1 Notmuch 0.28 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
4 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
5 =========================
10 Add support for thread:{} queries
12 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
13 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
14 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
16 Command Line Interface
17 ----------------------
19 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
21 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
23 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
25 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
26 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
27 does not have to be available during message receipt.
32 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
38 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
39 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
41 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
42 ===========================
47 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
49 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
50 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
51 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
53 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
55 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
56 related abort in `notmuch show`.
58 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
59 ===========================
64 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
65 better late than never.
68 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
69 =========================
71 Command Line Interface
72 ----------------------
74 Support for re-indexing existing messages
76 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
77 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
78 change the way specific messages are indexed.
80 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
81 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
82 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
84 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
86 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
88 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
90 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
91 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
92 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
93 the setting of `new.tags`.
95 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
97 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
99 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
101 This inserts into the top level folder.
103 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
105 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
107 New option --output=address for notmuch address
109 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
111 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
113 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
114 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
115 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
117 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
122 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
124 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
125 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
126 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
127 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
128 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
129 config set index.decrypt true".
131 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
132 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
133 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
134 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
135 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
136 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
137 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
138 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
140 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
141 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
142 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
143 this feature without considering the security of your index.
148 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
150 Use make-process when available
152 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
153 notmuch command without using temporary files.
158 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
160 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
161 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
162 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
163 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
165 New functions to count files
167 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
168 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
170 New function to remove properties
172 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
173 drop all properties with a common pattern:
174 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
176 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
178 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
179 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
180 possibility of NULL was not documented.
182 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
184 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
185 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
186 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
187 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
188 operator may decide to change from message to message.
195 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
196 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
197 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
203 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
205 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
206 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
208 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
210 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
212 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
214 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
219 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
220 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
222 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
223 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
224 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
225 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
226 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
227 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
232 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
234 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
235 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
236 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
237 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
239 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
240 ===========================
245 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
246 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
249 Command Line Interface
250 ----------------------
252 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
253 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
256 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
257 ===========================
259 Command Line Interface
260 ----------------------
262 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
263 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
268 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
271 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
272 ===========================
277 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
280 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
281 =========================
286 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
288 Skip HTML tags when indexing
290 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
292 Command Line Interface
293 ----------------------
295 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
297 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
302 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
304 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
305 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
308 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
313 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
315 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
316 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
318 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
320 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
321 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
324 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
326 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
328 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
330 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
331 ===========================
333 Command Line Interface
334 ----------------------
336 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
341 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
343 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
344 ===========================
349 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
351 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
352 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
355 Command Line Interface
356 ----------------------
358 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
360 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
362 Fix bug in dump header
364 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
365 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
366 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
371 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
373 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
374 =========================
379 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
381 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
384 Command Line Interface
385 ----------------------
387 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
389 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
390 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
391 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
393 New default output format to 3
395 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
396 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
397 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
398 default format changes.
403 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
405 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
406 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
407 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
408 or tree view to resume.
410 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
411 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
412 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
415 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
416 they were when you postponed in the final message.
420 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
421 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
422 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
423 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
424 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
428 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
429 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
430 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
431 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
432 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
433 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
437 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
438 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
440 Stop display of `application/*` parts
442 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
443 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
444 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
445 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
446 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
447 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
448 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
449 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
452 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
454 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
455 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
456 only tagged the current thread.)
458 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
460 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
461 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
462 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
464 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
466 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
467 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
468 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
469 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
470 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
471 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
472 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
474 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
476 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
477 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
478 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
483 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
485 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
488 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
490 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
493 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
494 ===========================
499 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
501 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
502 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
503 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
506 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
507 ===========================
509 Command Line Interface
510 ----------------------
512 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
517 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
519 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
520 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
521 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
523 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
524 ===========================
529 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
530 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
532 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
533 ===========================
535 Command Line Interface
536 ----------------------
538 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
540 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
541 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
542 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
547 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
549 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
550 ===========================
552 Command Line Interface
553 ----------------------
555 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
560 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
562 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
563 ===========================
568 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
570 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
571 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
572 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
574 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
576 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
578 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
579 ===========================
584 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
586 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
591 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
593 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
594 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
595 the original colours.
597 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
598 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
600 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
602 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
603 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
604 bug, and hence the test.
606 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
607 =========================
609 General (Xapian 1.4+)
610 ---------------------
612 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
614 Support for single argument date: queries
616 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
618 Support for blocking opens
620 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
621 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
623 Support for named queries
625 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
626 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
627 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
634 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
635 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
636 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
637 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
639 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
641 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
646 Support for compile time options
648 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
649 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
652 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
654 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
655 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
656 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
657 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
658 scripts to ignore it.
663 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
665 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
666 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
667 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
669 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
670 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
671 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
672 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
673 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
674 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
675 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
677 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
678 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
681 Make internal address completion customizable
683 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
684 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
685 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
686 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
689 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
691 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
692 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
693 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
694 completion for the current buffer.
696 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
697 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
698 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
702 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
703 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
704 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
705 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
706 will be added instead.
708 Face customization is easier
710 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
711 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
712 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
713 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
715 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
720 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
725 Go bindings moved to contrib
727 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
729 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
731 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
732 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
734 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
736 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
737 ===========================
744 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
745 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
747 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
749 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
751 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
752 ===========================
757 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
759 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
764 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
769 Use `env` to locate perl.
774 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
776 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
778 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
780 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
782 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
783 =========================
790 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
791 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
793 Limited support for S/MIME messages
795 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
796 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
797 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
802 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
803 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
804 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
806 Command Line Interface
807 ----------------------
809 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
811 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
816 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
821 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
823 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
824 parts are now included in replies.
826 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
827 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
828 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
829 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
831 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
833 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
835 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
837 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
838 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
839 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
840 forwards only the current message.
842 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
844 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
845 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
846 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
847 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
848 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
849 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
850 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
851 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
854 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
855 longer generate empty buffers
857 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
858 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
859 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
860 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
861 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
863 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
865 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
868 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
870 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
873 Address completion improvements
875 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
876 you previously configured one, customize the variable
877 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
878 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
879 interactive address completion.
881 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
883 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
884 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
885 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
890 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
891 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
892 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
898 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
899 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
900 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
901 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
902 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
903 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
905 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
906 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
907 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
908 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
909 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
910 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
912 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
913 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
915 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
916 =========================
921 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
924 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
926 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
927 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
928 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
930 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
931 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
933 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
934 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
935 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
937 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
939 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
940 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
941 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
942 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
943 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
944 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
949 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
950 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
953 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
956 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
958 Command Line Interface
959 ----------------------
961 Database revision tracking
963 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
964 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
965 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
966 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
968 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
970 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
971 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
972 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
973 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
974 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
975 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
976 manual page for further information.
981 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
983 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
984 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
986 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
988 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
989 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
990 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
992 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
994 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
996 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
997 customization as well.
999 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1001 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1003 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1005 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1007 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1008 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1009 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1010 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1012 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1014 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1015 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1016 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1017 this variable to 10000.
1022 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1023 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1025 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1027 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1028 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1029 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1030 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1031 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1032 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1033 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1034 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1035 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1038 Database revision tracking
1040 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1041 query parser and the new function
1042 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1044 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1046 Deprecated functions
1048 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1049 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1050 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1051 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1056 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1058 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1059 ===========================
1064 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1066 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1067 ===========================
1072 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1074 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1075 =========================
1077 Command-Line Interface
1078 ----------------------
1080 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1082 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1083 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1084 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1086 Path to gpg is now configurable
1088 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1089 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1094 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1096 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1101 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1106 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1111 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1113 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1114 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1116 New error logging facility
1118 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1119 output formerly printed to stderr.
1121 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1123 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1125 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1127 Fix for rounding of seconds
1132 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1134 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1135 documentation has been removed.
1137 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1139 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1140 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1145 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1146 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1147 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1152 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1153 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1154 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1155 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1156 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1157 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1160 git checkout config origin/config
1162 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1164 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1165 =========================
1170 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1171 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1172 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1173 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1174 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1175 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1176 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1178 Command-Line Interface
1179 ----------------------
1181 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1183 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1184 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1185 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1186 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1187 script callers should still check the return value.
1189 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1191 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1192 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1193 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1194 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1195 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1196 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1197 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1199 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1201 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1202 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1203 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1205 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1207 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1208 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1209 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1210 currently unmaintained.
1212 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1214 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1215 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1216 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1217 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1219 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1221 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1222 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1223 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1224 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1225 count of duplicate addresses.
1230 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1232 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1233 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1234 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1237 Improved handling of the unread tag
1239 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1240 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1241 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1242 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1243 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1244 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1245 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1247 Expanded default saved search settings
1249 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1250 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1252 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1254 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1255 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1256 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1258 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1260 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1261 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1262 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1263 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1264 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1265 the variable for details.
1270 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1272 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1273 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1274 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1275 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1277 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1279 Previously, library users were required to call
1280 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1281 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1282 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1283 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1284 too out of date for that API.
1286 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1288 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1289 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1290 atomic section will be aborted.
1292 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1293 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1295 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1297 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1298 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1299 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1300 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1301 messages into the same thread.
1306 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1307 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1308 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1309 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1310 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1311 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1316 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1317 from the config file. Use something like:
1321 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1322 "footer": "</body></html>",
1331 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1336 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1337 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1338 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1340 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1341 ===========================
1346 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1348 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1350 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1352 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1353 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1355 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1357 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1360 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1361 ===========================
1363 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1368 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1370 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1372 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1374 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1376 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1382 Use --quick when starting emacs
1384 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1386 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1388 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1390 Command-Line Interface
1391 ----------------------
1393 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1394 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1399 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1401 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1402 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1404 Fix for phrase indexing
1406 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1407 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1408 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1413 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1415 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1416 unintentionally removed.
1418 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1419 =========================
1424 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1425 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1426 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1427 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1428 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1429 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1430 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1431 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1432 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1438 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1440 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1441 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1442 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1443 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1444 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1445 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1446 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1447 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1449 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1451 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1452 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1453 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1454 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1457 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1459 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1460 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1461 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1462 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1463 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1464 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1465 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1470 Notmuch database upgrade
1472 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1473 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1474 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1475 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1476 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1477 released version of Notmuch before now.
1479 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1481 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1482 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1483 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1484 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1486 Message header parsing changes
1488 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1489 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1490 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1491 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1492 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1493 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1495 Command-Line Interface
1496 ----------------------
1498 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1500 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1502 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1504 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1506 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1508 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1509 user does not want it.
1511 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1513 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1514 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1515 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1516 support formatted output.
1518 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1520 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1521 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1522 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1530 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1531 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1532 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1533 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1534 `~/.emacs` with these.
1536 Changed format for saved searches
1538 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1539 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1540 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1541 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1544 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1545 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1546 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1547 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1549 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1550 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1551 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1553 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1554 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1555 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1556 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1557 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1559 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1561 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1562 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1563 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1565 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1567 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1568 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1569 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1570 message had been unread).
1572 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1573 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1574 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1575 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1577 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1578 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1579 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1581 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1582 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1583 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1584 to tags already present.
1588 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1589 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1590 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1591 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1592 these differ from each other.
1593 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1595 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1597 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1598 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1599 for these Emacs versions.
1601 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1603 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1604 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1606 Bug fixes for sender identities
1608 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1609 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1610 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1612 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1614 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1615 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1616 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1617 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1619 Reply pushes mark before signature
1621 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1622 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1623 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1625 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1627 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1628 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1634 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1635 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1637 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1638 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1639 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1640 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1642 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1643 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1644 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1645 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1646 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1648 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1650 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1651 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1653 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1654 =========================
1656 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1657 ---------------------------------------
1659 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1660 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1661 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1662 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1663 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1664 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1665 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1669 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1670 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1672 Command-Line Interface
1673 ----------------------
1675 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1677 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1678 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1679 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1680 print for each message.
1682 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1683 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1684 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1685 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1687 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1689 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1690 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1691 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1693 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1695 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1696 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1697 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1698 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1700 `notmuch compact` command
1702 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1703 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1704 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1705 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1706 move the compacted database into place.
1711 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1713 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1714 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1715 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1716 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1717 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1718 and multiple threads.
1720 Using `notmuch-tree`
1722 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1724 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1725 search, show and tree mode itself)
1727 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1730 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1731 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1733 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1735 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1736 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1737 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1738 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1739 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1740 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1741 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1743 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1745 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1746 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1747 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1748 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1749 thread when the search was performed.
1751 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1753 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1754 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1755 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1757 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1759 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1760 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1763 Built-in help improvements
1765 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1766 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1767 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1769 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1771 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1772 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1773 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1775 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1777 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1778 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1780 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1782 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1783 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1784 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1785 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1787 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1789 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1790 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1791 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1792 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1794 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1796 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1797 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1798 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1800 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1802 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1803 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1804 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1806 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1808 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1809 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1810 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1811 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1812 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1814 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1816 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1817 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1818 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1819 the body part of the message.
1824 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1825 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1826 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1828 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1829 =========================
1831 Command-Line Interface
1832 ----------------------
1834 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1836 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1837 folder and notmuch index.
1839 `notmuch count --batch` option
1841 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1842 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1844 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1846 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1847 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1848 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1851 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1853 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1854 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1855 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1856 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1857 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1860 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1862 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1863 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1865 Top level option to specify configuration file
1867 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1868 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1870 Bash command-line completion
1872 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1873 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1874 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1875 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1876 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1877 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1878 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1879 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1880 bash-completion package.
1882 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1887 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1889 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1890 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1891 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1892 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1893 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1894 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1895 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1896 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1898 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1900 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1901 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1902 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1904 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1906 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1907 previous thread in the search results.
1909 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1911 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1912 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1914 Faster search and show
1916 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1917 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1918 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1919 threads should show faster.
1923 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1924 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1925 in question was now removed from this release.
1930 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1931 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1936 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1938 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1939 ===========================
1944 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1946 Internal test framework changes
1947 -------------------------------
1949 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1950 being unimplemented.
1952 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1953 ===========================
1955 Internal test framework changes
1956 -------------------------------
1958 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1959 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1961 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1962 =========================
1967 Date range search support
1969 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1970 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1971 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1972 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1973 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1976 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1978 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1979 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1980 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1981 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1982 but may be removed in a future release.
1984 Command-Line Interface
1985 ----------------------
1987 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1989 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1990 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1992 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1994 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1995 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1996 officially deprecated.
1998 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2000 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2001 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2002 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2004 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2006 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2007 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2010 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2011 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2012 dump/restore format.
2014 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2016 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2017 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2018 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2020 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2022 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2023 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2024 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2026 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2028 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2029 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2030 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2031 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2036 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2038 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2039 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2040 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2041 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2043 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2045 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2046 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2047 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2048 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2049 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2050 the behavior of this, see
2051 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2052 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2054 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2055 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2056 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2058 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2060 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2061 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2064 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2066 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2067 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2068 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2069 simply displayed in place of the message.
2071 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2073 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2074 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2076 Improved text/calendar content handling
2078 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2079 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2080 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2081 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2083 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2085 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2086 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2087 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2088 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2090 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2092 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2093 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2094 for HTML email containing images.
2096 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2098 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2100 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2102 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2105 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2107 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2108 the point where it was.
2110 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2112 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2113 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2114 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2115 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2116 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2118 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2120 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2121 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2122 thread instead of the message id.
2124 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2125 -----------------------------
2127 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2128 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2129 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2130 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2131 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2132 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2133 further details and installation.
2138 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2140 Internal test framework changes
2141 -------------------------------
2143 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2145 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2146 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2147 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2148 can result in buggy behavior.
2150 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2151 =========================
2156 Maildir tag synchronization
2158 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2159 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2160 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2161 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2162 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2163 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2166 Command-Line Interface
2167 ----------------------
2169 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2170 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2171 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2172 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2173 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2179 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2181 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2183 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2184 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2185 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2187 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2189 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2190 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2191 span multiple lines.
2193 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2195 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2196 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2197 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2198 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2199 inside the result or message.
2201 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2203 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2204 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2206 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2207 user-specified formatting
2209 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2210 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2211 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2212 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2213 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2215 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2216 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2218 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2219 ===========================
2224 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2225 compilation error for this contrib package.
2227 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2228 ===========================
2233 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2235 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2236 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2237 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2238 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2240 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2241 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2244 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2245 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2246 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2247 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2250 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2252 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2255 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2256 =========================
2258 Command-Line Interface
2259 ----------------------
2263 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2264 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2265 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2266 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2268 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2269 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2270 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2271 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2275 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2276 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2278 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2279 tag in your query, for example:
2281 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2283 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2284 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2286 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2287 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2289 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2291 Raw show format changes
2293 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2294 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2295 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2296 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2297 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2298 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2299 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2300 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2302 Listing configuration items
2304 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2310 Changes to tagging interface
2312 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2313 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2314 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2315 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2316 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2317 for more information.
2319 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2320 may need to update in custom configurations.
2322 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2324 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2325 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2326 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2327 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2330 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2331 -----------------------------
2333 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2334 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2335 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2336 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2337 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2338 contrib/ from now on.
2343 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2344 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2346 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2347 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2349 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2350 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2351 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2353 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2354 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2356 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2357 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2358 returning the new database object or directory object.
2365 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2366 compatible with go 1.
2368 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2369 =========================
2371 Command-Line Interface
2372 ----------------------
2376 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2377 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2378 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2379 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2381 Mail store folder/file ignore
2383 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2384 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2385 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2387 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2388 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2390 Unified help and manual pages
2392 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2393 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2396 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2398 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2399 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2407 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2408 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2409 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2410 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2412 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2414 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2415 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2417 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2420 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2421 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2422 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2424 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2426 should be changed to:
2428 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2430 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2432 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2433 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2435 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2437 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2438 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2439 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2440 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2441 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2442 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2446 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2447 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2448 of Mailing List Archives.
2450 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2452 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2453 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2456 Show view archiving key binding changes
2458 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2459 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2460 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2461 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2462 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2465 Support text/calendar MIME type
2467 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2470 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2472 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2473 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2474 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2475 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2477 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2479 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2480 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2481 messages blue by default in the search view.
2485 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2486 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2493 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2496 Python bindings changes
2497 -----------------------
2499 Python 3.2 compatibility
2501 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2503 Added missing unicode conversions
2505 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2506 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2507 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2512 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2514 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2515 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2516 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2517 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2518 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2520 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2521 ===========================
2526 Fix error handling in python bindings
2528 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2529 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2530 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2531 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2533 Quote MML tags in replies
2535 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2536 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2537 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2538 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2539 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2540 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2541 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2542 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2544 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2545 =========================
2547 Command-Line Interface
2548 ----------------------
2552 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2553 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2554 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2555 importing new messages into the database.
2557 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2559 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2560 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2561 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2566 Automatic tag query optimization
2568 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2569 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2570 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2572 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2574 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2575 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2576 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2581 Reduction of memory leaks
2583 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2584 and fixed in this release.
2591 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2592 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2593 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2596 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2598 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2599 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2600 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2603 Improvements in saved search management
2605 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2606 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2607 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2609 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2611 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2612 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2613 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2615 New face for crypto parts headers
2617 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2618 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2619 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2622 Use space as default thousands separator
2624 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2625 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2626 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2628 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2629 buttonized id: links
2631 New function notmuch-show-advance
2633 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2634 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2635 be bound to SPC with:
2637 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2639 Various performance improvements
2644 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2645 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2648 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2649 ===========================
2654 Fix crash in python bindings
2656 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2657 for some, but not all users.
2659 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2660 ===========================
2665 Fix `--help` argument
2667 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2668 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2669 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2671 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2672 =========================
2674 New build and testing features
2675 ------------------------------
2677 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2678 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2679 prerequisites is improved.
2681 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2683 New command-line features
2684 -------------------------
2686 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2688 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2689 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2692 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2694 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2695 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2696 favour of using stdout.
2698 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2700 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2701 limit the number of results shown.
2703 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2705 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2706 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2709 New emacs UI features
2710 ---------------------
2712 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2714 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2715 starting with "tag:".
2717 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2719 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2720 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2722 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2724 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2726 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2728 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2729 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2734 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2736 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2738 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2739 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2740 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2741 requires a database rebuild:
2743 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2744 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2746 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2748 New collection of add-on tools
2749 ------------------------------
2751 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2752 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2753 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2756 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2758 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2759 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2760 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2762 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2763 ========================
2765 New, general features
2766 ---------------------
2768 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2770 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2771 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2772 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2773 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2774 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2781 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2782 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2784 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2788 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2789 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2790 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2793 Python bindings changes
2794 -----------------------
2796 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2798 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2799 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2800 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2801 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2802 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2803 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2805 Ruby bindings changes
2806 ---------------------
2808 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2809 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2810 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2811 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2816 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2818 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2819 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2821 Reply formatting cleanup
2822 ------------------------
2824 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2825 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2827 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2828 ========================
2830 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2832 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2833 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2834 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2835 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2838 Improved Build system portability
2840 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2841 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2842 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2844 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2846 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2848 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2850 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2851 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2852 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2854 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2855 ========================
2857 Vim interface improvements
2858 --------------------------
2860 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2862 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2863 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2864 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2865 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2866 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2868 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2870 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2871 * fix compose temp file name
2873 Python Bindings changes
2874 -----------------------
2876 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2878 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2879 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2881 Build-System improvements
2882 -------------------------
2884 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2886 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2889 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2890 ==========================
2895 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2897 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2898 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2900 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2901 =======================
2903 New, general features
2904 ---------------------
2906 Folder-based searching
2908 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2909 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2910 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2914 For example, one might use things such as:
2920 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2921 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2923 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2924 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2925 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2926 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2928 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2929 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2930 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2933 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2934 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2936 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2938 Support for PGP/MIME
2940 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2941 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2942 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2944 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2946 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2947 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2949 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2950 notmuch will receive these tags.
2952 New command-line features
2953 -------------------------
2955 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2957 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2958 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2960 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2962 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2963 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2964 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2966 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2968 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2969 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2970 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2971 which parts a signature part applies).
2973 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2975 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2976 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2977 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2978 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2979 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2982 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2984 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2985 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2986 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2987 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2988 by translating it internally to the new call.
2990 Performance improvements
2991 ------------------------
2993 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2995 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2996 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2997 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2999 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3000 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3002 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3004 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3005 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3006 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3008 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3009 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3010 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3011 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3013 Faster initial indexing
3015 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3016 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3017 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3019 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3021 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3022 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3023 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3024 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3026 New emacs-interface features
3027 ----------------------------
3029 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3031 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3032 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3033 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3034 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3035 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3036 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3038 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3040 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3041 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3042 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3043 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3045 User-selectable From address
3047 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3048 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3049 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3050 will prompt for the from address to use.
3052 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3053 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3054 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3056 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3057 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3058 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3061 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3063 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3064 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3066 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3068 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3070 ----- Original Message -----
3072 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3073 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3074 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3075 citations work much like conventional citations.
3077 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3079 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3080 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3081 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3082 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3083 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3085 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3086 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3088 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3090 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3091 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3092 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3094 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3096 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3097 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3098 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3099 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3100 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3102 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3104 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3107 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3109 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3111 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3113 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3116 Vim interface improvements
3117 --------------------------
3119 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3121 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3122 * Implementing archive in show view
3123 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3124 * Add delete commands
3127 Bindings improvements
3128 ---------------------
3130 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3132 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3133 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3135 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3137 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3141 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3142 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3143 `list(Messages)` works now
3144 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3146 These allow, for example:
3148 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3150 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3152 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3158 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3160 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3163 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3165 New build-system features
3166 -------------------------
3168 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3170 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3171 the configure script from some other directory:
3178 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3180 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3181 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3182 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3183 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3184 manual invocation of configure.
3186 New test-suite feature
3187 ----------------------
3189 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3191 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3192 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3193 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3194 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3195 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3198 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3200 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3201 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3202 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3203 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3204 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3205 are updated to take advantage of this.
3207 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3209 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3210 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3211 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3212 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3218 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3220 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3221 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3222 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3224 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3226 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3228 to:user@elsewhere.com
3230 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3232 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3234 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3236 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3237 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3238 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3241 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3242 from the Received headers in some cases
3244 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3245 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3247 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3249 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3251 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3253 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3254 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3255 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3257 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3258 -------------------------
3260 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3262 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3263 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3264 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3266 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3268 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3269 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3270 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3273 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3275 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3276 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3277 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3278 fixed to avoid this bug.
3280 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3282 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3283 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3285 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3286 ========================
3288 New, general features
3289 ---------------------
3291 Maildir-flag synchronization
3293 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3294 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3303 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3305 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3306 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3307 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3308 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3310 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3311 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3312 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3313 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3316 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3318 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3319 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3320 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3322 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3323 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3325 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3326 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3328 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3329 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3330 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3332 New library features
3333 --------------------
3335 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3337 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3338 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3339 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3340 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3342 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3343 message with the new function:
3345 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3347 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3348 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3349 over all available filenames for a given message.
3351 New command-line features
3352 -------------------------
3354 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3356 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3357 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3358 access to the mail store itself.
3360 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3361 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3362 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3363 name of a script containing:
3365 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3367 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3368 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3374 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3376 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3378 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3380 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3381 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3382 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3383 now produces nothing).
3385 Emacs interface improvements
3386 ----------------------------
3388 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3390 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3392 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3394 Display current thread subject in a header line
3396 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3398 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3400 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3401 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3402 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3403 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3404 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3405 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3406 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3408 Vim interface improvements
3409 --------------------------
3411 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3413 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3414 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3420 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3422 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3423 ========================
3425 New command-line features
3426 -------------------------
3428 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3430 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3431 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3432 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3434 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3435 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3436 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3437 scripts. For example:
3439 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3440 <operations-on> "$file"
3443 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3445 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3446 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3447 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3448 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3449 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3450 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3452 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3454 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3455 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3456 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3457 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3459 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3461 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3462 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3463 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3464 default rather than Bcc.
3466 New library features
3467 --------------------
3469 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3471 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3472 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3477 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3479 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3480 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3481 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3482 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3483 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3484 notmuch customize interface.
3486 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3488 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3489 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3490 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3491 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3493 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3495 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3496 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3497 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3498 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3500 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3502 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3503 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3504 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3505 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3506 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3507 notmuch customize interface.
3509 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3511 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3512 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3513 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3514 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3515 notmuch customize interface.
3517 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3519 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3520 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3521 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3522 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3525 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3527 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3528 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3529 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3532 New build-system features
3533 -------------------------
3535 Various portability fixes have been applied
3537 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3538 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3539 more portable than ever before.
3541 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3543 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3544 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3545 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3547 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3548 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3549 automatically run ldconfig.
3551 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3552 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3553 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3555 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3556 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3557 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3558 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3560 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3562 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3563 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3564 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3565 used in the resulting Makefile.
3567 New test-suite features
3568 -----------------------
3570 New modularization of test suite
3572 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3573 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3574 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3575 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3576 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3577 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3578 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3579 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3581 New testing of emacs interface
3583 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3584 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3585 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3586 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3587 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3588 database via the FCC setting.
3593 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3595 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3596 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3597 persistent error of the form:
3599 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3601 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3602 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3604 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3606 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3607 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3608 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3610 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3612 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3613 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3614 parsing the notmuch results).
3616 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3618 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3621 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3622 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3623 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3628 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3630 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3631 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3632 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3633 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3634 the emacs interface.
3636 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3638 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3639 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3640 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3642 Python-binding fixes
3643 --------------------
3645 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3647 Debian-specific fixes
3648 ---------------------
3650 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3652 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3653 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3654 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3657 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3658 ==========================
3663 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3665 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3666 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3667 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3668 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3670 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3672 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3673 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3674 want notmuch to crash.
3679 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3681 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3682 directory does not exist
3687 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3689 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3690 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3692 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3693 ========================
3695 New command-line features
3696 -------------------------
3698 User-configurable tags for new messages
3700 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3701 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3702 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3703 to specify this value.
3705 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3707 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3708 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3709 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3711 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3713 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3714 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3716 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3718 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3719 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3720 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3721 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3722 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3725 Indication of author names that match a search
3727 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3728 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3729 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3730 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3731 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3732 messages in the thread are listed first.
3734 New: Python bindings
3735 --------------------
3737 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3738 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3739 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3740 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3742 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3743 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3744 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3747 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3748 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3749 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3751 Emacs interface improvements
3752 ----------------------------
3754 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3756 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3757 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3758 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3759 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3760 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3761 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3762 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3763 but without any of the disadvantages).
3765 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3766 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3767 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3770 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3771 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3772 instead running something like:
3774 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3776 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3777 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3778 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3781 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3783 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3784 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3785 tweaked by the user.
3787 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3788 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3789 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3792 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3793 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3794 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3797 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3799 This support currently relies on an external program,
3800 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3801 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3802 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3803 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3804 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3807 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3808 notmuch) is available via:
3810 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3812 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3813 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3814 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3816 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3818 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3819 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3820 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3821 making this automatic in a future release.
3823 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3825 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3826 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3827 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3828 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3829 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3830 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3833 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3835 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3836 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3837 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3839 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3841 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3842 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3843 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3845 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3846 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3847 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3848 other representation.
3850 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3851 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3854 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3856 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3857 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3858 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3860 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3861 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3862 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3864 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3866 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3867 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3868 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3869 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3870 to display the search result.
3872 More flexible handling of header visibility
3874 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3875 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3876 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3877 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3878 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3879 with the 'h' keybinding.
3881 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3882 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3883 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3885 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3887 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3889 Customizable formatting of search results
3891 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3892 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3893 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3895 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3897 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3899 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3904 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3906 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3907 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3908 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3909 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3915 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3917 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3918 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3920 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3922 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3923 accept are now all accepted.
3928 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3930 Better display of output from failed tests
3932 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3933 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3935 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3936 ========================
3938 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3939 detailed release notes this time!
3941 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3942 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3944 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3945 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3946 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3947 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3954 Better guessing of From: header
3956 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3957 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3958 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3959 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3960 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3963 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3965 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3966 guaranteed to match all messages.
3968 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3970 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3971 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3972 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3973 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3974 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3977 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3980 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3981 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3982 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3983 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3988 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3990 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3991 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3992 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3993 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3995 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3997 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3999 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4000 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4001 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4003 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4005 Previously, the user might see:
4007 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4011 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4013 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4014 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4015 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4016 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4018 Emacs client features
4019 ---------------------
4021 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4023 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4024 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4025 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4026 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4027 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4029 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4032 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4033 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4034 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4035 search with the '*' binding.
4037 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4039 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4040 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4043 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4045 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4046 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4047 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4049 Build-system features
4050 ---------------------
4052 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4054 Add support to configure for many standard options
4056 We include actual support for:
4058 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4060 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4062 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4063 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4065 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4066 separate "make install-emacs"
4068 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4070 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4071 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4072 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4074 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4077 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4078 ========================
4080 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4082 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4083 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4085 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4086 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4087 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4088 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4089 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4090 tags from messages in a thread.
4097 indent-tabs-mode: nil