1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
10 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
11 ===========================
16 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
17 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
19 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
20 =========================
27 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
28 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
29 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
30 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
31 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
34 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
36 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
37 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
38 correct encoding for such messages.
40 Command Line Interface
41 ----------------------
43 Support relative database paths
45 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
46 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
47 to $HOME of the invoking user.
52 Improve stderr handling
54 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
57 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
59 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
64 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
65 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
71 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
72 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
78 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
79 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
82 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
83 =========================
88 Add support for thread:{} queries
90 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
91 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
92 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
94 Command Line Interface
95 ----------------------
97 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
99 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
101 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
103 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
104 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
105 does not have to be available during message receipt.
110 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
116 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
117 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
119 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
120 ===========================
125 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
127 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
128 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
129 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
131 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
133 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
134 related abort in `notmuch show`.
136 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
137 ===========================
142 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
143 better late than never.
146 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
147 =========================
149 Command Line Interface
150 ----------------------
152 Support for re-indexing existing messages
154 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
155 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
156 change the way specific messages are indexed.
158 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
159 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
160 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
162 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
164 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
166 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
168 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
169 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
170 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
171 the setting of `new.tags`.
173 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
175 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
177 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
179 This inserts into the top level folder.
181 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
183 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
185 New option --output=address for notmuch address
187 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
189 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
191 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
192 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
193 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
195 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
200 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
202 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
203 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
204 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
205 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
206 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
207 config set index.decrypt true".
209 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
210 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
211 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
212 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
213 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
214 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
215 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
216 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
218 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
219 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
220 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
221 this feature without considering the security of your index.
226 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
228 Use make-process when available
230 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
231 notmuch command without using temporary files.
236 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
238 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
239 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
240 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
241 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
243 New functions to count files
245 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
246 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
248 New function to remove properties
250 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
251 drop all properties with a common pattern:
252 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
254 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
256 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
257 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
258 possibility of NULL was not documented.
260 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
262 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
263 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
264 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
265 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
266 operator may decide to change from message to message.
273 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
274 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
275 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
281 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
283 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
284 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
286 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
288 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
290 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
292 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
297 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
298 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
300 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
301 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
302 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
303 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
304 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
305 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
310 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
312 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
313 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
314 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
315 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
317 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
318 ===========================
323 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
324 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
327 Command Line Interface
328 ----------------------
330 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
331 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
334 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
335 ===========================
337 Command Line Interface
338 ----------------------
340 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
341 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
346 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
349 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
350 ===========================
355 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
358 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
359 =========================
364 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
366 Skip HTML tags when indexing
368 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
370 Command Line Interface
371 ----------------------
373 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
375 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
380 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
382 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
383 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
386 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
391 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
393 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
394 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
396 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
398 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
399 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
402 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
404 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
406 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
408 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
409 ===========================
411 Command Line Interface
412 ----------------------
414 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
419 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
421 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
422 ===========================
427 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
429 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
430 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
433 Command Line Interface
434 ----------------------
436 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
438 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
440 Fix bug in dump header
442 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
443 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
444 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
449 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
451 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
452 =========================
457 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
459 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
462 Command Line Interface
463 ----------------------
465 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
467 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
468 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
469 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
471 New default output format to 3
473 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
474 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
475 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
476 default format changes.
481 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
483 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
484 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
485 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
486 or tree view to resume.
488 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
489 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
490 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
493 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
494 they were when you postponed in the final message.
498 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
499 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
500 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
501 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
502 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
506 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
507 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
508 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
509 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
510 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
511 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
515 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
516 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
518 Stop display of `application/*` parts
520 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
521 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
522 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
523 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
524 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
525 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
526 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
527 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
530 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
532 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
533 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
534 only tagged the current thread.)
536 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
538 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
539 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
540 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
542 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
544 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
545 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
546 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
547 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
548 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
549 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
550 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
552 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
554 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
555 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
556 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
561 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
563 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
566 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
568 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
571 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
572 ===========================
577 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
579 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
580 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
581 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
584 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
585 ===========================
587 Command Line Interface
588 ----------------------
590 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
595 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
597 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
598 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
599 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
601 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
602 ===========================
607 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
608 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
610 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
611 ===========================
613 Command Line Interface
614 ----------------------
616 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
618 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
619 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
620 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
625 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
627 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
628 ===========================
630 Command Line Interface
631 ----------------------
633 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
638 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
640 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
641 ===========================
646 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
648 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
649 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
650 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
652 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
654 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
656 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
657 ===========================
662 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
664 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
669 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
671 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
672 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
673 the original colours.
675 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
676 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
678 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
680 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
681 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
682 bug, and hence the test.
684 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
685 =========================
687 General (Xapian 1.4+)
688 ---------------------
690 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
692 Support for single argument date: queries
694 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
696 Support for blocking opens
698 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
699 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
701 Support for named queries
703 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
704 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
705 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
712 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
713 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
714 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
715 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
717 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
719 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
724 Support for compile time options
726 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
727 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
730 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
732 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
733 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
734 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
735 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
736 scripts to ignore it.
741 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
743 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
744 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
745 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
747 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
748 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
749 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
750 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
751 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
752 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
753 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
755 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
756 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
759 Make internal address completion customizable
761 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
762 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
763 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
764 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
767 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
769 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
770 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
771 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
772 completion for the current buffer.
774 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
775 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
776 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
780 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
781 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
782 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
783 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
784 will be added instead.
786 Face customization is easier
788 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
789 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
790 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
791 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
793 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
798 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
803 Go bindings moved to contrib
805 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
807 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
809 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
810 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
812 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
814 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
815 ===========================
822 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
823 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
825 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
827 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
829 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
830 ===========================
835 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
837 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
842 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
847 Use `env` to locate perl.
852 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
854 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
856 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
858 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
860 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
861 =========================
868 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
869 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
871 Limited support for S/MIME messages
873 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
874 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
875 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
880 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
881 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
882 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
884 Command Line Interface
885 ----------------------
887 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
889 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
894 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
899 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
901 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
902 parts are now included in replies.
904 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
905 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
906 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
907 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
909 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
911 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
913 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
915 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
916 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
917 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
918 forwards only the current message.
920 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
922 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
923 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
924 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
925 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
926 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
927 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
928 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
929 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
932 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
933 longer generate empty buffers
935 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
936 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
937 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
938 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
939 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
941 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
943 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
946 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
948 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
951 Address completion improvements
953 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
954 you previously configured one, customize the variable
955 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
956 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
957 interactive address completion.
959 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
961 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
962 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
963 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
968 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
969 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
970 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
976 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
977 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
978 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
979 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
980 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
981 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
983 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
984 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
985 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
986 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
987 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
988 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
990 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
991 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
993 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
994 =========================
999 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1002 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1004 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1005 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1006 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1008 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1009 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1011 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1012 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1013 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1015 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1017 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1018 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1019 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1020 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1021 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1022 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1027 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1028 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1031 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1032 option to configure.
1034 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1036 Command Line Interface
1037 ----------------------
1039 Database revision tracking
1041 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1042 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1043 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1044 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1046 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1048 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1049 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1050 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1051 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1052 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1053 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1054 manual page for further information.
1059 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1061 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1062 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1064 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1066 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1067 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1068 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1070 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1072 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1074 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1075 customization as well.
1077 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1079 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1081 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1083 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1085 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1086 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1087 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1088 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1090 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1092 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1093 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1094 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1095 this variable to 10000.
1100 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1101 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1103 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1105 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1106 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1107 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1108 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1109 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1110 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1111 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1112 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1113 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1116 Database revision tracking
1118 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1119 query parser and the new function
1120 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1122 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1124 Deprecated functions
1126 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1127 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1128 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1129 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1134 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1136 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1137 ===========================
1142 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1144 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1145 ===========================
1150 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1152 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1153 =========================
1155 Command-Line Interface
1156 ----------------------
1158 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1160 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1161 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1162 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1164 Path to gpg is now configurable
1166 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1167 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1172 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1174 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1179 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1184 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1189 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1191 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1192 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1194 New error logging facility
1196 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1197 output formerly printed to stderr.
1199 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1201 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1203 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1205 Fix for rounding of seconds
1210 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1212 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1213 documentation has been removed.
1215 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1217 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1218 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1223 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1224 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1225 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1230 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1231 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1232 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1233 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1234 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1235 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1238 git checkout config origin/config
1240 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1242 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1243 =========================
1248 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1249 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1250 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1251 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1252 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1253 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1254 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1256 Command-Line Interface
1257 ----------------------
1259 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1261 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1262 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1263 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1264 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1265 script callers should still check the return value.
1267 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1269 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1270 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1271 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1272 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1273 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1274 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1275 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1277 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1279 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1280 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1281 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1283 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1285 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1286 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1287 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1288 currently unmaintained.
1290 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1292 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1293 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1294 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1295 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1297 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1299 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1300 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1301 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1302 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1303 count of duplicate addresses.
1308 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1310 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1311 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1312 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1315 Improved handling of the unread tag
1317 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1318 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1319 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1320 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1321 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1322 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1323 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1325 Expanded default saved search settings
1327 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1328 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1330 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1332 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1333 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1334 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1336 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1338 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1339 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1340 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1341 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1342 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1343 the variable for details.
1348 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1350 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1351 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1352 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1353 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1355 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1357 Previously, library users were required to call
1358 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1359 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1360 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1361 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1362 too out of date for that API.
1364 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1366 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1367 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1368 atomic section will be aborted.
1370 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1371 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1373 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1375 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1376 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1377 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1378 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1379 messages into the same thread.
1384 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1385 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1386 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1387 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1388 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1389 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1394 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1395 from the config file. Use something like:
1399 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1400 "footer": "</body></html>",
1409 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1414 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1415 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1416 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1418 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1419 ===========================
1424 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1426 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1428 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1430 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1431 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1433 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1435 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1438 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1439 ===========================
1441 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1446 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1448 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1450 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1452 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1454 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1460 Use --quick when starting emacs
1462 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1464 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1466 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1468 Command-Line Interface
1469 ----------------------
1471 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1472 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1477 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1479 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1480 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1482 Fix for phrase indexing
1484 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1485 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1486 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1491 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1493 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1494 unintentionally removed.
1496 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1497 =========================
1502 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1503 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1504 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1505 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1506 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1507 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1508 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1509 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1510 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1516 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1518 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1519 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1520 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1521 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1522 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1523 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1524 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1525 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1527 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1529 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1530 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1531 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1532 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1535 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1537 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1538 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1539 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1540 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1541 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1542 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1543 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1548 Notmuch database upgrade
1550 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1551 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1552 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1553 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1554 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1555 released version of Notmuch before now.
1557 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1559 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1560 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1561 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1562 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1564 Message header parsing changes
1566 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1567 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1568 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1569 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1570 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1571 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1573 Command-Line Interface
1574 ----------------------
1576 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1578 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1580 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1582 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1584 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1586 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1587 user does not want it.
1589 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1591 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1592 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1593 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1594 support formatted output.
1596 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1598 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1599 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1600 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1608 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1609 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1610 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1611 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1612 `~/.emacs` with these.
1614 Changed format for saved searches
1616 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1617 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1618 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1619 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1622 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1623 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1624 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1625 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1627 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1628 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1629 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1631 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1632 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1633 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1634 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1635 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1637 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1639 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1640 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1641 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1643 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1645 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1646 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1647 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1648 message had been unread).
1650 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1651 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1652 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1653 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1655 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1656 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1657 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1659 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1660 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1661 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1662 to tags already present.
1666 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1667 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1668 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1669 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1670 these differ from each other.
1671 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1673 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1675 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1676 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1677 for these Emacs versions.
1679 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1681 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1682 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1684 Bug fixes for sender identities
1686 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1687 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1688 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1690 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1692 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1693 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1694 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1695 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1697 Reply pushes mark before signature
1699 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1700 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1701 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1703 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1705 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1706 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1712 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1713 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1715 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1716 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1717 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1718 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1720 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1721 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1722 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1723 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1724 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1726 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1728 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1729 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1731 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1732 =========================
1734 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1735 ---------------------------------------
1737 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1738 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1739 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1740 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1741 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1742 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1743 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1747 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1748 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1750 Command-Line Interface
1751 ----------------------
1753 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1755 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1756 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1757 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1758 print for each message.
1760 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1761 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1762 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1763 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1765 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1767 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1768 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1769 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1771 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1773 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1774 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1775 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1776 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1778 `notmuch compact` command
1780 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1781 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1782 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1783 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1784 move the compacted database into place.
1789 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1791 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1792 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1793 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1794 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1795 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1796 and multiple threads.
1798 Using `notmuch-tree`
1800 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1802 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1803 search, show and tree mode itself)
1805 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1808 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1809 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1811 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1813 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1814 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1815 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1816 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1817 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1818 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1819 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1821 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1823 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1824 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1825 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1826 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1827 thread when the search was performed.
1829 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1831 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1832 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1833 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1835 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1837 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1838 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1841 Built-in help improvements
1843 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1844 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1845 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1847 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1849 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1850 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1851 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1853 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1855 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1856 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1858 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1860 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1861 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1862 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1863 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1865 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1867 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1868 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1869 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1870 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1872 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1874 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1875 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1876 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1878 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1880 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1881 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1882 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1884 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1886 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1887 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1888 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1889 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1890 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1892 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1894 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1895 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1896 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1897 the body part of the message.
1902 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1903 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1904 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1906 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1907 =========================
1909 Command-Line Interface
1910 ----------------------
1912 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1914 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1915 folder and notmuch index.
1917 `notmuch count --batch` option
1919 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1920 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1922 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1924 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1925 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1926 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1929 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1931 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1932 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1933 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1934 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1935 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1938 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1940 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1941 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1943 Top level option to specify configuration file
1945 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1946 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1948 Bash command-line completion
1950 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1951 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1952 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1953 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1954 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1955 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1956 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1957 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1958 bash-completion package.
1960 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1965 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1967 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1968 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1969 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1970 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1971 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1972 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1973 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1974 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1976 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1978 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1979 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1980 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1982 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1984 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1985 previous thread in the search results.
1987 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1989 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1990 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1992 Faster search and show
1994 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1995 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1996 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1997 threads should show faster.
2001 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2002 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2003 in question was now removed from this release.
2008 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2009 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2014 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2016 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2017 ===========================
2022 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2024 Internal test framework changes
2025 -------------------------------
2027 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2028 being unimplemented.
2030 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2031 ===========================
2033 Internal test framework changes
2034 -------------------------------
2036 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2037 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2039 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2040 =========================
2045 Date range search support
2047 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2048 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2049 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2050 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2051 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2054 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2056 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2057 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2058 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2059 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2060 but may be removed in a future release.
2062 Command-Line Interface
2063 ----------------------
2065 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2067 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2068 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2070 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2072 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2073 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2074 officially deprecated.
2076 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2078 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2079 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2080 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2082 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2084 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2085 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2088 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2089 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2090 dump/restore format.
2092 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2094 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2095 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2096 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2098 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2100 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2101 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2102 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2104 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2106 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2107 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2108 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2109 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2114 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2116 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2117 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2118 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2119 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2121 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2123 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2124 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2125 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2126 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2127 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2128 the behavior of this, see
2129 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2130 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2132 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2133 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2134 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2136 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2138 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2139 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2142 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2144 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2145 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2146 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2147 simply displayed in place of the message.
2149 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2151 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2152 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2154 Improved text/calendar content handling
2156 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2157 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2158 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2159 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2161 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2163 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2164 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2165 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2166 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2168 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2170 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2171 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2172 for HTML email containing images.
2174 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2176 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2178 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2180 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2183 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2185 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2186 the point where it was.
2188 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2190 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2191 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2192 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2193 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2194 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2196 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2198 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2199 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2200 thread instead of the message id.
2202 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2203 -----------------------------
2205 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2206 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2207 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2208 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2209 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2210 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2211 further details and installation.
2216 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2218 Internal test framework changes
2219 -------------------------------
2221 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2223 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2224 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2225 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2226 can result in buggy behavior.
2228 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2229 =========================
2234 Maildir tag synchronization
2236 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2237 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2238 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2239 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2240 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2241 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2244 Command-Line Interface
2245 ----------------------
2247 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2248 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2249 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2250 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2251 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2257 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2259 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2261 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2262 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2263 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2265 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2267 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2268 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2269 span multiple lines.
2271 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2273 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2274 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2275 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2276 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2277 inside the result or message.
2279 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2281 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2282 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2284 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2285 user-specified formatting
2287 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2288 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2289 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2290 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2291 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2293 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2294 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2296 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2297 ===========================
2302 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2303 compilation error for this contrib package.
2305 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2306 ===========================
2311 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2313 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2314 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2315 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2316 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2318 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2319 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2322 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2323 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2324 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2325 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2328 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2330 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2333 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2334 =========================
2336 Command-Line Interface
2337 ----------------------
2341 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2342 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2343 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2344 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2346 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2347 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2348 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2349 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2353 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2354 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2356 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2357 tag in your query, for example:
2359 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2361 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2362 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2364 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2365 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2367 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2369 Raw show format changes
2371 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2372 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2373 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2374 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2375 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2376 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2377 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2378 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2380 Listing configuration items
2382 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2388 Changes to tagging interface
2390 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2391 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2392 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2393 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2394 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2395 for more information.
2397 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2398 may need to update in custom configurations.
2400 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2402 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2403 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2404 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2405 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2408 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2409 -----------------------------
2411 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2412 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2413 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2414 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2415 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2416 contrib/ from now on.
2421 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2422 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2424 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2425 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2427 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2428 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2429 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2431 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2432 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2434 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2435 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2436 returning the new database object or directory object.
2443 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2444 compatible with go 1.
2446 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2447 =========================
2449 Command-Line Interface
2450 ----------------------
2454 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2455 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2456 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2457 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2459 Mail store folder/file ignore
2461 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2462 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2463 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2465 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2466 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2468 Unified help and manual pages
2470 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2471 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2474 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2476 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2477 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2485 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2486 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2487 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2488 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2490 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2492 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2493 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2495 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2498 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2499 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2500 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2502 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2504 should be changed to:
2506 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2508 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2510 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2511 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2513 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2515 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2516 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2517 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2518 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2519 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2520 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2524 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2525 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2526 of Mailing List Archives.
2528 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2530 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2531 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2534 Show view archiving key binding changes
2536 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2537 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2538 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2539 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2540 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2543 Support text/calendar MIME type
2545 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2548 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2550 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2551 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2552 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2553 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2555 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2557 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2558 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2559 messages blue by default in the search view.
2563 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2564 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2571 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2574 Python bindings changes
2575 -----------------------
2577 Python 3.2 compatibility
2579 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2581 Added missing unicode conversions
2583 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2584 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2585 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2590 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2592 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2593 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2594 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2595 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2596 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2598 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2599 ===========================
2604 Fix error handling in python bindings
2606 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2607 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2608 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2609 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2611 Quote MML tags in replies
2613 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2614 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2615 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2616 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2617 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2618 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2619 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2620 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2622 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2623 =========================
2625 Command-Line Interface
2626 ----------------------
2630 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2631 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2632 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2633 importing new messages into the database.
2635 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2637 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2638 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2639 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2644 Automatic tag query optimization
2646 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2647 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2648 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2650 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2652 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2653 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2654 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2659 Reduction of memory leaks
2661 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2662 and fixed in this release.
2669 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2670 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2671 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2674 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2676 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2677 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2678 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2681 Improvements in saved search management
2683 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2684 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2685 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2687 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2689 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2690 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2691 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2693 New face for crypto parts headers
2695 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2696 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2697 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2700 Use space as default thousands separator
2702 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2703 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2704 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2706 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2707 buttonized id: links
2709 New function notmuch-show-advance
2711 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2712 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2713 be bound to SPC with:
2715 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2717 Various performance improvements
2722 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2723 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2726 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2727 ===========================
2732 Fix crash in python bindings
2734 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2735 for some, but not all users.
2737 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2738 ===========================
2743 Fix `--help` argument
2745 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2746 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2747 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2749 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2750 =========================
2752 New build and testing features
2753 ------------------------------
2755 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2756 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2757 prerequisites is improved.
2759 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2761 New command-line features
2762 -------------------------
2764 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2766 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2767 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2770 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2772 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2773 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2774 favour of using stdout.
2776 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2778 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2779 limit the number of results shown.
2781 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2783 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2784 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2787 New emacs UI features
2788 ---------------------
2790 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2792 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2793 starting with "tag:".
2795 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2797 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2798 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2800 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2802 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2804 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2806 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2807 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2812 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2814 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2816 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2817 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2818 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2819 requires a database rebuild:
2821 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2822 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2824 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2826 New collection of add-on tools
2827 ------------------------------
2829 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2830 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2831 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2834 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2836 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2837 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2838 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2840 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2841 ========================
2843 New, general features
2844 ---------------------
2846 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2848 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2849 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2850 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2851 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2852 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2859 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2860 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2862 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2866 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2867 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2868 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2871 Python bindings changes
2872 -----------------------
2874 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2876 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2877 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2878 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2879 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2880 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2881 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2883 Ruby bindings changes
2884 ---------------------
2886 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2887 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2888 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2889 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2894 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2896 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2897 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2899 Reply formatting cleanup
2900 ------------------------
2902 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2903 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2905 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2906 ========================
2908 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2910 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2911 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2912 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2913 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2916 Improved Build system portability
2918 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2919 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2920 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2922 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2924 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2926 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2928 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2929 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2930 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2932 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2933 ========================
2935 Vim interface improvements
2936 --------------------------
2938 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2940 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2941 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2942 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2943 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2944 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2946 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2948 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2949 * fix compose temp file name
2951 Python Bindings changes
2952 -----------------------
2954 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2956 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2957 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2959 Build-System improvements
2960 -------------------------
2962 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2964 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2967 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2968 ==========================
2973 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2975 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2976 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2978 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2979 =======================
2981 New, general features
2982 ---------------------
2984 Folder-based searching
2986 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2987 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2988 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2992 For example, one might use things such as:
2998 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2999 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3001 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3002 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3003 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3004 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3006 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3007 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3008 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3011 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3012 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3014 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3016 Support for PGP/MIME
3018 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3019 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3020 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3022 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3024 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3025 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3027 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3028 notmuch will receive these tags.
3030 New command-line features
3031 -------------------------
3033 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3035 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3036 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3038 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3040 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3041 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3042 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3044 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3046 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3047 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3048 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3049 which parts a signature part applies).
3051 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3053 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3054 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3055 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3056 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3057 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3060 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3062 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3063 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3064 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3065 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3066 by translating it internally to the new call.
3068 Performance improvements
3069 ------------------------
3071 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3073 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3074 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3075 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3077 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3078 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3080 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3082 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3083 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3084 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3086 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3087 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3088 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3089 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3091 Faster initial indexing
3093 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3094 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3095 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3097 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3099 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3100 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3101 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3102 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3104 New emacs-interface features
3105 ----------------------------
3107 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3109 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3110 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3111 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3112 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3113 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3114 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3116 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3118 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3119 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3120 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3121 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3123 User-selectable From address
3125 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3126 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3127 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3128 will prompt for the from address to use.
3130 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3131 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3132 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3134 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3135 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3136 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3139 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3141 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3142 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3144 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3146 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3148 ----- Original Message -----
3150 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3151 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3152 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3153 citations work much like conventional citations.
3155 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3157 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3158 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3159 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3160 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3161 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3163 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3164 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3166 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3168 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3169 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3170 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3172 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3174 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3175 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3176 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3177 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3178 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3180 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3182 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3185 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3187 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3189 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3191 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3194 Vim interface improvements
3195 --------------------------
3197 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3199 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3200 * Implementing archive in show view
3201 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3202 * Add delete commands
3205 Bindings improvements
3206 ---------------------
3208 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3210 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3211 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3213 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3215 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3219 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3220 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3221 `list(Messages)` works now
3222 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3224 These allow, for example:
3226 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3228 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3230 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3236 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3238 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3241 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3243 New build-system features
3244 -------------------------
3246 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3248 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3249 the configure script from some other directory:
3256 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3258 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3259 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3260 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3261 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3262 manual invocation of configure.
3264 New test-suite feature
3265 ----------------------
3267 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3269 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3270 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3271 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3272 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3273 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3276 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3278 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3279 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3280 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3281 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3282 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3283 are updated to take advantage of this.
3285 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3287 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3288 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3289 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3290 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3296 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3298 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3299 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3300 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3302 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3304 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3306 to:user@elsewhere.com
3308 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3310 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3312 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3314 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3315 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3316 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3319 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3320 from the Received headers in some cases
3322 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3323 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3325 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3327 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3329 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3331 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3332 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3333 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3335 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3336 -------------------------
3338 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3340 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3341 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3342 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3344 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3346 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3347 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3348 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3351 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3353 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3354 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3355 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3356 fixed to avoid this bug.
3358 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3360 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3361 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3363 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3364 ========================
3366 New, general features
3367 ---------------------
3369 Maildir-flag synchronization
3371 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3372 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3381 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3383 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3384 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3385 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3386 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3388 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3389 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3390 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3391 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3394 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3396 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3397 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3398 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3400 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3401 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3403 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3404 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3406 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3407 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3408 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3410 New library features
3411 --------------------
3413 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3415 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3416 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3417 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3418 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3420 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3421 message with the new function:
3423 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3425 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3426 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3427 over all available filenames for a given message.
3429 New command-line features
3430 -------------------------
3432 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3434 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3435 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3436 access to the mail store itself.
3438 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3439 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3440 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3441 name of a script containing:
3443 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3445 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3446 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3452 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3454 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3456 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3458 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3459 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3460 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3461 now produces nothing).
3463 Emacs interface improvements
3464 ----------------------------
3466 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3468 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3470 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3472 Display current thread subject in a header line
3474 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3476 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3478 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3479 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3480 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3481 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3482 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3483 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3484 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3486 Vim interface improvements
3487 --------------------------
3489 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3491 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3492 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3498 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3500 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3501 ========================
3503 New command-line features
3504 -------------------------
3506 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3508 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3509 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3510 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3512 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3513 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3514 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3515 scripts. For example:
3517 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3518 <operations-on> "$file"
3521 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3523 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3524 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3525 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3526 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3527 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3528 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3530 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3532 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3533 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3534 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3535 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3537 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3539 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3540 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3541 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3542 default rather than Bcc.
3544 New library features
3545 --------------------
3547 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3549 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3550 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3555 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3557 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3558 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3559 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3560 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3561 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3562 notmuch customize interface.
3564 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3566 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3567 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3568 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3569 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3571 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3573 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3574 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3575 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3576 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3578 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3580 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3581 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3582 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3583 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3584 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3585 notmuch customize interface.
3587 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3589 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3590 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3591 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3592 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3593 notmuch customize interface.
3595 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3597 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3598 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3599 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3600 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3603 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3605 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3606 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3607 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3610 New build-system features
3611 -------------------------
3613 Various portability fixes have been applied
3615 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3616 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3617 more portable than ever before.
3619 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3621 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3622 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3623 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3625 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3626 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3627 automatically run ldconfig.
3629 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3630 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3631 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3633 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3634 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3635 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3636 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3638 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3640 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3641 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3642 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3643 used in the resulting Makefile.
3645 New test-suite features
3646 -----------------------
3648 New modularization of test suite
3650 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3651 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3652 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3653 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3654 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3655 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3656 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3657 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3659 New testing of emacs interface
3661 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3662 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3663 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3664 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3665 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3666 database via the FCC setting.
3671 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3673 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3674 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3675 persistent error of the form:
3677 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3679 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3680 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3682 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3684 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3685 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3686 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3688 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3690 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3691 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3692 parsing the notmuch results).
3694 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3696 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3699 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3700 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3701 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3706 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3708 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3709 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3710 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3711 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3712 the emacs interface.
3714 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3716 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3717 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3718 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3720 Python-binding fixes
3721 --------------------
3723 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3725 Debian-specific fixes
3726 ---------------------
3728 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3730 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3731 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3732 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3735 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3736 ==========================
3741 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3743 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3744 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3745 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3746 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3748 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3750 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3751 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3752 want notmuch to crash.
3757 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3759 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3760 directory does not exist
3765 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3767 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3768 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3770 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3771 ========================
3773 New command-line features
3774 -------------------------
3776 User-configurable tags for new messages
3778 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3779 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3780 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3781 to specify this value.
3783 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3785 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3786 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3787 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3789 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3791 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3792 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3794 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3796 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3797 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3798 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3799 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3800 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3803 Indication of author names that match a search
3805 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3806 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3807 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3808 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3809 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3810 messages in the thread are listed first.
3812 New: Python bindings
3813 --------------------
3815 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3816 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3817 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3818 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3820 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3821 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3822 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3825 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3826 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3827 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3829 Emacs interface improvements
3830 ----------------------------
3832 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3834 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3835 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3836 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3837 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3838 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3839 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3840 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3841 but without any of the disadvantages).
3843 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3844 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3845 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3848 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3849 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3850 instead running something like:
3852 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3854 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3855 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3856 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3859 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3861 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3862 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3863 tweaked by the user.
3865 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3866 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3867 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3870 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3871 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3872 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3875 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3877 This support currently relies on an external program,
3878 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3879 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3880 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3881 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3882 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3885 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3886 notmuch) is available via:
3888 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3890 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3891 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3892 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3894 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3896 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3897 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3898 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3899 making this automatic in a future release.
3901 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3903 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3904 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3905 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3906 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3907 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3908 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3911 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3913 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3914 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3915 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3917 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3919 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3920 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3921 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3923 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3924 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3925 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3926 other representation.
3928 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3929 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3932 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3934 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3935 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3936 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3938 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3939 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3940 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3942 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3944 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3945 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3946 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3947 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3948 to display the search result.
3950 More flexible handling of header visibility
3952 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3953 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3954 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3955 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3956 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3957 with the 'h' keybinding.
3959 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3960 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3961 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3963 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3965 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3967 Customizable formatting of search results
3969 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3970 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3971 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3973 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3975 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3977 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3982 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3984 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3985 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3986 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3987 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3993 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3995 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3996 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3998 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4000 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4001 accept are now all accepted.
4006 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4008 Better display of output from failed tests
4010 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4011 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4013 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4014 ========================
4016 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4017 detailed release notes this time!
4019 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4020 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4022 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4023 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4024 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4025 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4032 Better guessing of From: header
4034 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4035 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4036 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4037 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4038 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4041 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4043 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4044 guaranteed to match all messages.
4046 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4048 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4049 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4050 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4051 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4052 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4055 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4058 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4059 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4060 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4061 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4066 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4068 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4069 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4070 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4071 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4073 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4075 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4077 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4078 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4079 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4081 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4083 Previously, the user might see:
4085 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4089 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4091 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4092 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4093 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4094 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4096 Emacs client features
4097 ---------------------
4099 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4101 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4102 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4103 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4104 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4105 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4107 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4110 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4111 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4112 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4113 search with the '*' binding.
4115 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4117 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4118 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4121 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4123 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4124 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4125 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4127 Build-system features
4128 ---------------------
4130 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4132 Add support to configure for many standard options
4134 We include actual support for:
4136 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4138 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4140 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4141 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4143 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4144 separate "make install-emacs"
4146 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4148 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4149 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4150 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4152 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4155 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4156 ========================
4158 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4160 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4161 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4163 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4164 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4165 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4166 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4167 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4168 tags from messages in a thread.
4175 indent-tabs-mode: nil