1 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
2 ===========================
7 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
9 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
10 =========================
15 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
16 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
19 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
20 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
21 the set of headers to be indexed.
23 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
26 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
27 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
28 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
31 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
32 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
33 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
35 Command Line Interface
36 ----------------------
38 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
41 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
43 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
44 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
45 more details about what is included there. This status includes
46 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
51 Optionally check for missing attachements in outgoing messages (see
52 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
54 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
56 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
58 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
60 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
62 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
65 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
67 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
68 and may be removed in a future release.
70 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
76 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
78 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
79 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
84 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
85 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
91 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
92 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
93 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
95 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
96 ===========================
98 Command line interface
99 ----------------------
101 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
102 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
104 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
105 ===========================
110 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
111 by message properties.
116 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
118 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
119 ===========================
124 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
129 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
130 now needed to build this documentation.
132 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
133 ===========================
138 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
139 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
141 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
142 =========================
149 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
150 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
151 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
152 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
153 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
156 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
158 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
159 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
160 correct encoding for such messages.
162 Command Line Interface
163 ----------------------
165 Support relative database paths
167 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
168 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
169 to $HOME of the invoking user.
174 Improve stderr handling
176 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
177 needed on e.g. macOS.
179 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
181 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
186 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
187 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
193 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
194 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
200 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
201 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
204 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
205 =========================
210 Add support for thread:{} queries
212 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
213 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
214 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
216 Command Line Interface
217 ----------------------
219 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
221 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
223 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
225 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
226 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
227 does not have to be available during message receipt.
232 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
238 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
239 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
241 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
242 ===========================
247 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
249 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
250 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
251 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
253 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
255 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
256 related abort in `notmuch show`.
258 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
259 ===========================
264 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
265 better late than never.
268 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
269 =========================
271 Command Line Interface
272 ----------------------
274 Support for re-indexing existing messages
276 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
277 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
278 change the way specific messages are indexed.
280 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
281 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
282 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
284 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
286 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
288 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
290 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
291 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
292 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
293 the setting of `new.tags`.
295 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
297 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
299 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
301 This inserts into the top level folder.
303 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
305 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
307 New option --output=address for notmuch address
309 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
311 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
313 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
314 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
315 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
317 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
322 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
324 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
325 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
326 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
327 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
328 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
329 config set index.decrypt true".
331 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
332 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
333 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
334 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
335 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
336 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
337 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
338 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
340 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
341 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
342 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
343 this feature without considering the security of your index.
348 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
350 Use make-process when available
352 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
353 notmuch command without using temporary files.
358 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
360 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
361 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
362 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
363 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
365 New functions to count files
367 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
368 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
370 New function to remove properties
372 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
373 drop all properties with a common pattern:
374 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
376 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
378 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
379 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
380 possibility of NULL was not documented.
382 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
384 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
385 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
386 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
387 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
388 operator may decide to change from message to message.
395 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
396 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
397 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
403 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
405 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
406 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
408 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
410 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
412 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
414 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
419 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
420 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
422 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
423 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
424 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
425 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
426 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
427 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
432 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
434 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
435 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
436 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
437 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
439 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
440 ===========================
445 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
446 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
449 Command Line Interface
450 ----------------------
452 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
453 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
456 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
457 ===========================
459 Command Line Interface
460 ----------------------
462 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
463 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
468 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
471 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
472 ===========================
477 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
480 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
481 =========================
486 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
488 Skip HTML tags when indexing
490 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
492 Command Line Interface
493 ----------------------
495 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
497 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
502 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
504 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
505 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
508 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
513 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
515 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
516 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
518 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
520 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
521 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
524 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
526 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
528 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
530 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
531 ===========================
533 Command Line Interface
534 ----------------------
536 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
541 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
543 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
544 ===========================
549 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
551 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
552 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
555 Command Line Interface
556 ----------------------
558 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
560 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
562 Fix bug in dump header
564 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
565 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
566 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
571 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
573 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
574 =========================
579 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
581 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
584 Command Line Interface
585 ----------------------
587 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
589 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
590 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
591 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
593 New default output format to 3
595 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
596 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
597 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
598 default format changes.
603 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
605 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
606 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
607 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
608 or tree view to resume.
610 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
611 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
612 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
615 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
616 they were when you postponed in the final message.
620 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
621 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
622 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
623 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
624 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
628 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
629 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
630 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
631 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
632 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
633 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
637 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
638 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
640 Stop display of `application/*` parts
642 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
643 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
644 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
645 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
646 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
647 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
648 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
649 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
652 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
654 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
655 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
656 only tagged the current thread.)
658 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
660 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
661 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
662 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
664 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
666 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
667 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
668 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
669 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
670 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
671 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
672 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
674 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
676 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
677 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
678 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
683 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
685 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
688 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
690 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
693 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
694 ===========================
699 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
701 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
702 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
703 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
706 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
707 ===========================
709 Command Line Interface
710 ----------------------
712 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
717 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
719 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
720 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
721 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
723 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
724 ===========================
729 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
730 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
732 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
733 ===========================
735 Command Line Interface
736 ----------------------
738 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
740 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
741 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
742 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
747 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
749 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
750 ===========================
752 Command Line Interface
753 ----------------------
755 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
760 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
762 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
763 ===========================
768 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
770 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
771 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
772 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
774 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
776 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
778 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
779 ===========================
784 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
786 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
791 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
793 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
794 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
795 the original colours.
797 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
798 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
800 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
802 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
803 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
804 bug, and hence the test.
806 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
807 =========================
809 General (Xapian 1.4+)
810 ---------------------
812 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
814 Support for single argument date: queries
816 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
818 Support for blocking opens
820 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
821 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
823 Support for named queries
825 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
826 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
827 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
834 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
835 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
836 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
837 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
839 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
841 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
846 Support for compile time options
848 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
849 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
852 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
854 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
855 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
856 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
857 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
858 scripts to ignore it.
863 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
865 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
866 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
867 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
869 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
870 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
871 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
872 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
873 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
874 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
875 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
877 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
878 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
881 Make internal address completion customizable
883 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
884 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
885 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
886 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
889 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
891 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
892 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
893 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
894 completion for the current buffer.
896 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
897 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
898 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
902 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
903 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
904 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
905 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
906 will be added instead.
908 Face customization is easier
910 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
911 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
912 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
913 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
915 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
920 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
925 Go bindings moved to contrib
927 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
929 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
931 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
932 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
934 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
936 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
937 ===========================
944 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
945 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
947 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
949 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
951 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
952 ===========================
957 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
959 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
964 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
969 Use `env` to locate perl.
974 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
976 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
978 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
980 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
982 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
983 =========================
990 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
991 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
993 Limited support for S/MIME messages
995 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
996 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
997 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1002 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1003 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1004 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1006 Command Line Interface
1007 ----------------------
1009 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1011 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1016 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1021 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1023 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1024 parts are now included in replies.
1026 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1027 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1028 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1029 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1031 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1033 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1035 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1037 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1038 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1039 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1040 forwards only the current message.
1042 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1044 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1045 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1046 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1047 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1048 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1049 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1050 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1051 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1054 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1055 longer generate empty buffers
1057 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1058 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1059 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1060 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1061 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1063 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1065 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1068 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1070 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1073 Address completion improvements
1075 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1076 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1077 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1078 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1079 interactive address completion.
1081 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1083 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1084 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1085 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1090 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1091 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1092 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1098 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1099 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1100 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1101 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1102 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1103 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1105 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1106 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1107 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1108 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1109 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1110 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1112 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1113 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1115 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1116 =========================
1121 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1124 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1126 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1127 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1128 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1130 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1131 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1133 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1134 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1135 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1137 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1139 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1140 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1141 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1142 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1143 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1144 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1149 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1150 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1153 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1154 option to configure.
1156 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1158 Command Line Interface
1159 ----------------------
1161 Database revision tracking
1163 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1164 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1165 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1166 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1168 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1170 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1171 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1172 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1173 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1174 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1175 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1176 manual page for further information.
1181 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1183 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1184 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1186 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1188 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1189 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1190 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1192 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1194 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1196 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1197 customization as well.
1199 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1201 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1203 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1205 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1207 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1208 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1209 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1210 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1212 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1214 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1215 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1216 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1217 this variable to 10000.
1222 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1223 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1225 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1227 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1228 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1229 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1230 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1231 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1232 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1233 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1234 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1235 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1238 Database revision tracking
1240 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1241 query parser and the new function
1242 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1244 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1246 Deprecated functions
1248 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1249 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1250 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1251 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1256 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1258 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1259 ===========================
1264 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1266 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1267 ===========================
1272 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1274 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1275 =========================
1277 Command-Line Interface
1278 ----------------------
1280 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1282 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1283 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1284 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1286 Path to gpg is now configurable
1288 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1289 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1294 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1296 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1301 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1306 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1311 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1313 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1314 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1316 New error logging facility
1318 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1319 output formerly printed to stderr.
1321 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1323 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1325 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1327 Fix for rounding of seconds
1332 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1334 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1335 documentation has been removed.
1337 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1339 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1340 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1345 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1346 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1347 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1352 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1353 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1354 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1355 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1356 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1357 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1360 git checkout config origin/config
1362 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1364 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1365 =========================
1370 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1371 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1372 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1373 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1374 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1375 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1376 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1378 Command-Line Interface
1379 ----------------------
1381 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1383 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1384 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1385 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1386 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1387 script callers should still check the return value.
1389 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1391 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1392 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1393 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1394 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1395 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1396 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1397 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1399 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1401 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1402 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1403 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1405 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1407 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1408 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1409 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1410 currently unmaintained.
1412 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1414 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1415 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1416 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1417 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1419 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1421 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1422 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1423 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1424 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1425 count of duplicate addresses.
1430 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1432 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1433 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1434 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1437 Improved handling of the unread tag
1439 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1440 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1441 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1442 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1443 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1444 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1445 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1447 Expanded default saved search settings
1449 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1450 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1452 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1454 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1455 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1456 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1458 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1460 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1461 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1462 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1463 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1464 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1465 the variable for details.
1470 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1472 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1473 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1474 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1475 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1477 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1479 Previously, library users were required to call
1480 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1481 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1482 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1483 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1484 too out of date for that API.
1486 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1488 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1489 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1490 atomic section will be aborted.
1492 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1493 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1495 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1497 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1498 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1499 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1500 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1501 messages into the same thread.
1506 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1507 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1508 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1509 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1510 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1511 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1516 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1517 from the config file. Use something like:
1521 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1522 "footer": "</body></html>",
1531 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1536 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1537 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1538 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1540 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1541 ===========================
1546 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1548 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1550 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1552 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1553 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1555 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1557 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1560 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1561 ===========================
1563 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1568 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1570 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1572 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1574 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1576 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1582 Use --quick when starting emacs
1584 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1586 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1588 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1590 Command-Line Interface
1591 ----------------------
1593 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1594 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1599 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1601 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1602 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1604 Fix for phrase indexing
1606 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1607 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1608 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1613 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1615 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1616 unintentionally removed.
1618 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1619 =========================
1624 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1625 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1626 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1627 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1628 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1629 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1630 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1631 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1632 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1638 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1640 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1641 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1642 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1643 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1644 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1645 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1646 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1647 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1649 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1651 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1652 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1653 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1654 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1657 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1659 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1660 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1661 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1662 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1663 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1664 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1665 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1670 Notmuch database upgrade
1672 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1673 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1674 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1675 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1676 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1677 released version of Notmuch before now.
1679 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1681 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1682 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1683 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1684 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1686 Message header parsing changes
1688 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1689 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1690 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1691 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1692 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1693 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1695 Command-Line Interface
1696 ----------------------
1698 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1700 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1702 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1704 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1706 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1708 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1709 user does not want it.
1711 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1713 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1714 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1715 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1716 support formatted output.
1718 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1720 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1721 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1722 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1730 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1731 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1732 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1733 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1734 `~/.emacs` with these.
1736 Changed format for saved searches
1738 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1739 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1740 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1741 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1744 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1745 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1746 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1747 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1749 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1750 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1751 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1753 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1754 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1755 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1756 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1757 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1759 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1761 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1762 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1763 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1765 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1767 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1768 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1769 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1770 message had been unread).
1772 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1773 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1774 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1775 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1777 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1778 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1779 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1781 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1782 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1783 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1784 to tags already present.
1788 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1789 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1790 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1791 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1792 these differ from each other.
1793 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1795 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1797 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1798 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1799 for these Emacs versions.
1801 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1803 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1804 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1806 Bug fixes for sender identities
1808 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1809 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1810 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1812 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1814 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1815 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1816 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1817 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1819 Reply pushes mark before signature
1821 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1822 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1823 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1825 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1827 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1828 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1834 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1835 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1837 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1838 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1839 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1840 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1842 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1843 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1844 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1845 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1846 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1848 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1850 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1851 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1853 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1854 =========================
1856 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1857 ---------------------------------------
1859 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1860 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1861 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1862 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1863 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1864 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1865 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1869 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1870 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1872 Command-Line Interface
1873 ----------------------
1875 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1877 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1878 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1879 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1880 print for each message.
1882 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1883 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1884 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1885 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1887 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1889 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1890 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1891 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1893 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1895 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1896 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1897 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1898 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1900 `notmuch compact` command
1902 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1903 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1904 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1905 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1906 move the compacted database into place.
1911 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1913 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1914 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1915 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1916 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1917 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1918 and multiple threads.
1920 Using `notmuch-tree`
1922 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1924 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1925 search, show and tree mode itself)
1927 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1930 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1931 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1933 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1935 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1936 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1937 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1938 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1939 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1940 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1941 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1943 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1945 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1946 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1947 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1948 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1949 thread when the search was performed.
1951 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1953 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1954 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1955 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1957 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1959 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1960 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1963 Built-in help improvements
1965 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1966 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1967 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1969 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1971 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1972 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1973 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1975 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1977 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1978 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1980 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1982 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1983 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1984 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1985 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1987 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1989 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1990 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1991 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1992 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1994 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1996 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1997 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1998 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2000 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2002 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2003 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2004 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2006 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2008 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2009 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2010 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2011 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2012 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2014 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2016 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2017 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2018 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2019 the body part of the message.
2024 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2025 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2026 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2028 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2029 =========================
2031 Command-Line Interface
2032 ----------------------
2034 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2036 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2037 folder and notmuch index.
2039 `notmuch count --batch` option
2041 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2042 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2044 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2046 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2047 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2048 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2051 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2053 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2054 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2055 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2056 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2057 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2060 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2062 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2063 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2065 Top level option to specify configuration file
2067 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2068 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2070 Bash command-line completion
2072 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2073 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2074 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2075 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2076 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2077 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2078 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2079 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2080 bash-completion package.
2082 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2087 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2089 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2090 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2091 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2092 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2093 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2094 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2095 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2096 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2098 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2100 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2101 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2102 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2104 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2106 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2107 previous thread in the search results.
2109 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2111 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2112 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2114 Faster search and show
2116 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2117 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2118 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2119 threads should show faster.
2123 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2124 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2125 in question was now removed from this release.
2130 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2131 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2136 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2138 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2139 ===========================
2144 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2146 Internal test framework changes
2147 -------------------------------
2149 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2150 being unimplemented.
2152 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2153 ===========================
2155 Internal test framework changes
2156 -------------------------------
2158 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2159 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2161 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2162 =========================
2167 Date range search support
2169 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2170 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2171 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2172 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2173 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2176 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2178 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2179 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2180 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2181 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2182 but may be removed in a future release.
2184 Command-Line Interface
2185 ----------------------
2187 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2189 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2190 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2192 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2194 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2195 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2196 officially deprecated.
2198 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2200 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2201 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2202 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2204 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2206 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2207 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2210 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2211 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2212 dump/restore format.
2214 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2216 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2217 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2218 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2220 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2222 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2223 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2224 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2226 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2228 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2229 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2230 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2231 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2236 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2238 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2239 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2240 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2241 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2243 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2245 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2246 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2247 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2248 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2249 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2250 the behavior of this, see
2251 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2252 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2254 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2255 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2256 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2258 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2260 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2261 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2264 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2266 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2267 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2268 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2269 simply displayed in place of the message.
2271 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2273 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2274 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2276 Improved text/calendar content handling
2278 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2279 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2280 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2281 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2283 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2285 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2286 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2287 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2288 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2290 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2292 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2293 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2294 for HTML email containing images.
2296 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2298 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2300 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2302 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2305 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2307 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2308 the point where it was.
2310 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2312 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2313 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2314 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2315 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2316 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2318 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2320 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2321 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2322 thread instead of the message id.
2324 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2325 -----------------------------
2327 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2328 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2329 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2330 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2331 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2332 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2333 further details and installation.
2338 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2340 Internal test framework changes
2341 -------------------------------
2343 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2345 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2346 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2347 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2348 can result in buggy behavior.
2350 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2351 =========================
2356 Maildir tag synchronization
2358 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2359 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2360 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2361 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2362 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2363 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2366 Command-Line Interface
2367 ----------------------
2369 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2370 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2371 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2372 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2373 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2379 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2381 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2383 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2384 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2385 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2387 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2389 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2390 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2391 span multiple lines.
2393 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2395 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2396 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2397 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2398 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2399 inside the result or message.
2401 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2403 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2404 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2406 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2407 user-specified formatting
2409 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2410 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2411 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2412 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2413 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2415 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2416 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2418 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2419 ===========================
2424 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2425 compilation error for this contrib package.
2427 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2428 ===========================
2433 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2435 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2436 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2437 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2438 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2440 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2441 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2444 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2445 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2446 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2447 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2450 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2452 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2455 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2456 =========================
2458 Command-Line Interface
2459 ----------------------
2463 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2464 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2465 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2466 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2468 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2469 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2470 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2471 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2475 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2476 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2478 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2479 tag in your query, for example:
2481 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2483 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2484 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2486 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2487 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2489 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2491 Raw show format changes
2493 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2494 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2495 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2496 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2497 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2498 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2499 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2500 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2502 Listing configuration items
2504 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2510 Changes to tagging interface
2512 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2513 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2514 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2515 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2516 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2517 for more information.
2519 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2520 may need to update in custom configurations.
2522 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2524 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2525 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2526 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2527 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2530 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2531 -----------------------------
2533 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2534 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2535 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2536 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2537 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2538 contrib/ from now on.
2543 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2544 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2546 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2547 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2549 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2550 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2551 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2553 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2554 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2556 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2557 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2558 returning the new database object or directory object.
2565 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2566 compatible with go 1.
2568 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2569 =========================
2571 Command-Line Interface
2572 ----------------------
2576 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2577 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2578 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2579 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2581 Mail store folder/file ignore
2583 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2584 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2585 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2587 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2588 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2590 Unified help and manual pages
2592 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2593 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2596 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2598 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2599 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2607 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2608 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2609 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2610 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2612 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2614 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2615 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2617 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2620 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2621 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2622 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2624 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2626 should be changed to:
2628 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2630 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2632 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2633 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2635 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2637 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2638 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2639 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2640 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2641 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2642 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2646 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2647 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2648 of Mailing List Archives.
2650 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2652 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2653 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2656 Show view archiving key binding changes
2658 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2659 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2660 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2661 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2662 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2665 Support text/calendar MIME type
2667 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2670 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2672 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2673 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2674 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2675 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2677 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2679 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2680 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2681 messages blue by default in the search view.
2685 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2686 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2693 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2696 Python bindings changes
2697 -----------------------
2699 Python 3.2 compatibility
2701 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2703 Added missing unicode conversions
2705 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2706 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2707 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2712 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2714 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2715 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2716 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2717 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2718 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2720 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2721 ===========================
2726 Fix error handling in python bindings
2728 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2729 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2730 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2731 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2733 Quote MML tags in replies
2735 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2736 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2737 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2738 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2739 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2740 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2741 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2742 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2744 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2745 =========================
2747 Command-Line Interface
2748 ----------------------
2752 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2753 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2754 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2755 importing new messages into the database.
2757 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2759 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2760 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2761 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2766 Automatic tag query optimization
2768 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2769 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2770 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2772 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2774 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2775 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2776 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2781 Reduction of memory leaks
2783 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2784 and fixed in this release.
2791 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2792 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2793 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2796 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2798 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2799 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2800 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2803 Improvements in saved search management
2805 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2806 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2807 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2809 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2811 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2812 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2813 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2815 New face for crypto parts headers
2817 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2818 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2819 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2822 Use space as default thousands separator
2824 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2825 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2826 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2828 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2829 buttonized id: links
2831 New function notmuch-show-advance
2833 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2834 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2835 be bound to SPC with:
2837 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2839 Various performance improvements
2844 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2845 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2848 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2849 ===========================
2854 Fix crash in python bindings
2856 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2857 for some, but not all users.
2859 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2860 ===========================
2865 Fix `--help` argument
2867 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2868 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2869 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2871 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2872 =========================
2874 New build and testing features
2875 ------------------------------
2877 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2878 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2879 prerequisites is improved.
2881 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2883 New command-line features
2884 -------------------------
2886 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2888 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2889 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2892 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2894 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2895 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2896 favour of using stdout.
2898 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2900 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2901 limit the number of results shown.
2903 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2905 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2906 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2909 New emacs UI features
2910 ---------------------
2912 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2914 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2915 starting with "tag:".
2917 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2919 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2920 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2922 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2924 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2926 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2928 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2929 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2934 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2936 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2938 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2939 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2940 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2941 requires a database rebuild:
2943 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2944 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2946 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2948 New collection of add-on tools
2949 ------------------------------
2951 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2952 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2953 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2956 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2958 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2959 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2960 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2962 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2963 ========================
2965 New, general features
2966 ---------------------
2968 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2970 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2971 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2972 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2973 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2974 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2981 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2982 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2984 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2988 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2989 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2990 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2993 Python bindings changes
2994 -----------------------
2996 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2998 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2999 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3000 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3001 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3002 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3003 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3005 Ruby bindings changes
3006 ---------------------
3008 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3009 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3010 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3011 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3016 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3018 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3019 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3021 Reply formatting cleanup
3022 ------------------------
3024 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3025 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3027 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3028 ========================
3030 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3032 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3033 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3034 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3035 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3038 Improved Build system portability
3040 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3041 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3042 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3044 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3046 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3048 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3050 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3051 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3052 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3054 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3055 ========================
3057 Vim interface improvements
3058 --------------------------
3060 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3062 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3063 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3064 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3065 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3066 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3068 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3070 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3071 * fix compose temp file name
3073 Python Bindings changes
3074 -----------------------
3076 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3078 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3079 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3081 Build-System improvements
3082 -------------------------
3084 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3086 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3089 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3090 ==========================
3095 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3097 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3098 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3100 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3101 =======================
3103 New, general features
3104 ---------------------
3106 Folder-based searching
3108 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3109 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3110 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3114 For example, one might use things such as:
3120 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3121 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3123 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3124 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3125 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3126 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3128 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3129 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3130 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3133 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3134 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3136 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3138 Support for PGP/MIME
3140 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3141 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3142 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3144 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3146 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3147 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3149 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3150 notmuch will receive these tags.
3152 New command-line features
3153 -------------------------
3155 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3157 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3158 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3160 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3162 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3163 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3164 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3166 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3168 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3169 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3170 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3171 which parts a signature part applies).
3173 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3175 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3176 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3177 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3178 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3179 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3182 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3184 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3185 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3186 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3187 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3188 by translating it internally to the new call.
3190 Performance improvements
3191 ------------------------
3193 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3195 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3196 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3197 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3199 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3200 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3202 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3204 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3205 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3206 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3208 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3209 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3210 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3211 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3213 Faster initial indexing
3215 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3216 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3217 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3219 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3221 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3222 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3223 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3224 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3226 New emacs-interface features
3227 ----------------------------
3229 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3231 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3232 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3233 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3234 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3235 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3236 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3238 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3240 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3241 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3242 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3243 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3245 User-selectable From address
3247 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3248 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3249 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3250 will prompt for the from address to use.
3252 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3253 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3254 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3256 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3257 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3258 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3261 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3263 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3264 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3266 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3268 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3270 ----- Original Message -----
3272 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3273 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3274 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3275 citations work much like conventional citations.
3277 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3279 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3280 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3281 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3282 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3283 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3285 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3286 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3288 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3290 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3291 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3292 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3294 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3296 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3297 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3298 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3299 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3300 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3302 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3304 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3307 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3309 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3311 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3313 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3316 Vim interface improvements
3317 --------------------------
3319 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3321 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3322 * Implementing archive in show view
3323 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3324 * Add delete commands
3327 Bindings improvements
3328 ---------------------
3330 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3332 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3333 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3335 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3337 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3341 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3342 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3343 `list(Messages)` works now
3344 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3346 These allow, for example:
3348 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3350 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3352 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3358 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3360 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3363 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3365 New build-system features
3366 -------------------------
3368 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3370 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3371 the configure script from some other directory:
3378 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3380 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3381 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3382 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3383 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3384 manual invocation of configure.
3386 New test-suite feature
3387 ----------------------
3389 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3391 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3392 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3393 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3394 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3395 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3398 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3400 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3401 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3402 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3403 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3404 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3405 are updated to take advantage of this.
3407 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3409 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3410 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3411 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3412 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3418 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3420 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3421 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3422 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3424 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3426 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3428 to:user@elsewhere.com
3430 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3432 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3434 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3436 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3437 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3438 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3441 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3442 from the Received headers in some cases
3444 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3445 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3447 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3449 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3451 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3453 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3454 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3455 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3457 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3458 -------------------------
3460 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3462 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3463 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3464 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3466 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3468 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3469 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3470 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3473 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3475 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3476 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3477 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3478 fixed to avoid this bug.
3480 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3482 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3483 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3485 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3486 ========================
3488 New, general features
3489 ---------------------
3491 Maildir-flag synchronization
3493 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3494 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3503 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3505 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3506 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3507 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3508 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3510 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3511 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3512 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3513 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3516 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3518 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3519 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3520 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3522 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3523 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3525 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3526 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3528 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3529 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3530 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3532 New library features
3533 --------------------
3535 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3537 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3538 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3539 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3540 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3542 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3543 message with the new function:
3545 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3547 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3548 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3549 over all available filenames for a given message.
3551 New command-line features
3552 -------------------------
3554 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3556 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3557 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3558 access to the mail store itself.
3560 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3561 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3562 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3563 name of a script containing:
3565 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3567 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3568 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3574 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3576 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3578 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3580 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3581 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3582 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3583 now produces nothing).
3585 Emacs interface improvements
3586 ----------------------------
3588 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3590 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3592 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3594 Display current thread subject in a header line
3596 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3598 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3600 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3601 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3602 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3603 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3604 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3605 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3606 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3608 Vim interface improvements
3609 --------------------------
3611 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3613 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3614 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3620 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3622 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3623 ========================
3625 New command-line features
3626 -------------------------
3628 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3630 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3631 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3632 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3634 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3635 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3636 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3637 scripts. For example:
3639 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3640 <operations-on> "$file"
3643 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3645 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3646 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3647 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3648 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3649 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3650 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3652 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3654 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3655 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3656 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3657 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3659 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3661 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3662 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3663 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3664 default rather than Bcc.
3666 New library features
3667 --------------------
3669 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3671 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3672 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3677 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3679 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3680 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3681 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3682 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3683 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3684 notmuch customize interface.
3686 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3688 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3689 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3690 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3691 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3693 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3695 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3696 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3697 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3698 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3700 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3702 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3703 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3704 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3705 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3706 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3707 notmuch customize interface.
3709 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3711 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3712 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3713 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3714 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3715 notmuch customize interface.
3717 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3719 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3720 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3721 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3722 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3725 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3727 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3728 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3729 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3732 New build-system features
3733 -------------------------
3735 Various portability fixes have been applied
3737 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3738 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3739 more portable than ever before.
3741 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3743 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3744 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3745 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3747 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3748 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3749 automatically run ldconfig.
3751 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3752 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3753 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3755 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3756 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3757 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3758 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3760 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3762 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3763 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3764 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3765 used in the resulting Makefile.
3767 New test-suite features
3768 -----------------------
3770 New modularization of test suite
3772 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3773 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3774 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3775 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3776 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3777 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3778 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3779 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3781 New testing of emacs interface
3783 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3784 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3785 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3786 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3787 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3788 database via the FCC setting.
3793 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3795 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3796 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3797 persistent error of the form:
3799 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3801 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3802 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3804 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3806 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3807 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3808 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3810 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3812 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3813 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3814 parsing the notmuch results).
3816 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3818 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3821 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3822 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3823 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3828 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3830 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3831 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3832 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3833 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3834 the emacs interface.
3836 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3838 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3839 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3840 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3842 Python-binding fixes
3843 --------------------
3845 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3847 Debian-specific fixes
3848 ---------------------
3850 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3852 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3853 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3854 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3857 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3858 ==========================
3863 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3865 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3866 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3867 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3868 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3870 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3872 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3873 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3874 want notmuch to crash.
3879 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3881 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3882 directory does not exist
3887 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3889 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3890 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3892 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3893 ========================
3895 New command-line features
3896 -------------------------
3898 User-configurable tags for new messages
3900 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3901 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3902 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3903 to specify this value.
3905 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3907 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3908 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3909 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3911 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3913 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3914 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3916 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3918 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3919 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3920 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3921 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3922 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3925 Indication of author names that match a search
3927 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3928 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3929 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3930 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3931 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3932 messages in the thread are listed first.
3934 New: Python bindings
3935 --------------------
3937 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3938 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3939 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3940 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3942 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3943 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3944 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3947 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3948 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3949 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3951 Emacs interface improvements
3952 ----------------------------
3954 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3956 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3957 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3958 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3959 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3960 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3961 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3962 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3963 but without any of the disadvantages).
3965 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3966 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3967 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3970 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3971 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3972 instead running something like:
3974 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3976 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3977 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3978 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3981 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3983 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3984 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3985 tweaked by the user.
3987 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3988 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3989 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3992 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3993 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3994 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3997 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3999 This support currently relies on an external program,
4000 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4001 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4002 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4003 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4004 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4007 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4008 notmuch) is available via:
4010 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4012 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4013 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4014 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4016 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4018 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4019 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4020 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4021 making this automatic in a future release.
4023 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4025 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4026 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4027 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4028 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4029 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4030 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4033 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4035 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4036 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4037 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4039 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4041 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4042 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4043 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4045 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4046 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4047 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4048 other representation.
4050 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4051 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4054 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4056 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4057 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4058 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4060 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4061 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4062 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4064 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4066 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4067 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4068 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4069 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4070 to display the search result.
4072 More flexible handling of header visibility
4074 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4075 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4076 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4077 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4078 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4079 with the 'h' keybinding.
4081 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4082 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4083 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4085 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4087 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4089 Customizable formatting of search results
4091 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4092 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4093 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4095 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4097 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4099 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4104 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4106 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4107 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4108 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4109 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4115 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4117 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4118 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4120 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4122 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4123 accept are now all accepted.
4128 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4130 Better display of output from failed tests
4132 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4133 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4135 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4136 ========================
4138 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4139 detailed release notes this time!
4141 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4142 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4144 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4145 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4146 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4147 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4154 Better guessing of From: header
4156 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4157 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4158 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4159 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4160 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4163 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4165 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4166 guaranteed to match all messages.
4168 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4170 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4171 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4172 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4173 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4174 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4177 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4180 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4181 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4182 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4183 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4188 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4190 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4191 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4192 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4193 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4195 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4197 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4199 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4200 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4201 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4203 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4205 Previously, the user might see:
4207 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4211 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4213 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4214 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4215 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4216 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4218 Emacs client features
4219 ---------------------
4221 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4223 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4224 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4225 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4226 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4227 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4229 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4232 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4233 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4234 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4235 search with the '*' binding.
4237 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4239 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4240 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4243 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4245 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4246 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4247 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4249 Build-system features
4250 ---------------------
4252 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4254 Add support to configure for many standard options
4256 We include actual support for:
4258 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4260 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4262 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4263 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4265 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4266 separate "make install-emacs"
4268 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4270 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4271 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4272 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4274 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4277 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4278 ========================
4280 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4282 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4283 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4285 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4286 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4287 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4288 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4289 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4290 tags from messages in a thread.
4297 indent-tabs-mode: nil