1 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
2 ===========================
7 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`.
9 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
10 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
11 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
13 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
15 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
16 related abort in `notmuch show`.
18 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
19 ===========================
24 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
25 better late than never.
28 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
29 =========================
31 Command Line Interface
32 ----------------------
34 Support for re-indexing existing messages
36 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
37 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
38 change the way specific messages are indexed.
40 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
41 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
42 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
44 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
46 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
48 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
50 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
51 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
52 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
53 the setting of `new.tags`.
55 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
57 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
59 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
61 This inserts into the top level folder.
63 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
65 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
67 New option --output=address for notmuch address
69 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
71 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
73 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
74 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
75 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
77 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
82 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
84 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
85 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
86 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
87 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
88 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
89 config set index.decrypt true".
91 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
92 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
93 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
94 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
95 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
96 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
97 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
98 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
100 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
101 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
102 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
103 this feature without considering the security of your index.
108 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
110 Use make-process when available
112 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
113 notmuch command without using temporary files.
118 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
120 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
121 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
122 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
123 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
125 New functions to count files
127 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
128 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
130 New function to remove properties
132 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
133 drop all properties with a common pattern:
134 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
136 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
138 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
139 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
140 possibility of NULL was not documented.
142 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
144 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
145 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
146 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
147 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
148 operator may decide to change from message to message.
155 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
156 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
157 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
163 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
165 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
166 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
168 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
170 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
172 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
174 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
179 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
180 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
182 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
183 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
184 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
185 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
186 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
187 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
192 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
194 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
195 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
196 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
197 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
199 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
200 ===========================
205 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
206 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
209 Command Line Interface
210 ----------------------
212 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
213 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
216 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
217 ===========================
219 Command Line Interface
220 ----------------------
222 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
223 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
228 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
231 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
232 ===========================
237 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
240 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
241 =========================
246 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
248 Skip HTML tags when indexing
250 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
252 Command Line Interface
253 ----------------------
255 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
257 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
262 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
264 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
265 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
268 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
273 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
275 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
276 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
278 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
280 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
281 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
284 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
286 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
288 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
290 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
291 ===========================
293 Command Line Interface
294 ----------------------
296 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
301 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
303 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
304 ===========================
309 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
311 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
312 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
315 Command Line Interface
316 ----------------------
318 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
320 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
322 Fix bug in dump header
324 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
325 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
326 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
331 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
333 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
334 =========================
339 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
341 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
344 Command Line Interface
345 ----------------------
347 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
349 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
350 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
351 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
353 New default output format to 3
355 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
356 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
357 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
358 default format changes.
363 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
365 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
366 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
367 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
368 or tree view to resume.
370 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
371 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
372 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
375 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
376 they were when you postponed in the final message.
380 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
381 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
382 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
383 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
384 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
388 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
389 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
390 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
391 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
392 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
393 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
397 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
398 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
400 Stop display of `application/*` parts
402 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
403 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
404 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
405 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
406 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
407 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
408 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
409 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
412 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
414 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
415 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
416 only tagged the current thread.)
418 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
420 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
421 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
422 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
424 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
426 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
427 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
428 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
429 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
430 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
431 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
432 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
434 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
436 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
437 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
438 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
443 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
445 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
448 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
450 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
453 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
454 ===========================
459 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
461 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
462 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
463 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
466 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
467 ===========================
469 Command Line Interface
470 ----------------------
472 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
477 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
479 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
480 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
481 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
483 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
484 ===========================
489 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
490 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
492 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
493 ===========================
495 Command Line Interface
496 ----------------------
498 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
500 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
501 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
502 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
507 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
509 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
510 ===========================
512 Command Line Interface
513 ----------------------
515 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
520 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
522 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
523 ===========================
528 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
530 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
531 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
532 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
534 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
536 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
538 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
539 ===========================
544 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
546 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
551 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
553 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
554 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
555 the original colours.
557 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
558 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
560 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
562 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
563 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
564 bug, and hence the test.
566 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
567 =========================
569 General (Xapian 1.4+)
570 ---------------------
572 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
574 Support for single argument date: queries
576 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
578 Support for blocking opens
580 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
581 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
583 Support for named queries
585 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
586 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
587 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
594 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
595 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
596 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
597 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
599 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
601 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
606 Support for compile time options
608 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
609 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
612 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
614 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
615 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
616 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
617 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
618 scripts to ignore it.
623 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
625 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
626 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
627 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
629 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
630 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
631 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
632 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
633 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
634 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
635 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
637 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
638 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
641 Make internal address completion customizable
643 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
644 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
645 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
646 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
649 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
651 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
652 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
653 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
654 completion for the current buffer.
656 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
657 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
658 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
662 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
663 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
664 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
665 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
666 will be added instead.
668 Face customization is easier
670 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
671 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
672 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
673 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
675 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
680 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
685 Go bindings moved to contrib
687 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
689 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
691 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
692 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
694 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
696 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
697 ===========================
704 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
705 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
707 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
709 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
711 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
712 ===========================
717 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
719 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
724 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
729 Use `env` to locate perl.
734 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
736 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
738 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
740 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
742 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
743 =========================
750 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
751 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
753 Limited support for S/MIME messages
755 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
756 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
757 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
762 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
763 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
764 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
766 Command Line Interface
767 ----------------------
769 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
771 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
776 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
781 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
783 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
784 parts are now included in replies.
786 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
787 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
788 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
789 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
791 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
793 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
795 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
797 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
798 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
799 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
800 forwards only the current message.
802 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
804 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
805 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
806 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
807 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
808 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
809 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
810 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
811 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
814 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
815 longer generate empty buffers
817 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
818 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
819 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
820 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
821 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
823 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
825 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
828 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
830 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
833 Address completion improvements
835 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
836 you previously configured one, customize the variable
837 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
838 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
839 interactive address completion.
841 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
843 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
844 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
845 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
850 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
851 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
852 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
858 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
859 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
860 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
861 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
862 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
863 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
865 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
866 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
867 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
868 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
869 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
870 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
872 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
873 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
875 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
876 =========================
881 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
884 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
886 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
887 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
888 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
890 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
891 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
893 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
894 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
895 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
897 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
899 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
900 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
901 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
902 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
903 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
904 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
909 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
910 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
913 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
916 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
918 Command Line Interface
919 ----------------------
921 Database revision tracking
923 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
924 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
925 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
926 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
928 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
930 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
931 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
932 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
933 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
934 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
935 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
936 manual page for further information.
941 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
943 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
944 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
946 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
948 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
949 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
950 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
952 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
954 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
956 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
957 customization as well.
959 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
961 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
963 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
965 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
967 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
968 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
969 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
970 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
972 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
974 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
975 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
976 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
977 this variable to 10000.
982 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
983 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
985 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
987 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
988 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
989 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
990 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
991 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
992 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
993 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
994 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
995 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
998 Database revision tracking
1000 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1001 query parser and the new function
1002 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1004 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1006 Deprecated functions
1008 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1009 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1010 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1011 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1016 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1018 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1019 ===========================
1024 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1026 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1027 ===========================
1032 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1034 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1035 =========================
1037 Command-Line Interface
1038 ----------------------
1040 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1042 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1043 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1044 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1046 Path to gpg is now configurable
1048 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1049 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1054 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1056 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1061 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1066 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1071 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1073 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1074 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1076 New error logging facility
1078 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1079 output formerly printed to stderr.
1081 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1083 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1085 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1087 Fix for rounding of seconds
1092 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1094 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1095 documentation has been removed.
1097 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1099 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1100 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1105 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1106 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1107 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1112 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1113 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1114 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1115 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1116 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1117 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1120 git checkout config origin/config
1122 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1124 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1125 =========================
1130 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1131 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1132 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1133 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1134 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1135 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1136 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1138 Command-Line Interface
1139 ----------------------
1141 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1143 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1144 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1145 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1146 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1147 script callers should still check the return value.
1149 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1151 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1152 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1153 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1154 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1155 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1156 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1157 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1159 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1161 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1162 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1163 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1165 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1167 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1168 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1169 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1170 currently unmaintained.
1172 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1174 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1175 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1176 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1177 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1179 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1181 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1182 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1183 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1184 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1185 count of duplicate addresses.
1190 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1192 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1193 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1194 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1197 Improved handling of the unread tag
1199 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1200 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1201 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1202 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1203 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1204 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1205 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1207 Expanded default saved search settings
1209 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1210 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1212 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1214 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1215 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1216 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1218 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1220 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1221 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1222 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1223 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1224 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1225 the variable for details.
1230 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1232 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1233 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1234 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1235 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1237 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1239 Previously, library users were required to call
1240 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1241 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1242 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1243 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1244 too out of date for that API.
1246 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1248 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1249 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1250 atomic section will be aborted.
1252 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1253 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1255 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1257 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1258 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1259 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1260 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1261 messages into the same thread.
1266 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1267 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1268 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1269 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1270 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1271 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1276 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1277 from the config file. Use something like:
1281 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1282 "footer": "</body></html>",
1291 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1296 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1297 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1298 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1300 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1301 ===========================
1306 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1308 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1310 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1312 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1313 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1315 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1317 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1320 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1321 ===========================
1323 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1328 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1330 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1332 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1334 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1336 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1342 Use --quick when starting emacs
1344 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1346 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1348 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1350 Command-Line Interface
1351 ----------------------
1353 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1354 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1359 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1361 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1362 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1364 Fix for phrase indexing
1366 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1367 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1368 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1373 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1375 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1376 unintentionally removed.
1378 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1379 =========================
1384 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1385 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1386 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1387 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1388 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1389 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1390 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1391 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1392 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1398 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1400 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1401 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1402 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1403 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1404 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1405 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1406 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1407 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1409 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1411 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1412 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1413 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1414 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1417 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1419 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1420 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1421 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1422 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1423 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1424 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1425 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1430 Notmuch database upgrade
1432 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1433 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1434 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1435 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1436 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1437 released version of Notmuch before now.
1439 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1441 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1442 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1443 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1444 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1446 Message header parsing changes
1448 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1449 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1450 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1451 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1452 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1453 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1455 Command-Line Interface
1456 ----------------------
1458 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1460 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1462 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1464 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1466 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1468 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1469 user does not want it.
1471 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1473 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1474 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1475 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1476 support formatted output.
1478 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1480 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1481 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1482 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1490 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1491 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1492 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1493 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1494 `~/.emacs` with these.
1496 Changed format for saved searches
1498 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1499 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1500 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1501 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1504 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1505 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1506 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1507 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1509 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1510 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1511 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1513 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1514 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1515 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1516 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1517 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1519 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1521 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1522 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1523 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1525 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1527 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1528 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1529 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1530 message had been unread).
1532 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1533 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1534 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1535 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1537 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1538 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1539 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1541 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1542 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1543 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1544 to tags already present.
1548 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1549 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1550 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1551 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1552 these differ from each other.
1553 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1555 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1557 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1558 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1559 for these Emacs versions.
1561 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1563 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1564 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1566 Bug fixes for sender identities
1568 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1569 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1570 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1572 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1574 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1575 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1576 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1577 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1579 Reply pushes mark before signature
1581 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1582 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1583 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1585 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1587 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1588 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1594 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1595 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1597 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1598 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1599 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1600 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1602 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1603 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1604 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1605 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1606 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1608 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1610 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1611 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1613 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1614 =========================
1616 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1617 ---------------------------------------
1619 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1620 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1621 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1622 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1623 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1624 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1625 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1629 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1630 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1632 Command-Line Interface
1633 ----------------------
1635 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1637 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1638 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1639 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1640 print for each message.
1642 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1643 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1644 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1645 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1647 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1649 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1650 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1651 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1653 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1655 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1656 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1657 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1658 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1660 `notmuch compact` command
1662 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1663 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1664 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1665 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1666 move the compacted database into place.
1671 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1673 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1674 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1675 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1676 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1677 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1678 and multiple threads.
1680 Using `notmuch-tree`
1682 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1684 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1685 search, show and tree mode itself)
1687 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1690 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1691 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1693 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1695 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1696 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1697 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1698 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1699 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1700 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1701 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1703 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1705 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1706 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1707 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1708 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1709 thread when the search was performed.
1711 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1713 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1714 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1715 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1717 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1719 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1720 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1723 Built-in help improvements
1725 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1726 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1727 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1729 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1731 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1732 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1733 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1735 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1737 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1738 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1740 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1742 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1743 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1744 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1745 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1747 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1749 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1750 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1751 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1752 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1754 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1756 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1757 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1758 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1760 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1762 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1763 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1764 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1766 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1768 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1769 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1770 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1771 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1772 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1774 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1776 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1777 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1778 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1779 the body part of the message.
1784 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1785 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1786 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1788 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1789 =========================
1791 Command-Line Interface
1792 ----------------------
1794 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1796 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1797 folder and notmuch index.
1799 `notmuch count --batch` option
1801 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1802 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1804 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1806 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1807 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1808 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1811 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1813 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1814 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1815 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1816 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1817 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1820 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1822 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1823 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1825 Top level option to specify configuration file
1827 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1828 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1830 Bash command-line completion
1832 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1833 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1834 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1835 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1836 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1837 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1838 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1839 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1840 bash-completion package.
1842 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1847 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1849 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1850 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1851 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1852 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1853 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1854 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1855 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1856 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1858 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1860 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1861 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1862 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1864 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1866 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1867 previous thread in the search results.
1869 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1871 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1872 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1874 Faster search and show
1876 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1877 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1878 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1879 threads should show faster.
1883 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1884 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1885 in question was now removed from this release.
1890 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1891 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1896 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1898 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1899 ===========================
1904 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1906 Internal test framework changes
1907 -------------------------------
1909 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1910 being unimplemented.
1912 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1913 ===========================
1915 Internal test framework changes
1916 -------------------------------
1918 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1919 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1921 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1922 =========================
1927 Date range search support
1929 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1930 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1931 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1932 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1933 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1936 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1938 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1939 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1940 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1941 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1942 but may be removed in a future release.
1944 Command-Line Interface
1945 ----------------------
1947 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1949 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1950 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1952 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1954 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1955 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1956 officially deprecated.
1958 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1960 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1961 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1962 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1964 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1966 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1967 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1970 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1971 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1972 dump/restore format.
1974 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1976 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1977 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1978 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1980 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1982 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1983 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1984 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1986 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1988 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1989 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1990 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1991 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1996 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1998 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1999 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2000 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2001 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2003 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2005 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2006 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2007 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2008 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2009 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2010 the behavior of this, see
2011 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2012 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2014 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2015 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2016 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2018 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2020 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2021 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2024 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2026 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2027 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2028 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2029 simply displayed in place of the message.
2031 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2033 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2034 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2036 Improved text/calendar content handling
2038 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2039 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2040 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2041 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2043 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2045 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2046 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2047 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2048 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2050 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2052 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2053 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2054 for HTML email containing images.
2056 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2058 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2060 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2062 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2065 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2067 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2068 the point where it was.
2070 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2072 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2073 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2074 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2075 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2076 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2078 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2080 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2081 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2082 thread instead of the message id.
2084 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2085 -----------------------------
2087 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2088 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2089 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2090 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2091 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2092 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2093 further details and installation.
2098 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2100 Internal test framework changes
2101 -------------------------------
2103 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2105 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2106 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2107 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2108 can result in buggy behavior.
2110 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2111 =========================
2116 Maildir tag synchronization
2118 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2119 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2120 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2121 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2122 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2123 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2126 Command-Line Interface
2127 ----------------------
2129 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2130 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2131 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2132 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2133 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2139 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2141 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2143 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2144 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2145 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2147 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2149 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2150 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2151 span multiple lines.
2153 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2155 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2156 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2157 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2158 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2159 inside the result or message.
2161 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2163 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2164 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2166 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2167 user-specified formatting
2169 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2170 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2171 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2172 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2173 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2175 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2176 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2178 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2179 ===========================
2184 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2185 compilation error for this contrib package.
2187 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2188 ===========================
2193 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2195 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2196 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2197 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2198 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2200 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2201 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2204 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2205 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2206 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2207 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2210 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2212 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2215 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2216 =========================
2218 Command-Line Interface
2219 ----------------------
2223 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2224 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2225 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2226 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2228 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2229 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2230 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2231 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2235 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2236 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2238 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2239 tag in your query, for example:
2241 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2243 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2244 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2246 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2247 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2249 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2251 Raw show format changes
2253 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2254 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2255 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2256 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2257 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2258 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2259 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2260 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2262 Listing configuration items
2264 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2270 Changes to tagging interface
2272 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2273 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2274 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2275 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2276 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2277 for more information.
2279 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2280 may need to update in custom configurations.
2282 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2284 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2285 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2286 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2287 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2290 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2291 -----------------------------
2293 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2294 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2295 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2296 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2297 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2298 contrib/ from now on.
2303 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2304 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2306 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2307 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2309 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2310 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2311 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2313 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2314 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2316 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2317 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2318 returning the new database object or directory object.
2325 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2326 compatible with go 1.
2328 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2329 =========================
2331 Command-Line Interface
2332 ----------------------
2336 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2337 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2338 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2339 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2341 Mail store folder/file ignore
2343 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2344 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2345 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2347 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2348 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2350 Unified help and manual pages
2352 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2353 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2356 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2358 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2359 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2367 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2368 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2369 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2370 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2372 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2374 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2375 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2377 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2380 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2381 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2382 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2384 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2386 should be changed to:
2388 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2390 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2392 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2393 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2395 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2397 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2398 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2399 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2400 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2401 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2402 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2406 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2407 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2408 of Mailing List Archives.
2410 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2412 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2413 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2416 Show view archiving key binding changes
2418 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2419 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2420 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2421 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2422 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2425 Support text/calendar MIME type
2427 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2430 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2432 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2433 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2434 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2435 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2437 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2439 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2440 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2441 messages blue by default in the search view.
2445 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2446 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2453 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2456 Python bindings changes
2457 -----------------------
2459 Python 3.2 compatibility
2461 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2463 Added missing unicode conversions
2465 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2466 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2467 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2472 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2474 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2475 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2476 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2477 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2478 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2480 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2481 ===========================
2486 Fix error handling in python bindings
2488 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2489 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2490 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2491 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2493 Quote MML tags in replies
2495 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2496 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2497 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2498 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2499 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2500 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2501 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2502 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2504 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2505 =========================
2507 Command-Line Interface
2508 ----------------------
2512 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2513 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2514 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2515 importing new messages into the database.
2517 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2519 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2520 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2521 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2526 Automatic tag query optimization
2528 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2529 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2530 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2532 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2534 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2535 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2536 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2541 Reduction of memory leaks
2543 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2544 and fixed in this release.
2551 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2552 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2553 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2556 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2558 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2559 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2560 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2563 Improvements in saved search management
2565 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2566 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2567 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2569 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2571 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2572 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2573 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2575 New face for crypto parts headers
2577 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2578 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2579 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2582 Use space as default thousands separator
2584 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2585 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2586 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2588 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2589 buttonized id: links
2591 New function notmuch-show-advance
2593 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2594 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2595 be bound to SPC with:
2597 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2599 Various performance improvements
2604 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2605 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2608 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2609 ===========================
2614 Fix crash in python bindings
2616 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2617 for some, but not all users.
2619 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2620 ===========================
2625 Fix `--help` argument
2627 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2628 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2629 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2631 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2632 =========================
2634 New build and testing features
2635 ------------------------------
2637 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2638 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2639 prerequisites is improved.
2641 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2643 New command-line features
2644 -------------------------
2646 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2648 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2649 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2652 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2654 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2655 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2656 favour of using stdout.
2658 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2660 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2661 limit the number of results shown.
2663 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2665 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2666 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2669 New emacs UI features
2670 ---------------------
2672 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2674 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2675 starting with "tag:".
2677 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2679 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2680 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2682 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2684 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2686 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2688 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2689 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2694 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2696 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2698 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2699 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2700 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2701 requires a database rebuild:
2703 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2704 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2706 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2708 New collection of add-on tools
2709 ------------------------------
2711 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2712 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2713 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2716 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2718 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2719 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2720 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2722 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2723 ========================
2725 New, general features
2726 ---------------------
2728 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2730 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2731 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2732 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2733 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2734 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2741 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2742 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2744 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2748 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2749 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2750 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2753 Python bindings changes
2754 -----------------------
2756 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2758 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2759 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2760 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2761 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2762 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2763 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2765 Ruby bindings changes
2766 ---------------------
2768 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2769 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2770 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2771 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2776 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2778 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2779 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2781 Reply formatting cleanup
2782 ------------------------
2784 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2785 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2787 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2788 ========================
2790 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2792 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2793 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2794 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2795 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2798 Improved Build system portability
2800 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2801 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2802 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2804 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2806 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2808 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2810 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2811 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2812 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2814 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2815 ========================
2817 Vim interface improvements
2818 --------------------------
2820 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2822 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2823 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2824 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2825 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2826 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2828 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2830 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2831 * fix compose temp file name
2833 Python Bindings changes
2834 -----------------------
2836 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2838 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2839 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2841 Build-System improvements
2842 -------------------------
2844 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2846 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2849 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2850 ==========================
2855 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2857 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2858 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2860 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2861 =======================
2863 New, general features
2864 ---------------------
2866 Folder-based searching
2868 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2869 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2870 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2874 For example, one might use things such as:
2880 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2881 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2883 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2884 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2885 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2886 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2888 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2889 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2890 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2893 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2894 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2896 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2898 Support for PGP/MIME
2900 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2901 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2902 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2904 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2906 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2907 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2909 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2910 notmuch will receive these tags.
2912 New command-line features
2913 -------------------------
2915 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2917 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2918 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2920 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2922 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2923 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2924 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2926 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2928 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2929 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2930 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2931 which parts a signature part applies).
2933 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2935 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2936 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2937 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2938 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2939 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2942 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2944 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2945 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2946 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2947 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2948 by translating it internally to the new call.
2950 Performance improvements
2951 ------------------------
2953 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2955 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2956 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2957 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2959 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2960 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2962 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2964 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2965 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2966 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2968 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2969 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2970 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2971 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2973 Faster initial indexing
2975 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2976 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2977 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2979 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2981 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2982 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2983 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2984 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2986 New emacs-interface features
2987 ----------------------------
2989 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2991 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2992 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2993 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2994 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2995 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2996 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2998 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3000 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3001 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3002 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3003 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3005 User-selectable From address
3007 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3008 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3009 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3010 will prompt for the from address to use.
3012 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3013 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3014 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3016 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3017 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3018 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3021 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3023 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3024 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3026 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3028 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3030 ----- Original Message -----
3032 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3033 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3034 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3035 citations work much like conventional citations.
3037 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3039 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3040 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3041 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3042 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3043 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3045 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3046 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3048 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3050 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3051 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3052 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3054 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3056 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3057 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3058 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3059 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3060 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3062 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3064 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3067 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3069 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3071 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3073 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3076 Vim interface improvements
3077 --------------------------
3079 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3081 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3082 * Implementing archive in show view
3083 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3084 * Add delete commands
3087 Bindings improvements
3088 ---------------------
3090 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3092 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3093 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3095 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3097 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3101 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3102 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3103 `list(Messages)` works now
3104 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3106 These allow, for example:
3108 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3110 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3112 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3118 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3120 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3123 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3125 New build-system features
3126 -------------------------
3128 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3130 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3131 the configure script from some other directory:
3138 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3140 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3141 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3142 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3143 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3144 manual invocation of configure.
3146 New test-suite feature
3147 ----------------------
3149 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3151 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3152 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3153 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3154 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3155 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3158 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3160 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3161 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3162 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3163 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3164 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3165 are updated to take advantage of this.
3167 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3169 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3170 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3171 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3172 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3178 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3180 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3181 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3182 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3184 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3186 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3188 to:user@elsewhere.com
3190 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3192 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3194 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3196 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3197 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3198 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3201 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3202 from the Received headers in some cases
3204 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3205 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3207 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3209 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3211 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3213 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3214 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3215 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3217 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3218 -------------------------
3220 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3222 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3223 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3224 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3226 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3228 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3229 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3230 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3233 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3235 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3236 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3237 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3238 fixed to avoid this bug.
3240 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3242 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3243 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3245 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3246 ========================
3248 New, general features
3249 ---------------------
3251 Maildir-flag synchronization
3253 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3254 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3263 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3265 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3266 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3267 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3268 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3270 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3271 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3272 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3273 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3276 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3278 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3279 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3280 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3282 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3283 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3285 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3286 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3288 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3289 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3290 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3292 New library features
3293 --------------------
3295 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3297 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3298 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3299 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3300 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3302 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3303 message with the new function:
3305 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3307 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3308 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3309 over all available filenames for a given message.
3311 New command-line features
3312 -------------------------
3314 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3316 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3317 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3318 access to the mail store itself.
3320 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3321 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3322 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3323 name of a script containing:
3325 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3327 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3328 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3334 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3336 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3338 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3340 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3341 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3342 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3343 now produces nothing).
3345 Emacs interface improvements
3346 ----------------------------
3348 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3350 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3352 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3354 Display current thread subject in a header line
3356 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3358 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3360 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3361 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3362 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3363 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3364 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3365 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3366 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3368 Vim interface improvements
3369 --------------------------
3371 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3373 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3374 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3380 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3382 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3383 ========================
3385 New command-line features
3386 -------------------------
3388 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3390 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3391 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3392 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3394 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3395 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3396 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3397 scripts. For example:
3399 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3400 <operations-on> "$file"
3403 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3405 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3406 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3407 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3408 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3409 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3410 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3412 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3414 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3415 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3416 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3417 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3419 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3421 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3422 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3423 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3424 default rather than Bcc.
3426 New library features
3427 --------------------
3429 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3431 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3432 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3437 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3439 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3440 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3441 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3442 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3443 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3444 notmuch customize interface.
3446 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3448 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3449 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3450 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3451 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3453 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3455 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3456 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3457 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3458 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3460 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3462 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3463 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3464 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3465 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3466 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3467 notmuch customize interface.
3469 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3471 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3472 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3473 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3474 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3475 notmuch customize interface.
3477 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3479 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3480 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3481 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3482 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3485 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3487 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3488 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3489 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3492 New build-system features
3493 -------------------------
3495 Various portability fixes have been applied
3497 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3498 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3499 more portable than ever before.
3501 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3503 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3504 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3505 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3507 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3508 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3509 automatically run ldconfig.
3511 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3512 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3513 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3515 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3516 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3517 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3518 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3520 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3522 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3523 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3524 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3525 used in the resulting Makefile.
3527 New test-suite features
3528 -----------------------
3530 New modularization of test suite
3532 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3533 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3534 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3535 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3536 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3537 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3538 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3539 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3541 New testing of emacs interface
3543 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3544 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3545 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3546 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3547 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3548 database via the FCC setting.
3553 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3555 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3556 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3557 persistent error of the form:
3559 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3561 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3562 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3564 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3566 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3567 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3568 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3570 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3572 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3573 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3574 parsing the notmuch results).
3576 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3578 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3581 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3582 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3583 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3588 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3590 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3591 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3592 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3593 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3594 the emacs interface.
3596 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3598 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3599 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3600 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3602 Python-binding fixes
3603 --------------------
3605 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3607 Debian-specific fixes
3608 ---------------------
3610 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3612 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3613 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3614 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3617 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3618 ==========================
3623 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3625 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3626 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3627 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3628 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3630 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3632 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3633 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3634 want notmuch to crash.
3639 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3641 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3642 directory does not exist
3647 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3649 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3650 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3652 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3653 ========================
3655 New command-line features
3656 -------------------------
3658 User-configurable tags for new messages
3660 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3661 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3662 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3663 to specify this value.
3665 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3667 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3668 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3669 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3671 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3673 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3674 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3676 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3678 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3679 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3680 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3681 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3682 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3685 Indication of author names that match a search
3687 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3688 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3689 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3690 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3691 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3692 messages in the thread are listed first.
3694 New: Python bindings
3695 --------------------
3697 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3698 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3699 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3700 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3702 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3703 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3704 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3707 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3708 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3709 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3711 Emacs interface improvements
3712 ----------------------------
3714 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3716 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3717 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3718 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3719 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3720 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3721 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3722 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3723 but without any of the disadvantages).
3725 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3726 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3727 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3730 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3731 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3732 instead running something like:
3734 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3736 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3737 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3738 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3741 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3743 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3744 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3745 tweaked by the user.
3747 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3748 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3749 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3752 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3753 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3754 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3757 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3759 This support currently relies on an external program,
3760 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3761 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3762 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3763 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3764 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3767 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3768 notmuch) is available via:
3770 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3772 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3773 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3774 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3776 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3778 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3779 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3780 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3781 making this automatic in a future release.
3783 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3785 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3786 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3787 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3788 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3789 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3790 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3793 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3795 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3796 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3797 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3799 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3801 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3802 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3803 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3805 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3806 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3807 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3808 other representation.
3810 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3811 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3814 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3816 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3817 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3818 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3820 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3821 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3822 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3824 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3826 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3827 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3828 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3829 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3830 to display the search result.
3832 More flexible handling of header visibility
3834 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3835 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3836 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3837 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3838 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3839 with the 'h' keybinding.
3841 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3842 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3843 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3845 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3847 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3849 Customizable formatting of search results
3851 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3852 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3853 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3855 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3857 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3859 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3864 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3866 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3867 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3868 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3869 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3875 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3877 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3878 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3880 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3882 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3883 accept are now all accepted.
3888 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3890 Better display of output from failed tests
3892 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3893 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3895 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3896 ========================
3898 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3899 detailed release notes this time!
3901 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3902 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3904 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3905 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3906 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3907 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3914 Better guessing of From: header
3916 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3917 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3918 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3919 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3920 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3923 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3925 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3926 guaranteed to match all messages.
3928 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3930 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3931 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3932 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3933 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3934 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3937 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3940 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3941 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3942 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3943 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3948 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3950 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3951 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3952 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3953 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3955 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3957 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3959 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3960 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3961 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3963 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3965 Previously, the user might see:
3967 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3971 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3973 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3974 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3975 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3976 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3978 Emacs client features
3979 ---------------------
3981 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3983 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3984 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3985 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3986 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3987 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3989 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3992 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3993 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3994 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3995 search with the '*' binding.
3997 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3999 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4000 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4003 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4005 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4006 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4007 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4009 Build-system features
4010 ---------------------
4012 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4014 Add support to configure for many standard options
4016 We include actual support for:
4018 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4020 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4022 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4023 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4025 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4026 separate "make install-emacs"
4028 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4030 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4031 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4032 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4034 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4037 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4038 ========================
4040 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4042 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4043 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4045 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4046 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4047 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4048 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4049 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4050 tags from messages in a thread.
4057 indent-tabs-mode: nil