moved to contrib
1396 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1398 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1400 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1401 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1403 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1405 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1406 ===========================
1413 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1414 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1416 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1418 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1420 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1421 ===========================
1426 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1428 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1433 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1438 Use `env` to locate perl.
1443 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1445 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1447 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1449 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1451 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1452 =========================
1459 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1460 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1462 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1464 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1465 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1466 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1471 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1472 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1473 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1475 Command Line Interface
1476 ----------------------
1478 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1480 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1485 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1490 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1492 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1493 parts are now included in replies.
1495 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1496 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1497 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1498 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1500 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1502 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1504 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1506 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1507 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1508 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1509 forwards only the current message.
1511 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1513 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1514 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1515 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1516 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1517 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1518 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1519 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1520 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1523 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1524 longer generate empty buffers
1526 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1527 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1528 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1529 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1530 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1532 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1534 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1537 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1539 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1542 Address completion improvements
1544 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1545 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1546 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1547 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1548 interactive address completion.
1550 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1552 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1553 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1554 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1559 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1560 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1561 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1567 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1568 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1569 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1570 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1571 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1572 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1574 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1575 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1576 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1577 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1578 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1579 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1581 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1582 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1584 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1585 =========================
1590 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1593 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1595 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1596 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1597 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1599 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1600 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1602 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1603 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1604 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1606 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1608 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1609 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1610 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1611 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1612 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1613 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1618 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1619 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1622 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1623 option to configure.
1625 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1627 Command Line Interface
1628 ----------------------
1630 Database revision tracking
1632 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1633 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1634 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1635 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1637 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1639 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1640 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1641 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1642 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1643 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1644 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1645 manual page for further information.
1650 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1652 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1653 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1655 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1657 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1658 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1659 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1661 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1663 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1665 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1666 customization as well.
1668 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1670 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1672 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1674 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1676 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1677 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1678 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1679 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1681 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1683 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1684 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1685 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1686 this variable to 10000.
1691 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1692 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1694 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1696 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1697 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1698 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1699 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1700 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1701 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1702 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1703 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1704 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1707 Database revision tracking
1709 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1710 query parser and the new function
1711 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1713 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1715 Deprecated functions
1717 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1718 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1719 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1720 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1725 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1727 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1728 ===========================
1733 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1735 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1736 ===========================
1741 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1743 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1744 =========================
1746 Command-Line Interface
1747 ----------------------
1749 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1751 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1752 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1753 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1755 Path to gpg is now configurable
1757 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1758 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1763 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1765 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1770 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1775 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1780 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1782 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1783 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1785 New error logging facility
1787 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1788 output formerly printed to stderr.
1790 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1792 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1794 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1796 Fix for rounding of seconds
1801 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1803 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1804 documentation has been removed.
1806 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1808 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1809 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1814 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1815 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1816 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1821 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1822 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1823 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1824 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1825 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1826 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1829 git checkout config origin/config
1831 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1833 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1834 =========================
1839 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1840 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1841 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1842 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1843 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1844 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1845 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1847 Command-Line Interface
1848 ----------------------
1850 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1852 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1853 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1854 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1855 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1856 script callers should still check the return value.
1858 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1860 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1861 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1862 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1863 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1864 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1865 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1866 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1868 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1870 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1871 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1872 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1874 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1876 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1877 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1878 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1879 currently unmaintained.
1881 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1883 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1884 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1885 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1886 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1888 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1890 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1891 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1892 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1893 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1894 count of duplicate addresses.
1899 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1901 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1902 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1903 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1906 Improved handling of the unread tag
1908 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1909 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1910 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1911 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1912 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1913 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1914 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1916 Expanded default saved search settings
1918 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1919 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1921 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1923 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1924 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1925 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1927 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1929 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1930 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1931 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1932 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1933 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1934 the variable for details.
1939 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1941 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1942 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1943 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1944 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1946 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1948 Previously, library users were required to call
1949 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1950 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1951 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1952 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1953 too out of date for that API.
1955 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1957 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1958 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1959 atomic section will be aborted.
1961 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1962 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1964 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1966 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1967 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1968 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1969 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1970 messages into the same thread.
1975 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1976 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1977 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1978 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1979 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1980 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1985 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1986 from the config file. Use something like:
1990 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1991 "footer": "</body></html>",
2000 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2005 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2006 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2007 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2009 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2010 ===========================
2015 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2017 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2019 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2021 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2022 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2024 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2026 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2029 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2030 ===========================
2032 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2037 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2039 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2041 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2043 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2045 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2051 Use --quick when starting emacs
2053 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2055 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2057 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2059 Command-Line Interface
2060 ----------------------
2062 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2063 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2068 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2070 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2071 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2073 Fix for phrase indexing
2075 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2076 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2077 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2082 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2084 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2085 unintentionally removed.
2087 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2088 =========================
2093 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2094 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2095 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2096 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2097 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2098 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2099 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2100 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2101 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2107 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2109 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2110 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2111 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2112 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2113 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2114 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2115 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2116 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2118 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2120 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2121 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2122 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2123 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2126 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2128 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2129 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2130 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2131 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2132 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2133 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2134 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2139 Notmuch database upgrade
2141 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2142 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2143 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2144 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2145 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2146 released version of Notmuch before now.
2148 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2150 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2151 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2152 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2153 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2155 Message header parsing changes
2157 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2158 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2159 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2160 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2161 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2162 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2164 Command-Line Interface
2165 ----------------------
2167 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2169 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2171 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2173 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2175 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2177 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2178 user does not want it.
2180 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2182 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2183 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2184 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2185 support formatted output.
2187 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2189 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2190 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2191 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2199 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2200 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2201 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2202 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2203 `~/.emacs` with these.
2205 Changed format for saved searches
2207 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2208 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2209 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2210 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2213 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2214 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2215 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2216 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2218 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2219 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2220 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2222 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2223 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2224 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2225 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2226 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2228 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2230 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2231 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2232 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2234 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2236 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2237 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2238 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2239 message had been unread).
2241 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2242 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2243 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2244 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2246 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2247 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2248 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2250 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2251 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2252 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2253 to tags already present.
2257 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2258 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2259 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2260 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2261 these differ from each other.
2262 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2264 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2266 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2267 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2268 for these Emacs versions.
2270 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2272 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2273 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2275 Bug fixes for sender identities
2277 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2278 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2279 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2281 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2283 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2284 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2285 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2286 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2288 Reply pushes mark before signature
2290 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2291 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2292 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2294 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2296 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2297 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2303 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2304 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2306 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2307 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2308 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2309 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2311 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2312 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2313 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2314 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2315 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2317 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2319 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2320 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2322 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2323 =========================
2325 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2326 ---------------------------------------
2328 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2329 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2330 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2331 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2332 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2333 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2334 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2338 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2339 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2341 Command-Line Interface
2342 ----------------------
2344 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2346 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2347 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2348 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2349 print for each message.
2351 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2352 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2353 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2354 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2356 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2358 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2359 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2360 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2362 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2364 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2365 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2366 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2367 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2369 `notmuch compact` command
2371 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2372 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2373 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2374 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2375 move the compacted database into place.
2380 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2382 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2383 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2384 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2385 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2386 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2387 and multiple threads.
2389 Using `notmuch-tree`
2391 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2393 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2394 search, show and tree mode itself)
2396 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2399 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2400 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2402 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2404 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2405 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2406 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2407 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2408 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2409 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2410 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2412 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2414 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2415 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2416 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2417 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2418 thread when the search was performed.
2420 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2422 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2423 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2424 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2426 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2428 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2429 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2432 Built-in help improvements
2434 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2435 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2436 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2438 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2440 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2441 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2442 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2444 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2446 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2447 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2449 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2451 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2452 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2453 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2454 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2456 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2458 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2459 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2460 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2461 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2463 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2465 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2466 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2467 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2469 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2471 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2472 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2473 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2475 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2477 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2478 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2479 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2480 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2481 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2483 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2485 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2486 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2487 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2488 the body part of the message.
2493 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2494 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2495 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2497 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2498 =========================
2500 Command-Line Interface
2501 ----------------------
2503 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2505 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2506 folder and notmuch index.
2508 `notmuch count --batch` option
2510 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2511 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2513 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2515 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2516 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2517 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2520 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2522 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2523 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2524 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2525 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2526 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2529 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2531 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2532 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2534 Top level option to specify configuration file
2536 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2537 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2539 Bash command-line completion
2541 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2542 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2543 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2544 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2545 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2546 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2547 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2548 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2549 bash-completion package.
2551 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2556 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2558 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2559 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2560 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2561 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2562 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2563 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2564 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2565 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2567 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2569 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2570 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2571 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2573 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2575 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2576 previous thread in the search results.
2578 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2580 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2581 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2583 Faster search and show
2585 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2586 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2587 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2588 threads should show faster.
2592 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2593 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2594 in question was now removed from this release.
2599 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2600 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2605 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2607 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2608 ===========================
2613 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2615 Internal test framework changes
2616 -------------------------------
2618 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2619 being unimplemented.
2621 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2622 ===========================
2624 Internal test framework changes
2625 -------------------------------
2627 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2628 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2630 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2631 =========================
2636 Date range search support
2638 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2639 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2640 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2641 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2642 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2645 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2647 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2648 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2649 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2650 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2651 but may be removed in a future release.
2653 Command-Line Interface
2654 ----------------------
2656 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2658 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2659 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2661 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2663 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2664 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2665 officially deprecated.
2667 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2669 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2670 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2671 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2673 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2675 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2676 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2679 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2680 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2681 dump/restore format.
2683 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2685 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2686 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2687 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2689 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2691 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2692 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2693 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2695 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2697 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2698 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2699 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2700 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2705 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2707 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2708 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2709 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2710 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2712 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2714 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2715 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2716 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2717 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2718 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2719 the behavior of this, see
2720 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2721 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2723 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2724 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2725 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2727 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2729 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2730 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2733 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2735 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2736 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2737 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2738 simply displayed in place of the message.
2740 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2742 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2743 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2745 Improved text/calendar content handling
2747 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2748 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2749 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2750 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2752 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2754 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2755 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2756 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2757 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2759 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2761 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2762 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2763 for HTML email containing images.
2765 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2767 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2769 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2771 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2774 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2776 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2777 the point where it was.
2779 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2781 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2782 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2783 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2784 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2785 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2787 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2789 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2790 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2791 thread instead of the message id.
2793 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2794 -----------------------------
2796 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2797 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2798 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2799 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2800 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2801 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2802 further details and installation.
2807 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2809 Internal test framework changes
2810 -------------------------------
2812 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2814 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2815 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2816 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2817 can result in buggy behavior.
2819 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2820 =========================
2825 Maildir tag synchronization
2827 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2828 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2829 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2830 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2831 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2832 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2835 Command-Line Interface
2836 ----------------------
2838 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2839 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2840 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2841 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2842 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2848 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2850 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2852 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2853 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2854 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2856 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2858 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2859 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2860 span multiple lines.
2862 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2864 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2865 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2866 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2867 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2868 inside the result or message.
2870 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2872 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2873 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2875 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2876 user-specified formatting
2878 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2879 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2880 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2881 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2882 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2884 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2885 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2887 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2888 ===========================
2893 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2894 compilation error for this contrib package.
2896 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2897 ===========================
2902 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2904 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2905 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2906 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2907 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2909 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2910 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2913 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2914 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2915 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2916 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2919 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2921 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2924 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2925 =========================
2927 Command-Line Interface
2928 ----------------------
2932 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2933 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2934 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2935 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2937 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2938 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2939 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2940 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2944 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2945 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2947 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2948 tag in your query, for example:
2950 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2952 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2953 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2955 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2956 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2958 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2960 Raw show format changes
2962 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2963 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2964 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2965 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2966 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2967 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2968 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2969 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2971 Listing configuration items
2973 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2979 Changes to tagging interface
2981 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2982 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2983 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2984 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2985 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2986 for more information.
2988 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2989 may need to update in custom configurations.
2991 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2993 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2994 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2995 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2996 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2999 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3000 -----------------------------
3002 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3003 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3004 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3005 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3006 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3007 contrib/ from now on.
3012 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3013 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3015 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3016 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3018 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3019 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3020 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3022 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3023 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3025 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3026 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3027 returning the new database object or directory object.
3034 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3035 compatible with go 1.
3037 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3038 =========================
3040 Command-Line Interface
3041 ----------------------
3045 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3046 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3047 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3048 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3050 Mail store folder/file ignore
3052 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3053 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3054 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3056 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3057 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3059 Unified help and manual pages
3061 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3062 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3065 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3067 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3068 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3076 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3077 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3078 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3079 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3081 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3083 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3084 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3086 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3089 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3090 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3091 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3093 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3095 should be changed to:
3097 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3099 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3101 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3102 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3104 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3106 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3107 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3108 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3109 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3110 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3111 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3115 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3116 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3117 of Mailing List Archives.
3119 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3121 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3122 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3125 Show view archiving key binding changes
3127 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3128 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3129 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3130 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3131 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3134 Support text/calendar MIME type
3136 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3139 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3141 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3142 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3143 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3144 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3146 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3148 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3149 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3150 messages blue by default in the search view.
3154 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3155 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3162 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3165 Python bindings changes
3166 -----------------------
3168 Python 3.2 compatibility
3170 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3172 Added missing unicode conversions
3174 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3175 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3176 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3181 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3183 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3184 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3185 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3186 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3187 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3189 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3190 ===========================
3195 Fix error handling in python bindings
3197 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3198 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3199 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3200 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3202 Quote MML tags in replies
3204 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3205 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3206 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3207 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3208 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3209 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3210 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3211 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3213 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3214 =========================
3216 Command-Line Interface
3217 ----------------------
3221 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3222 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3223 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3224 importing new messages into the database.
3226 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3228 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3229 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3230 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3235 Automatic tag query optimization
3237 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3238 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3239 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3241 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3243 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3244 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3245 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3250 Reduction of memory leaks
3252 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3253 and fixed in this release.
3260 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3261 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3262 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3265 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3267 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3268 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3269 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3272 Improvements in saved search management
3274 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3275 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3276 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3278 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3280 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3281 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3282 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3284 New face for crypto parts headers
3286 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3287 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3288 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3291 Use space as default thousands separator
3293 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3294 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3295 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3297 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3298 buttonized id: links
3300 New function notmuch-show-advance
3302 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3303 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3304 be bound to SPC with:
3306 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3308 Various performance improvements
3313 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3314 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3317 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3318 ===========================
3323 Fix crash in python bindings
3325 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3326 for some, but not all users.
3328 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3329 ===========================
3334 Fix `--help` argument
3336 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3337 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3338 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3340 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3341 =========================
3343 New build and testing features
3344 ------------------------------
3346 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3347 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3348 prerequisites is improved.
3350 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3352 New command-line features
3353 -------------------------
3355 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3357 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3358 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3361 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3363 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3364 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3365 favour of using stdout.
3367 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3369 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3370 limit the number of results shown.
3372 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3374 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3375 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3378 New emacs UI features
3379 ---------------------
3381 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3383 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3384 starting with "tag:".
3386 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3388 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3389 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3391 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3393 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3395 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3397 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3398 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3403 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3405 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3407 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3408 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3409 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3410 requires a database rebuild:
3412 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3413 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3415 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3417 New collection of add-on tools
3418 ------------------------------
3420 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3421 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3422 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3425 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3427 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3428 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3429 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3431 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3432 ========================
3434 New, general features
3435 ---------------------
3437 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3439 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3440 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3441 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3442 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3443 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3450 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3451 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3453 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3457 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3458 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3459 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3462 Python bindings changes
3463 -----------------------
3465 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3467 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3468 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3469 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3470 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3471 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3472 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3474 Ruby bindings changes
3475 ---------------------
3477 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3478 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3479 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3480 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3485 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3487 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3488 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3490 Reply formatting cleanup
3491 ------------------------
3493 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3494 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3496 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3497 ========================
3499 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3501 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3502 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3503 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3504 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3507 Improved Build system portability
3509 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3510 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3511 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3513 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3515 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3517 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3519 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3520 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3521 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3523 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3524 ========================
3526 Vim interface improvements
3527 --------------------------
3529 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3531 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3532 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3533 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3534 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3535 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3537 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3539 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3540 * fix compose temp file name
3542 Python Bindings changes
3543 -----------------------
3545 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3547 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3548 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3550 Build-System improvements
3551 -------------------------
3553 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3555 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3558 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3559 ==========================
3564 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3566 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3567 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3569 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3570 =======================
3572 New, general features
3573 ---------------------
3575 Folder-based searching
3577 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3578 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3579 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3583 For example, one might use things such as:
3589 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3590 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3592 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3593 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3594 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3595 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3597 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3598 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3599 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3602 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3603 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3605 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3607 Support for PGP/MIME
3609 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3610 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3611 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3613 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3615 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3616 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3618 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3619 notmuch will receive these tags.
3621 New command-line features
3622 -------------------------
3624 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3626 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3627 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3629 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3631 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3632 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3633 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3635 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3637 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3638 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3639 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3640 which parts a signature part applies).
3642 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3644 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3645 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3646 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3647 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3648 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3651 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3653 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3654 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3655 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3656 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3657 by translating it internally to the new call.
3659 Performance improvements
3660 ------------------------
3662 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3664 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3665 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3666 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3668 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3669 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3671 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3673 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3674 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3675 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3677 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3678 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3679 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3680 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3682 Faster initial indexing
3684 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3685 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3686 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3688 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3690 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3691 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3692 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3693 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3695 New emacs-interface features
3696 ----------------------------
3698 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3700 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3701 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3702 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3703 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3704 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3705 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3707 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3709 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3710 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3711 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3712 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3714 User-selectable From address
3716 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3717 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3718 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3719 will prompt for the from address to use.
3721 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3722 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3723 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3725 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3726 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3727 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3730 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3732 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3733 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3735 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3737 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3739 ----- Original Message -----
3741 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3742 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3743 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3744 citations work much like conventional citations.
3746 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3748 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3749 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3750 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3751 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3752 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3754 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3755 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3757 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3759 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3760 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3761 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3763 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3765 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3766 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3767 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3768 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3769 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3771 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3773 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3776 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3778 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3780 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3782 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3785 Vim interface improvements
3786 --------------------------
3788 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3790 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3791 * Implementing archive in show view
3792 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3793 * Add delete commands
3796 Bindings improvements
3797 ---------------------
3799 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3801 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3802 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3804 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3806 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3810 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3811 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3812 `list(Messages)` works now
3813 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3815 These allow, for example:
3817 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3819 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3821 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3827 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3829 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3832 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3834 New build-system features
3835 -------------------------
3837 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3839 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3840 the configure script from some other directory:
3847 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3849 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3850 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3851 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3852 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3853 manual invocation of configure.
3855 New test-suite feature
3856 ----------------------
3858 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3860 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3861 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3862 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3863 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3864 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3867 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3869 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3870 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3871 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3872 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3873 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3874 are updated to take advantage of this.
3876 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3878 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3879 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3880 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3881 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3887 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3889 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3890 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3891 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3893 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3895 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3897 to:user@elsewhere.com
3899 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3901 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3903 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3905 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3906 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3907 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3910 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3911 from the Received headers in some cases
3913 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3914 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3916 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3918 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3920 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3922 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3923 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3924 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3926 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3927 -------------------------
3929 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3931 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3932 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3933 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3935 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3937 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3938 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3939 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3942 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3944 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3945 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3946 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3947 fixed to avoid this bug.
3949 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3951 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3952 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3954 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3955 ========================
3957 New, general features
3958 ---------------------
3960 Maildir-flag synchronization
3962 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3963 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3972 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3974 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3975 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3976 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3977 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3979 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3980 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3981 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3982 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3985 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3987 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3988 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3989 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3991 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3992 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3994 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3995 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3997 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3998 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3999 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4001 New library features
4002 --------------------
4004 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4006 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4007 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4008 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4009 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4011 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4012 message with the new function:
4014 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4016 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4017 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4018 over all available filenames for a given message.
4020 New command-line features
4021 -------------------------
4023 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4025 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4026 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4027 access to the mail store itself.
4029 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4030 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4031 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4032 name of a script containing:
4034 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4036 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4037 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4043 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4045 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4047 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4049 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4050 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4051 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4052 now produces nothing).
4054 Emacs interface improvements
4055 ----------------------------
4057 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4059 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4061 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4063 Display current thread subject in a header line
4065 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4067 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4069 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4070 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4071 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4072 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4073 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4074 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4075 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4077 Vim interface improvements
4078 --------------------------
4080 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4082 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4083 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4089 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4091 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4092 ========================
4094 New command-line features
4095 -------------------------
4097 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4099 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4100 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4101 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4103 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4104 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4105 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4106 scripts. For example:
4108 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4109 <operations-on> "$file"
4112 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4114 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4115 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4116 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4117 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4118 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4119 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4121 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4123 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4124 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4125 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4126 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4128 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4130 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4131 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4132 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4133 default rather than Bcc.
4135 New library features
4136 --------------------
4138 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4140 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4141 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4146 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4148 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4149 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4150 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4151 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4152 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4153 notmuch customize interface.
4155 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4157 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4158 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4159 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4160 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4162 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4164 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4165 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4166 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4167 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4169 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4171 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4172 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4173 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4174 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4175 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4176 notmuch customize interface.
4178 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4180 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4181 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4182 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4183 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4184 notmuch customize interface.
4186 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4188 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4189 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4190 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4191 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4194 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4196 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4197 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4198 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4201 New build-system features
4202 -------------------------
4204 Various portability fixes have been applied
4206 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4207 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4208 more portable than ever before.
4210 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4212 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4213 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4214 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4216 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4217 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4218 automatically run ldconfig.
4220 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4221 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4222 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4224 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4225 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4226 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4227 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4229 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4231 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4232 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4233 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4234 used in the resulting Makefile.
4236 New test-suite features
4237 -----------------------
4239 New modularization of test suite
4241 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4242 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4243 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4244 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4245 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4246 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4247 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4248 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4250 New testing of emacs interface
4252 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4253 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4254 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4255 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4256 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4257 database via the FCC setting.
4262 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4264 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4265 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4266 persistent error of the form:
4268 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4270 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4271 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4273 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4275 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4276 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4277 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4279 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4281 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4282 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4283 parsing the notmuch results).
4285 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4287 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4290 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4291 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4292 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4297 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4299 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4300 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4301 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4302 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4303 the emacs interface.
4305 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4307 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4308 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4309 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4311 Python-binding fixes
4312 --------------------
4314 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4316 Debian-specific fixes
4317 ---------------------
4319 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4321 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4322 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4323 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4326 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4327 ==========================
4332 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4334 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4335 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4336 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4337 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4339 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4341 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4342 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4343 want notmuch to crash.
4348 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4350 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4351 directory does not exist
4356 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4358 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4359 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4361 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4362 ========================
4364 New command-line features
4365 -------------------------
4367 User-configurable tags for new messages
4369 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4370 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4371 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4372 to specify this value.
4374 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4376 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4377 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4378 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4380 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4382 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4383 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4385 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4387 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4388 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4389 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4390 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4391 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4394 Indication of author names that match a search
4396 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4397 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4398 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4399 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4400 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4401 messages in the thread are listed first.
4403 New: Python bindings
4404 --------------------
4406 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4407 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4408 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4409 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4411 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4412 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4413 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4416 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4417 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4418 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4420 Emacs interface improvements
4421 ----------------------------
4423 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4425 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4426 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4427 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4428 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4429 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4430 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4431 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4432 but without any of the disadvantages).
4434 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4435 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4436 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4439 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4440 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4441 instead running something like:
4443 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4445 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4446 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4447 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4450 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4452 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4453 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4454 tweaked by the user.
4456 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4457 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4458 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4461 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4462 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4463 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4466 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4468 This support currently relies on an external program,
4469 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4470 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4471 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4472 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4473 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4476 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4477 notmuch) is available via:
4479 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4481 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4482 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4483 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4485 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4487 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4488 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4489 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4490 making this automatic in a future release.
4492 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4494 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4495 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4496 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4497 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4498 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4499 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4502 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4504 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4505 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4506 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4508 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4510 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4511 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4512 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4514 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4515 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4516 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4517 other representation.
4519 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4520 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4523 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4525 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4526 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4527 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4529 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4530 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4531 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4533 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4535 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4536 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4537 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4538 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4539 to display the search result.
4541 More flexible handling of header visibility
4543 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4544 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4545 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4546 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4547 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4548 with the 'h' keybinding.
4550 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4551 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4552 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4554 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4556 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4558 Customizable formatting of search results
4560 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4561 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4562 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4564 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4566 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4568 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4573 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4575 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4576 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4577 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4578 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4584 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4586 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4587 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4589 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4591 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4592 accept are now all accepted.
4597 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4599 Better display of output from failed tests
4601 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4602 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4604 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4605 ========================
4607 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4608 detailed release notes this time!
4610 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4611 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4613 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4614 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4615 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4616 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4623 Better guessing of From: header
4625 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4626 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4627 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4628 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4629 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4632 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4634 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4635 guaranteed to match all messages.
4637 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4639 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4640 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4641 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4642 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4643 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4646 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4649 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4650 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4651 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4652 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4657 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4659 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4660 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4661 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4662 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4664 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4666 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4668 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4669 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4670 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4672 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4674 Previously, the user might see:
4676 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4680 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4682 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4683 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4684 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4685 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4687 Emacs client features
4688 ---------------------
4690 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4692 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4693 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4694 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4695 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4696 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4698 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4701 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4702 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4703 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4704 search with the '*' binding.
4706 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4708 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4709 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4712 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4714 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4715 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4716 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4718 Build-system features
4719 ---------------------
4721 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4723 Add support to configure for many standard options
4725 We include actual support for:
4727 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4729 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4731 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4732 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4734 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4735 separate "make install-emacs"
4737 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4739 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4740 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4741 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4743 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4746 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4747 ========================
4749 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4751 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4752 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4754 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4755 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4756 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4757 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4758 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4759 tags from messages in a thread.
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