1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
13 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
15 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
16 and may be removed in a future release.
18 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
19 ===========================
21 Command line interface
22 ----------------------
24 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
25 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
27 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
28 ===========================
33 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
34 by message properties.
39 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
41 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
42 ===========================
47 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
52 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
53 now needed to build this documentation.
55 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
56 ===========================
61 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
62 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
64 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
65 =========================
72 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
73 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
74 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
75 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
76 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
79 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
81 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
82 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
83 correct encoding for such messages.
85 Command Line Interface
86 ----------------------
88 Support relative database paths
90 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
91 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
92 to $HOME of the invoking user.
97 Improve stderr handling
99 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
100 needed on e.g. macOS.
102 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
104 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
109 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
110 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
116 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
117 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
123 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
124 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
127 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
128 =========================
133 Add support for thread:{} queries
135 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
136 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
137 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
139 Command Line Interface
140 ----------------------
142 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
144 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
146 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
148 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
149 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
150 does not have to be available during message receipt.
155 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
161 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
162 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
164 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
165 ===========================
170 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
172 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
173 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
174 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
176 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
178 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
179 related abort in `notmuch show`.
181 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
182 ===========================
187 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
188 better late than never.
191 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
192 =========================
194 Command Line Interface
195 ----------------------
197 Support for re-indexing existing messages
199 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
200 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
201 change the way specific messages are indexed.
203 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
204 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
205 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
207 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
209 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
211 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
213 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
214 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
215 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
216 the setting of `new.tags`.
218 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
220 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
222 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
224 This inserts into the top level folder.
226 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
228 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
230 New option --output=address for notmuch address
232 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
234 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
236 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
237 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
238 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
240 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
245 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
247 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
248 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
249 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
250 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
251 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
252 config set index.decrypt true".
254 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
255 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
256 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
257 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
258 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
259 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
260 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
261 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
263 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
264 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
265 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
266 this feature without considering the security of your index.
271 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
273 Use make-process when available
275 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
276 notmuch command without using temporary files.
281 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
283 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
284 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
285 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
286 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
288 New functions to count files
290 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
291 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
293 New function to remove properties
295 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
296 drop all properties with a common pattern:
297 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
299 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
301 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
302 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
303 possibility of NULL was not documented.
305 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
307 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
308 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
309 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
310 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
311 operator may decide to change from message to message.
318 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
319 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
320 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
326 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
328 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
329 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
331 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
333 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
335 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
337 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
342 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
343 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
345 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
346 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
347 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
348 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
349 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
350 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
355 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
357 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
358 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
359 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
360 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
362 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
363 ===========================
368 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
369 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
372 Command Line Interface
373 ----------------------
375 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
376 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
379 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
380 ===========================
382 Command Line Interface
383 ----------------------
385 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
386 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
391 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
394 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
395 ===========================
400 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
403 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
404 =========================
409 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
411 Skip HTML tags when indexing
413 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
415 Command Line Interface
416 ----------------------
418 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
420 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
425 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
427 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
428 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
431 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
436 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
438 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
439 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
441 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
443 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
444 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
447 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
449 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
451 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
453 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
454 ===========================
456 Command Line Interface
457 ----------------------
459 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
464 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
466 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
467 ===========================
472 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
474 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
475 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
478 Command Line Interface
479 ----------------------
481 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
483 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
485 Fix bug in dump header
487 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
488 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
489 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
494 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
496 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
497 =========================
502 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
504 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
507 Command Line Interface
508 ----------------------
510 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
512 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
513 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
514 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
516 New default output format to 3
518 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
519 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
520 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
521 default format changes.
526 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
528 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
529 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
530 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
531 or tree view to resume.
533 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
534 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
535 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
538 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
539 they were when you postponed in the final message.
543 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
544 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
545 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
546 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
547 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
551 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
552 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
553 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
554 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
555 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
556 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
560 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
561 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
563 Stop display of `application/*` parts
565 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
566 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
567 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
568 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
569 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
570 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
571 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
572 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
575 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
577 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
578 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
579 only tagged the current thread.)
581 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
583 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
584 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
585 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
587 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
589 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
590 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
591 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
592 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
593 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
594 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
595 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
597 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
599 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
600 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
601 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
606 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
608 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
611 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
613 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
616 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
617 ===========================
622 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
624 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
625 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
626 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
629 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
630 ===========================
632 Command Line Interface
633 ----------------------
635 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
640 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
642 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
643 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
644 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
646 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
647 ===========================
652 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
653 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
655 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
656 ===========================
658 Command Line Interface
659 ----------------------
661 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
663 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
664 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
665 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
670 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
672 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
673 ===========================
675 Command Line Interface
676 ----------------------
678 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
683 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
685 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
686 ===========================
691 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
693 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
694 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
695 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
697 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
699 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
701 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
702 ===========================
707 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
709 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
714 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
716 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
717 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
718 the original colours.
720 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
721 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
723 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
725 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
726 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
727 bug, and hence the test.
729 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
730 =========================
732 General (Xapian 1.4+)
733 ---------------------
735 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
737 Support for single argument date: queries
739 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
741 Support for blocking opens
743 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
744 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
746 Support for named queries
748 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
749 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
750 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
757 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
758 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
759 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
760 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
762 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
764 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
769 Support for compile time options
771 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
772 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
775 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
777 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
778 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
779 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
780 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
781 scripts to ignore it.
786 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
788 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
789 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
790 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
792 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
793 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
794 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
795 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
796 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
797 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
798 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
800 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
801 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
804 Make internal address completion customizable
806 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
807 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
808 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
809 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
812 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
814 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
815 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
816 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
817 completion for the current buffer.
819 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
820 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
821 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
825 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
826 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
827 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
828 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
829 will be added instead.
831 Face customization is easier
833 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
834 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
835 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
836 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
838 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
843 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
848 Go bindings moved to contrib
850 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
852 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
854 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
855 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
857 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
859 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
860 ===========================
867 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
868 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
870 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
872 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
874 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
875 ===========================
880 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
882 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
887 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
892 Use `env` to locate perl.
897 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
899 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
901 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
903 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
905 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
906 =========================
913 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
914 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
916 Limited support for S/MIME messages
918 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
919 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
920 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
925 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
926 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
927 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
929 Command Line Interface
930 ----------------------
932 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
934 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
939 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
944 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
946 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
947 parts are now included in replies.
949 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
950 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
951 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
952 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
954 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
956 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
958 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
960 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
961 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
962 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
963 forwards only the current message.
965 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
967 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
968 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
969 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
970 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
971 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
972 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
973 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
974 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
977 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
978 longer generate empty buffers
980 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
981 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
982 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
983 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
984 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
986 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
988 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
991 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
993 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
996 Address completion improvements
998 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
999 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1000 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1001 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1002 interactive address completion.
1004 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1006 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1007 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1008 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1013 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1014 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1015 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1021 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1022 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1023 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1024 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1025 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1026 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1028 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1029 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1030 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1031 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1032 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1033 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1035 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1036 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1038 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1039 =========================
1044 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1047 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1049 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1050 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1051 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1053 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1054 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1056 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1057 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1058 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1060 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1062 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1063 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1064 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1065 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1066 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1067 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1072 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1073 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1076 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1077 option to configure.
1079 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1081 Command Line Interface
1082 ----------------------
1084 Database revision tracking
1086 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1087 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1088 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1089 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1091 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1093 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1094 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1095 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1096 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1097 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1098 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1099 manual page for further information.
1104 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1106 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1107 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1109 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1111 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1112 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1113 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1115 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1117 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1119 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1120 customization as well.
1122 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1124 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1126 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1128 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1130 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1131 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1132 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1133 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1135 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1137 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1138 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1139 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1140 this variable to 10000.
1145 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1146 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1148 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1150 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1151 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1152 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1153 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1154 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1155 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1156 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1157 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1158 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1161 Database revision tracking
1163 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1164 query parser and the new function
1165 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1167 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1169 Deprecated functions
1171 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1172 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1173 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1174 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1179 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1181 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1182 ===========================
1187 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1189 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1190 ===========================
1195 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1197 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1198 =========================
1200 Command-Line Interface
1201 ----------------------
1203 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1205 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1206 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1207 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1209 Path to gpg is now configurable
1211 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1212 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1217 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1219 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1224 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1229 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1234 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1236 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1237 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1239 New error logging facility
1241 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1242 output formerly printed to stderr.
1244 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1246 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1248 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1250 Fix for rounding of seconds
1255 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1257 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1258 documentation has been removed.
1260 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1262 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1263 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1268 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1269 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1270 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1275 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1276 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1277 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1278 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1279 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1280 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1283 git checkout config origin/config
1285 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1287 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1288 =========================
1293 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1294 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1295 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1296 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1297 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1298 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1299 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1301 Command-Line Interface
1302 ----------------------
1304 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1306 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1307 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1308 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1309 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1310 script callers should still check the return value.
1312 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1314 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1315 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1316 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1317 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1318 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1319 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1320 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1322 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1324 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1325 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1326 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1328 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1330 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1331 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1332 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1333 currently unmaintained.
1335 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1337 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1338 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1339 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1340 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1342 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1344 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1345 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1346 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1347 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1348 count of duplicate addresses.
1353 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1355 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1356 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1357 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1360 Improved handling of the unread tag
1362 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1363 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1364 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1365 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1366 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1367 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1368 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1370 Expanded default saved search settings
1372 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1373 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1375 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1377 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1378 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1379 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1381 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1383 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1384 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1385 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1386 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1387 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1388 the variable for details.
1393 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1395 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1396 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1397 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1398 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1400 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1402 Previously, library users were required to call
1403 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1404 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1405 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1406 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1407 too out of date for that API.
1409 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1411 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1412 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1413 atomic section will be aborted.
1415 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1416 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1418 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1420 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1421 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1422 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1423 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1424 messages into the same thread.
1429 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1430 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1431 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1432 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1433 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1434 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1439 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1440 from the config file. Use something like:
1444 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1445 "footer": "</body></html>",
1454 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1459 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1460 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1461 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1463 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1464 ===========================
1469 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1471 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1473 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1475 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1476 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1478 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1480 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1483 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1484 ===========================
1486 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1491 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1493 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1495 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1497 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1499 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1505 Use --quick when starting emacs
1507 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1509 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1511 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1513 Command-Line Interface
1514 ----------------------
1516 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1517 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1522 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1524 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1525 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1527 Fix for phrase indexing
1529 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1530 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1531 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1536 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1538 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1539 unintentionally removed.
1541 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1542 =========================
1547 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1548 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1549 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1550 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1551 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1552 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1553 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1554 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1555 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1561 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1563 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1564 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1565 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1566 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1567 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1568 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1569 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1570 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1572 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1574 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1575 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1576 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1577 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1580 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1582 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1583 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1584 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1585 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1586 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1587 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1588 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1593 Notmuch database upgrade
1595 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1596 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1597 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1598 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1599 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1600 released version of Notmuch before now.
1602 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1604 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1605 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1606 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1607 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1609 Message header parsing changes
1611 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1612 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1613 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1614 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1615 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1616 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1618 Command-Line Interface
1619 ----------------------
1621 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1623 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1625 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1627 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1629 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1631 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1632 user does not want it.
1634 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1636 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1637 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1638 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1639 support formatted output.
1641 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1643 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1644 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1645 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1653 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1654 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1655 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1656 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1657 `~/.emacs` with these.
1659 Changed format for saved searches
1661 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1662 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1663 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1664 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1667 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1668 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1669 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1670 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1672 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1673 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1674 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1676 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1677 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1678 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1679 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1680 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1682 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1684 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1685 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1686 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1688 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1690 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1691 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1692 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1693 message had been unread).
1695 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1696 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1697 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1698 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1700 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1701 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1702 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1704 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1705 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1706 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1707 to tags already present.
1711 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1712 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1713 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1714 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1715 these differ from each other.
1716 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1718 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1720 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1721 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1722 for these Emacs versions.
1724 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1726 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1727 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1729 Bug fixes for sender identities
1731 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1732 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1733 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1735 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1737 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1738 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1739 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1740 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1742 Reply pushes mark before signature
1744 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1745 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1746 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1748 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1750 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1751 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1757 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1758 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1760 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1761 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1762 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1763 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1765 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1766 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1767 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1768 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1769 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1771 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1773 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1774 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1776 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1777 =========================
1779 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1780 ---------------------------------------
1782 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1783 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1784 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1785 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1786 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1787 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1788 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1792 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1793 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1795 Command-Line Interface
1796 ----------------------
1798 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1800 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1801 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1802 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1803 print for each message.
1805 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1806 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1807 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1808 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1810 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1812 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1813 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1814 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1816 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1818 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1819 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1820 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1821 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1823 `notmuch compact` command
1825 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1826 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1827 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1828 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1829 move the compacted database into place.
1834 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1836 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1837 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1838 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1839 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1840 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1841 and multiple threads.
1843 Using `notmuch-tree`
1845 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1847 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1848 search, show and tree mode itself)
1850 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1853 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1854 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1856 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1858 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1859 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1860 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1861 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1862 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1863 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1864 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1866 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1868 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1869 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1870 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1871 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1872 thread when the search was performed.
1874 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1876 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1877 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1878 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1880 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1882 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1883 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1886 Built-in help improvements
1888 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1889 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1890 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1892 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1894 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1895 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1896 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1898 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1900 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1901 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1903 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1905 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1906 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1907 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1908 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1910 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1912 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1913 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1914 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1915 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1917 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1919 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1920 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1921 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1923 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1925 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1926 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1927 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1929 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1931 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1932 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1933 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1934 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1935 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1937 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1939 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1940 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1941 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1942 the body part of the message.
1947 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1948 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1949 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1951 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1952 =========================
1954 Command-Line Interface
1955 ----------------------
1957 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1959 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1960 folder and notmuch index.
1962 `notmuch count --batch` option
1964 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1965 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1967 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1969 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1970 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1971 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1974 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1976 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1977 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1978 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1979 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1980 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1983 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1985 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1986 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1988 Top level option to specify configuration file
1990 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1991 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1993 Bash command-line completion
1995 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1996 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1997 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1998 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1999 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2000 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2001 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2002 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2003 bash-completion package.
2005 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2010 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2012 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2013 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2014 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2015 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2016 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2017 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2018 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2019 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2021 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2023 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2024 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2025 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2027 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2029 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2030 previous thread in the search results.
2032 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2034 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2035 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2037 Faster search and show
2039 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2040 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2041 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2042 threads should show faster.
2046 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2047 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2048 in question was now removed from this release.
2053 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2054 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2059 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2061 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2062 ===========================
2067 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2069 Internal test framework changes
2070 -------------------------------
2072 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2073 being unimplemented.
2075 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2076 ===========================
2078 Internal test framework changes
2079 -------------------------------
2081 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2082 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2084 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2085 =========================
2090 Date range search support
2092 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2093 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2094 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2095 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2096 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2099 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2101 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2102 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2103 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2104 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2105 but may be removed in a future release.
2107 Command-Line Interface
2108 ----------------------
2110 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2112 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2113 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2115 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2117 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2118 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2119 officially deprecated.
2121 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2123 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2124 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2125 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2127 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2129 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2130 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2133 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2134 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2135 dump/restore format.
2137 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2139 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2140 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2141 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2143 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2145 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2146 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2147 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2149 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2151 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2152 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2153 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2154 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2159 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2161 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2162 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2163 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2164 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2166 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2168 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2169 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2170 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2171 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2172 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2173 the behavior of this, see
2174 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2175 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2177 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2178 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2179 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2181 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2183 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2184 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2187 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2189 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2190 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2191 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2192 simply displayed in place of the message.
2194 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2196 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2197 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2199 Improved text/calendar content handling
2201 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2202 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2203 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2204 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2206 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2208 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2209 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2210 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2211 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2213 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2215 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2216 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2217 for HTML email containing images.
2219 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2221 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2223 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2225 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2228 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2230 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2231 the point where it was.
2233 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2235 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2236 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2237 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2238 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2239 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2241 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2243 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2244 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2245 thread instead of the message id.
2247 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2248 -----------------------------
2250 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2251 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2252 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2253 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2254 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2255 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2256 further details and installation.
2261 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2263 Internal test framework changes
2264 -------------------------------
2266 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2268 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2269 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2270 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2271 can result in buggy behavior.
2273 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2274 =========================
2279 Maildir tag synchronization
2281 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2282 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2283 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2284 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2285 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2286 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2289 Command-Line Interface
2290 ----------------------
2292 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2293 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2294 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2295 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2296 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2302 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2304 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2306 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2307 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2308 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2310 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2312 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2313 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2314 span multiple lines.
2316 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2318 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2319 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2320 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2321 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2322 inside the result or message.
2324 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2326 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2327 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2329 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2330 user-specified formatting
2332 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2333 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2334 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2335 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2336 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2338 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2339 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2341 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2342 ===========================
2347 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2348 compilation error for this contrib package.
2350 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2351 ===========================
2356 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2358 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2359 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2360 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2361 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2363 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2364 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2367 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2368 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2369 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2370 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2373 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2375 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2378 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2379 =========================
2381 Command-Line Interface
2382 ----------------------
2386 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2387 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2388 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2389 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2391 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2392 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2393 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2394 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2398 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2399 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2401 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2402 tag in your query, for example:
2404 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2406 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2407 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2409 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2410 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2412 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2414 Raw show format changes
2416 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2417 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2418 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2419 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2420 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2421 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2422 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2423 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2425 Listing configuration items
2427 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2433 Changes to tagging interface
2435 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2436 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2437 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2438 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2439 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2440 for more information.
2442 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2443 may need to update in custom configurations.
2445 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2447 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2448 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2449 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2450 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2453 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2454 -----------------------------
2456 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2457 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2458 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2459 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2460 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2461 contrib/ from now on.
2466 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2467 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2469 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2470 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2472 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2473 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2474 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2476 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2477 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2479 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2480 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2481 returning the new database object or directory object.
2488 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2489 compatible with go 1.
2491 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2492 =========================
2494 Command-Line Interface
2495 ----------------------
2499 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2500 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2501 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2502 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2504 Mail store folder/file ignore
2506 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2507 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2508 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2510 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2511 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2513 Unified help and manual pages
2515 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2516 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2519 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2521 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2522 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2530 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2531 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2532 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2533 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2535 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2537 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2538 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2540 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2543 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2544 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2545 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2547 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2549 should be changed to:
2551 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2553 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2555 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2556 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2558 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2560 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2561 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2562 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2563 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2564 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2565 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2569 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2570 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2571 of Mailing List Archives.
2573 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2575 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2576 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2579 Show view archiving key binding changes
2581 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2582 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2583 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2584 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2585 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2588 Support text/calendar MIME type
2590 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2593 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2595 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2596 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2597 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2598 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2600 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2602 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2603 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2604 messages blue by default in the search view.
2608 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2609 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2616 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2619 Python bindings changes
2620 -----------------------
2622 Python 3.2 compatibility
2624 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2626 Added missing unicode conversions
2628 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2629 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2630 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2635 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2637 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2638 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2639 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2640 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2641 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2643 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2644 ===========================
2649 Fix error handling in python bindings
2651 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2652 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2653 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2654 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2656 Quote MML tags in replies
2658 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2659 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2660 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2661 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2662 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2663 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2664 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2665 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2667 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2668 =========================
2670 Command-Line Interface
2671 ----------------------
2675 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2676 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2677 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2678 importing new messages into the database.
2680 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2682 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2683 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2684 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2689 Automatic tag query optimization
2691 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2692 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2693 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2695 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2697 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2698 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2699 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2704 Reduction of memory leaks
2706 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2707 and fixed in this release.
2714 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2715 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2716 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2719 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2721 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2722 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2723 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2726 Improvements in saved search management
2728 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2729 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2730 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2732 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2734 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2735 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2736 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2738 New face for crypto parts headers
2740 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2741 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2742 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2745 Use space as default thousands separator
2747 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2748 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2749 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2751 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2752 buttonized id: links
2754 New function notmuch-show-advance
2756 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2757 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2758 be bound to SPC with:
2760 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2762 Various performance improvements
2767 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2768 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2771 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2772 ===========================
2777 Fix crash in python bindings
2779 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2780 for some, but not all users.
2782 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2783 ===========================
2788 Fix `--help` argument
2790 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2791 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2792 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2794 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2795 =========================
2797 New build and testing features
2798 ------------------------------
2800 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2801 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2802 prerequisites is improved.
2804 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2806 New command-line features
2807 -------------------------
2809 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2811 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2812 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2815 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2817 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2818 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2819 favour of using stdout.
2821 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2823 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2824 limit the number of results shown.
2826 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2828 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2829 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2832 New emacs UI features
2833 ---------------------
2835 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2837 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2838 starting with "tag:".
2840 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2842 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2843 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2845 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2847 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2849 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2851 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2852 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2857 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2859 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2861 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2862 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2863 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2864 requires a database rebuild:
2866 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2867 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2869 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2871 New collection of add-on tools
2872 ------------------------------
2874 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2875 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2876 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2879 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2881 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2882 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2883 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2885 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2886 ========================
2888 New, general features
2889 ---------------------
2891 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2893 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2894 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2895 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2896 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2897 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2904 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2905 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2907 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2911 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2912 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2913 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2916 Python bindings changes
2917 -----------------------
2919 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2921 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2922 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2923 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2924 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2925 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2926 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2928 Ruby bindings changes
2929 ---------------------
2931 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2932 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2933 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2934 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2939 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2941 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2942 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2944 Reply formatting cleanup
2945 ------------------------
2947 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2948 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2950 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2951 ========================
2953 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2955 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2956 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2957 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2958 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2961 Improved Build system portability
2963 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2964 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2965 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2967 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2969 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2971 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2973 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2974 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2975 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2977 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2978 ========================
2980 Vim interface improvements
2981 --------------------------
2983 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2985 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2986 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2987 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2988 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2989 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2991 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2993 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2994 * fix compose temp file name
2996 Python Bindings changes
2997 -----------------------
2999 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3001 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3002 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3004 Build-System improvements
3005 -------------------------
3007 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3009 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3012 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3013 ==========================
3018 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3020 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3021 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3023 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3024 =======================
3026 New, general features
3027 ---------------------
3029 Folder-based searching
3031 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3032 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3033 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3037 For example, one might use things such as:
3043 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3044 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3046 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3047 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3048 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3049 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3051 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3052 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3053 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3056 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3057 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3059 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3061 Support for PGP/MIME
3063 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3064 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3065 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3067 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3069 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3070 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3072 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3073 notmuch will receive these tags.
3075 New command-line features
3076 -------------------------
3078 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3080 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3081 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3083 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3085 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3086 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3087 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3089 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3091 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3092 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3093 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3094 which parts a signature part applies).
3096 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3098 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3099 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3100 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3101 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3102 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3105 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3107 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3108 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3109 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3110 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3111 by translating it internally to the new call.
3113 Performance improvements
3114 ------------------------
3116 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3118 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3119 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3120 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3122 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3123 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3125 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3127 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3128 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3129 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3131 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3132 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3133 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3134 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3136 Faster initial indexing
3138 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3139 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3140 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3142 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3144 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3145 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3146 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3147 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3149 New emacs-interface features
3150 ----------------------------
3152 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3154 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3155 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3156 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3157 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3158 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3159 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3161 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3163 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3164 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3165 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3166 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3168 User-selectable From address
3170 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3171 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3172 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3173 will prompt for the from address to use.
3175 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3176 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3177 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3179 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3180 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3181 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3184 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3186 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3187 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3189 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3191 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3193 ----- Original Message -----
3195 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3196 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3197 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3198 citations work much like conventional citations.
3200 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3202 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3203 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3204 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3205 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3206 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3208 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3209 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3211 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3213 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3214 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3215 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3217 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3219 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3220 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3221 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3222 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3223 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3225 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3227 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3230 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3232 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3234 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3236 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3239 Vim interface improvements
3240 --------------------------
3242 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3244 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3245 * Implementing archive in show view
3246 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3247 * Add delete commands
3250 Bindings improvements
3251 ---------------------
3253 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3255 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3256 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3258 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3260 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3264 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3265 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3266 `list(Messages)` works now
3267 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3269 These allow, for example:
3271 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3273 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3275 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3281 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3283 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3286 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3288 New build-system features
3289 -------------------------
3291 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3293 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3294 the configure script from some other directory:
3301 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3303 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3304 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3305 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3306 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3307 manual invocation of configure.
3309 New test-suite feature
3310 ----------------------
3312 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3314 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3315 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3316 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3317 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3318 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3321 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3323 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3324 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3325 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3326 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3327 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3328 are updated to take advantage of this.
3330 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3332 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3333 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3334 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3335 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3341 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3343 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3344 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3345 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3347 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3349 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3351 to:user@elsewhere.com
3353 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3355 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3357 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3359 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3360 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3361 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3364 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3365 from the Received headers in some cases
3367 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3368 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3370 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3372 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3374 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3376 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3377 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3378 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3380 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3381 -------------------------
3383 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3385 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3386 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3387 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3389 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3391 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3392 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3393 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3396 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3398 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3399 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3400 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3401 fixed to avoid this bug.
3403 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3405 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3406 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3408 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3409 ========================
3411 New, general features
3412 ---------------------
3414 Maildir-flag synchronization
3416 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3417 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3426 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3428 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3429 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3430 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3431 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3433 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3434 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3435 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3436 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3439 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3441 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3442 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3443 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3445 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3446 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3448 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3449 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3451 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3452 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3453 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3455 New library features
3456 --------------------
3458 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3460 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3461 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3462 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3463 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3465 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3466 message with the new function:
3468 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3470 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3471 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3472 over all available filenames for a given message.
3474 New command-line features
3475 -------------------------
3477 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3479 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3480 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3481 access to the mail store itself.
3483 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3484 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3485 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3486 name of a script containing:
3488 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3490 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3491 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3497 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3499 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3501 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3503 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3504 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3505 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3506 now produces nothing).
3508 Emacs interface improvements
3509 ----------------------------
3511 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3513 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3515 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3517 Display current thread subject in a header line
3519 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3521 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3523 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3524 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3525 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3526 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3527 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3528 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3529 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3531 Vim interface improvements
3532 --------------------------
3534 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3536 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3537 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3543 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3545 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3546 ========================
3548 New command-line features
3549 -------------------------
3551 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3553 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3554 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3555 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3557 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3558 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3559 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3560 scripts. For example:
3562 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3563 <operations-on> "$file"
3566 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3568 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3569 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3570 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3571 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3572 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3573 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3575 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3577 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3578 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3579 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3580 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3582 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3584 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3585 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3586 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3587 default rather than Bcc.
3589 New library features
3590 --------------------
3592 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3594 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3595 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3600 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3602 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3603 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3604 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3605 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3606 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3607 notmuch customize interface.
3609 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3611 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3612 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3613 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3614 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3616 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3618 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3619 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3620 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3621 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3623 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3625 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3626 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3627 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3628 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3629 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3630 notmuch customize interface.
3632 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3634 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3635 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3636 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3637 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3638 notmuch customize interface.
3640 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3642 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3643 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3644 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3645 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3648 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3650 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3651 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3652 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3655 New build-system features
3656 -------------------------
3658 Various portability fixes have been applied
3660 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3661 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3662 more portable than ever before.
3664 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3666 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3667 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3668 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3670 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3671 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3672 automatically run ldconfig.
3674 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3675 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3676 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3678 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3679 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3680 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3681 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3683 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3685 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3686 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3687 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3688 used in the resulting Makefile.
3690 New test-suite features
3691 -----------------------
3693 New modularization of test suite
3695 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3696 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3697 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3698 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3699 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3700 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3701 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3702 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3704 New testing of emacs interface
3706 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3707 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3708 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3709 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3710 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3711 database via the FCC setting.
3716 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3718 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3719 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3720 persistent error of the form:
3722 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3724 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3725 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3727 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3729 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3730 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3731 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3733 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3735 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3736 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3737 parsing the notmuch results).
3739 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3741 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3744 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3745 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3746 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3751 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3753 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3754 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3755 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3756 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3757 the emacs interface.
3759 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3761 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3762 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3763 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3765 Python-binding fixes
3766 --------------------
3768 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3770 Debian-specific fixes
3771 ---------------------
3773 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3775 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3776 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3777 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3780 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3781 ==========================
3786 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3788 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3789 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3790 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3791 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3793 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3795 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3796 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3797 want notmuch to crash.
3802 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3804 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3805 directory does not exist
3810 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3812 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3813 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3815 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3816 ========================
3818 New command-line features
3819 -------------------------
3821 User-configurable tags for new messages
3823 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3824 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3825 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3826 to specify this value.
3828 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3830 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3831 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3832 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3834 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3836 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3837 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3839 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3841 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3842 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3843 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3844 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3845 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3848 Indication of author names that match a search
3850 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3851 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3852 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3853 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3854 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3855 messages in the thread are listed first.
3857 New: Python bindings
3858 --------------------
3860 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3861 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3862 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3863 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3865 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3866 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3867 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3870 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3871 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3872 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3874 Emacs interface improvements
3875 ----------------------------
3877 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3879 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3880 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3881 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3882 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3883 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3884 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3885 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3886 but without any of the disadvantages).
3888 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3889 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3890 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3893 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3894 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3895 instead running something like:
3897 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3899 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3900 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3901 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3904 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3906 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3907 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3908 tweaked by the user.
3910 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3911 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3912 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3915 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3916 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3917 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3920 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3922 This support currently relies on an external program,
3923 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3924 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3925 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3926 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3927 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3930 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3931 notmuch) is available via:
3933 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3935 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3936 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3937 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3939 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3941 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3942 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3943 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3944 making this automatic in a future release.
3946 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3948 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3949 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3950 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3951 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3952 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3953 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3956 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3958 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3959 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3960 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3962 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3964 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3965 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3966 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3968 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3969 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3970 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3971 other representation.
3973 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3974 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3977 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3979 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3980 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3981 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3983 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3984 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3985 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3987 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3989 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3990 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3991 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3992 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3993 to display the search result.
3995 More flexible handling of header visibility
3997 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3998 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3999 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4000 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4001 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4002 with the 'h' keybinding.
4004 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4005 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4006 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4008 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4010 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4012 Customizable formatting of search results
4014 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4015 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4016 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4018 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4020 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4022 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4027 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4029 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4030 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4031 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4032 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4038 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4040 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4041 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4043 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4045 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4046 accept are now all accepted.
4051 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4053 Better display of output from failed tests
4055 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4056 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4058 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4059 ========================
4061 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4062 detailed release notes this time!
4064 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4065 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4067 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4068 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4069 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4070 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4077 Better guessing of From: header
4079 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4080 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4081 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4082 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4083 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4086 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4088 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4089 guaranteed to match all messages.
4091 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4093 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4094 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4095 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4096 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4097 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4100 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4103 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4104 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4105 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4106 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4111 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4113 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4114 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4115 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4116 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4118 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4120 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4122 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4123 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4124 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4126 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4128 Previously, the user might see:
4130 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4134 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4136 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4137 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4138 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4139 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4141 Emacs client features
4142 ---------------------
4144 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4146 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4147 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4148 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4149 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4150 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4152 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4155 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4156 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4157 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4158 search with the '*' binding.
4160 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4162 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4163 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4166 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4168 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4169 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4170 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4172 Build-system features
4173 ---------------------
4175 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4177 Add support to configure for many standard options
4179 We include actual support for:
4181 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4183 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4185 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4186 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4188 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4189 separate "make install-emacs"
4191 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4193 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4194 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4195 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4197 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4200 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4201 ========================
4203 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4205 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4206 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4208 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4209 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4210 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4211 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4212 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4213 tags from messages in a thread.
4220 indent-tabs-mode: nil