1 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
2 ===========================
7 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
8 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
9 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
11 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
12 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
13 database in a pre-new hook.
15 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
16 default worked only in "notmuch config".
21 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
22 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
24 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
25 =========================
30 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
31 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
32 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
33 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
34 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
35 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
36 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
37 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
38 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
39 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
40 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
45 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
46 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
48 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
49 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
50 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
51 - `notmuch_config_get`
53 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
54 now exposed (and generalized).
56 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
57 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
58 session has been fixed.
60 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
61 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
66 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
67 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
69 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
70 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
75 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
76 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
77 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
78 when prompting for senders.
80 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
81 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
84 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
86 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
88 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
89 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
90 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
91 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
92 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
93 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
94 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
96 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
97 ===========================
102 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
107 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
109 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
110 ===========================
115 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
120 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
125 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
127 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
128 ===========================
133 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
134 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
136 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
137 ===========================
142 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
147 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
148 with a C++ header for some compilers.
150 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
152 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
153 =========================
158 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
159 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
160 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
162 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
164 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
166 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
168 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
171 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
173 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
174 search, show and tree mode)
176 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
179 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
182 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
183 always be newest first.
188 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
189 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
190 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
196 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
197 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
198 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
199 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
201 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
202 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
203 non-status providing versions.
205 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
206 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
208 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
209 promised in the documentation.
214 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
215 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
216 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
221 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
222 development version).
227 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
232 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
234 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
235 =========================
240 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
241 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
242 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
245 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
251 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
252 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
253 notmuch-properties(7)).
258 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
259 has protected headers (see
260 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
261 notmuch-properties(7)).
266 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
268 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
269 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
275 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
278 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
279 ===========================
284 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
286 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
291 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
293 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
294 ===========================
299 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
300 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
302 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
303 ===========================
308 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
310 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
311 =========================
316 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
317 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
320 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
321 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
322 the set of headers to be indexed.
324 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
327 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
328 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
329 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
332 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
333 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
334 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
336 Command Line Interface
337 ----------------------
339 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
342 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
344 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
345 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
346 more details about what is included there. This status includes
347 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
352 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
353 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
355 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
357 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
359 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
361 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
363 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
366 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
368 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
369 and may be removed in a future release.
371 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
377 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
379 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
380 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
385 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
386 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
387 cryptography support.
392 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
393 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
394 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
396 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
397 ===========================
399 Command line interface
400 ----------------------
402 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
403 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
405 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
406 ===========================
411 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
412 by message properties.
417 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
419 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
420 ===========================
425 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
430 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
431 now needed to build this documentation.
433 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
434 ===========================
439 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
440 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
442 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
443 =========================
450 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
451 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
452 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
453 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
454 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
457 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
459 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
460 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
461 correct encoding for such messages.
463 Command Line Interface
464 ----------------------
466 Support relative database paths
468 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
469 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
470 to $HOME of the invoking user.
475 Improve stderr handling
477 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
478 needed on e.g. macOS.
480 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
482 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
487 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
488 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
494 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
495 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
501 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
502 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
505 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
506 =========================
511 Add support for thread:{} queries
513 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
514 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
515 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
517 Command Line Interface
518 ----------------------
520 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
522 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
524 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
526 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
527 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
528 does not have to be available during message receipt.
533 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
539 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
540 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
542 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
543 ===========================
548 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
550 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
551 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
552 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
554 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
556 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
557 related abort in `notmuch show`.
559 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
560 ===========================
565 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
566 better late than never.
569 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
570 =========================
572 Command Line Interface
573 ----------------------
575 Support for re-indexing existing messages
577 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
578 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
579 change the way specific messages are indexed.
581 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
582 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
583 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
585 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
587 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
589 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
591 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
592 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
593 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
594 the setting of `new.tags`.
596 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
598 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
600 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
602 This inserts into the top level folder.
604 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
606 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
608 New option --output=address for notmuch address
610 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
612 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
614 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
615 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
616 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
618 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
623 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
625 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
626 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
627 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
628 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
629 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
630 config set index.decrypt true".
632 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
633 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
634 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
635 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
636 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
637 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
638 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
639 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
641 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
642 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
643 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
644 this feature without considering the security of your index.
649 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
651 Use make-process when available
653 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
654 notmuch command without using temporary files.
659 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
661 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
662 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
663 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
664 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
666 New functions to count files
668 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
669 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
671 New function to remove properties
673 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
674 drop all properties with a common pattern:
675 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
677 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
679 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
680 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
681 possibility of NULL was not documented.
683 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
685 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
686 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
687 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
688 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
689 operator may decide to change from message to message.
696 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
697 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
698 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
704 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
706 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
707 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
709 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
711 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
713 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
715 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
720 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
721 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
723 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
724 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
725 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
726 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
727 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
728 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
733 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
735 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
736 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
737 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
738 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
740 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
741 ===========================
746 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
747 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
750 Command Line Interface
751 ----------------------
753 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
754 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
757 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
758 ===========================
760 Command Line Interface
761 ----------------------
763 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
764 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
769 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
772 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
773 ===========================
778 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
781 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
782 =========================
787 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
789 Skip HTML tags when indexing
791 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
793 Command Line Interface
794 ----------------------
796 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
798 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
803 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
805 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
806 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
809 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
814 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
816 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
817 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
819 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
821 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
822 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
825 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
827 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
829 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
831 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
832 ===========================
834 Command Line Interface
835 ----------------------
837 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
842 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
844 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
845 ===========================
850 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
852 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
853 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
856 Command Line Interface
857 ----------------------
859 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
861 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
863 Fix bug in dump header
865 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
866 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
867 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
872 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
874 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
875 =========================
880 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
882 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
885 Command Line Interface
886 ----------------------
888 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
890 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
891 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
892 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
894 New default output format to 3
896 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
897 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
898 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
899 default format changes.
904 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
906 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
907 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
908 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
909 or tree view to resume.
911 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
912 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
913 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
916 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
917 they were when you postponed in the final message.
921 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
922 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
923 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
924 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
925 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
929 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
930 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
931 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
932 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
933 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
934 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
938 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
939 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
941 Stop display of `application/*` parts
943 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
944 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
945 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
946 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
947 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
948 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
949 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
950 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
953 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
955 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
956 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
957 only tagged the current thread.)
959 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
961 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
962 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
963 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
965 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
967 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
968 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
969 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
970 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
971 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
972 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
973 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
975 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
977 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
978 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
979 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
984 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
986 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
989 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
991 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
994 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
995 ===========================
1000 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1002 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1003 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1004 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1007 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1008 ===========================
1010 Command Line Interface
1011 ----------------------
1013 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1018 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1020 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1021 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1022 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1024 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1025 ===========================
1030 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1031 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1033 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1034 ===========================
1036 Command Line Interface
1037 ----------------------
1039 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1041 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1042 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1043 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1048 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1050 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1051 ===========================
1053 Command Line Interface
1054 ----------------------
1056 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1061 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1063 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1064 ===========================
1069 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1071 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1072 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1073 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1075 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1077 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1079 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1080 ===========================
1085 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1087 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1092 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1094 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1095 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1096 the original colours.
1098 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1099 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1101 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1103 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1104 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1105 bug, and hence the test.
1107 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1108 =========================
1110 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1111 ---------------------
1113 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1115 Support for single argument date: queries
1117 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1119 Support for blocking opens
1121 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1122 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1124 Support for named queries
1126 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1127 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1128 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1133 Message property API
1135 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1136 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1137 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1138 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1140 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1142 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1147 Support for compile time options
1149 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1150 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1153 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1155 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1156 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1157 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1158 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1159 scripts to ignore it.
1164 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1166 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1167 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1168 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1170 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1171 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1172 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1173 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1174 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1175 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1176 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1178 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1179 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1182 Make internal address completion customizable
1184 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1185 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1186 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1187 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1190 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1192 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1193 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1194 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1195 completion for the current buffer.
1197 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1198 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1199 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1203 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1204 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1205 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1206 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1207 will be added instead.
1209 Face customization is easier
1211 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1212 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1213 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1214 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1216 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1221 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1226 Go bindings moved to contrib
1228 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1230 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1232 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1233 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1235 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1237 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1238 ===========================
1245 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1246 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1248 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1250 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1252 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1253 ===========================
1258 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1260 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1265 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1270 Use `env` to locate perl.
1275 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1277 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1279 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1281 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1283 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1284 =========================
1291 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1292 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1294 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1296 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1297 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1298 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1303 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1304 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1305 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1307 Command Line Interface
1308 ----------------------
1310 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1312 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1317 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1322 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1324 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1325 parts are now included in replies.
1327 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1328 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1329 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1330 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1332 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1334 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1336 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1338 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1339 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1340 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1341 forwards only the current message.
1343 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1345 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1346 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1347 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1348 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1349 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1350 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1351 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1352 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1355 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1356 longer generate empty buffers
1358 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1359 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1360 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1361 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1362 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1364 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1366 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1369 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1371 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1374 Address completion improvements
1376 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1377 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1378 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1379 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1380 interactive address completion.
1382 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1384 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1385 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1386 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1391 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1392 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1393 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1399 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1400 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1401 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1402 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1403 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1404 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1406 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1407 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1408 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1409 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1410 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1411 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1413 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1414 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1416 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1417 =========================
1422 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1425 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1427 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1428 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1429 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1431 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1432 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1434 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1435 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1436 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1438 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1440 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1441 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1442 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1443 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1444 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1445 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1450 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1451 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1454 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1455 option to configure.
1457 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1459 Command Line Interface
1460 ----------------------
1462 Database revision tracking
1464 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1465 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1466 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1467 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1469 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1471 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1472 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1473 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1474 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1475 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1476 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1477 manual page for further information.
1482 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1484 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1485 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1487 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1489 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1490 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1491 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1493 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1495 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1497 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1498 customization as well.
1500 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1502 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1504 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1506 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1508 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1509 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1510 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1511 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1513 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1515 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1516 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1517 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1518 this variable to 10000.
1523 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1524 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1526 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1528 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1529 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1530 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1531 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1532 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1533 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1534 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1535 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1536 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1539 Database revision tracking
1541 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1542 query parser and the new function
1543 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1545 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1547 Deprecated functions
1549 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1550 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1551 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1552 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1557 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1559 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1560 ===========================
1565 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1567 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1568 ===========================
1573 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1575 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1576 =========================
1578 Command-Line Interface
1579 ----------------------
1581 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1583 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1584 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1585 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1587 Path to gpg is now configurable
1589 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1590 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1595 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1597 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1602 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1607 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1612 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1614 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1615 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1617 New error logging facility
1619 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1620 output formerly printed to stderr.
1622 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1624 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1626 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1628 Fix for rounding of seconds
1633 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1635 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1636 documentation has been removed.
1638 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1640 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1641 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1646 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1647 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1648 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1653 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1654 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1655 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1656 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1657 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1658 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1661 git checkout config origin/config
1663 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1665 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1666 =========================
1671 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1672 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1673 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1674 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1675 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1676 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1677 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1679 Command-Line Interface
1680 ----------------------
1682 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1684 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1685 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1686 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1687 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1688 script callers should still check the return value.
1690 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1692 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1693 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1694 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1695 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1696 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1697 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1698 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1700 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1702 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1703 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1704 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1706 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1708 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1709 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1710 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1711 currently unmaintained.
1713 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1715 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1716 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1717 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1718 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1720 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1722 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1723 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1724 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1725 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1726 count of duplicate addresses.
1731 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1733 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1734 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1735 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1738 Improved handling of the unread tag
1740 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1741 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1742 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1743 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1744 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1745 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1746 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1748 Expanded default saved search settings
1750 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1751 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1753 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1755 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1756 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1757 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1759 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1761 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1762 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1763 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1764 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1765 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1766 the variable for details.
1771 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1773 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1774 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1775 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1776 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1778 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1780 Previously, library users were required to call
1781 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1782 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1783 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1784 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1785 too out of date for that API.
1787 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1789 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1790 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1791 atomic section will be aborted.
1793 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1794 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1796 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1798 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1799 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1800 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1801 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1802 messages into the same thread.
1807 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1808 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1809 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1810 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1811 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1812 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1817 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1818 from the config file. Use something like:
1822 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1823 "footer": "</body></html>",
1832 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1837 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1838 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1839 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1841 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1842 ===========================
1847 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1849 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1851 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1853 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1854 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1856 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1858 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1861 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1862 ===========================
1864 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1869 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1871 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1873 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1875 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1877 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1883 Use --quick when starting emacs
1885 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1887 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1889 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1891 Command-Line Interface
1892 ----------------------
1894 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1895 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1900 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1902 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1903 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1905 Fix for phrase indexing
1907 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1908 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1909 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1914 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1916 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1917 unintentionally removed.
1919 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1920 =========================
1925 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1926 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1927 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1928 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1929 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1930 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1931 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1932 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1933 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1939 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1941 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1942 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1943 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1944 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1945 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1946 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1947 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1948 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1950 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1952 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1953 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1954 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1955 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1958 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1960 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1961 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1962 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1963 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1964 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1965 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1966 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1971 Notmuch database upgrade
1973 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1974 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1975 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1976 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1977 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1978 released version of Notmuch before now.
1980 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1982 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1983 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1984 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1985 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1987 Message header parsing changes
1989 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1990 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1991 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1992 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1993 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1994 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1996 Command-Line Interface
1997 ----------------------
1999 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2001 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2003 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2005 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2007 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2009 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2010 user does not want it.
2012 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2014 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2015 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2016 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2017 support formatted output.
2019 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2021 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2022 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2023 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2031 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2032 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2033 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2034 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2035 `~/.emacs` with these.
2037 Changed format for saved searches
2039 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2040 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2041 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2042 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2045 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2046 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2047 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2048 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2050 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2051 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2052 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2054 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2055 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2056 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2057 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2058 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2060 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2062 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2063 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2064 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2066 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2068 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2069 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2070 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2071 message had been unread).
2073 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2074 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2075 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2076 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2078 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2079 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2080 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2082 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2083 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2084 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2085 to tags already present.
2089 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2090 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2091 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2092 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2093 these differ from each other.
2094 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2096 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2098 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2099 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2100 for these Emacs versions.
2102 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2104 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2105 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2107 Bug fixes for sender identities
2109 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2110 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2111 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2113 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2115 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2116 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2117 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2118 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2120 Reply pushes mark before signature
2122 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2123 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2124 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2126 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2128 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2129 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2135 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2136 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2138 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2139 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2140 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2141 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2143 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2144 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2145 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2146 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2147 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2149 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2151 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2152 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2154 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2155 =========================
2157 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2158 ---------------------------------------
2160 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2161 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2162 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2163 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2164 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2165 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2166 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2170 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2171 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2173 Command-Line Interface
2174 ----------------------
2176 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2178 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2179 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2180 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2181 print for each message.
2183 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2184 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2185 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2186 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2188 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2190 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2191 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2192 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2194 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2196 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2197 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2198 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2199 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2201 `notmuch compact` command
2203 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2204 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2205 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2206 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2207 move the compacted database into place.
2212 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2214 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2215 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2216 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2217 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2218 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2219 and multiple threads.
2221 Using `notmuch-tree`
2223 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2225 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2226 search, show and tree mode itself)
2228 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2231 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2232 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2234 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2236 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2237 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2238 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2239 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2240 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2241 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2242 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2244 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2246 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2247 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2248 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2249 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2250 thread when the search was performed.
2252 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2254 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2255 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2256 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2258 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2260 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2261 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2264 Built-in help improvements
2266 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2267 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2268 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2270 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2272 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2273 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2274 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2276 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2278 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2279 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2281 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2283 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2284 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2285 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2286 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2288 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2290 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2291 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2292 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2293 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2295 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2297 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2298 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2299 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2301 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2303 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2304 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2305 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2307 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2309 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2310 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2311 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2312 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2313 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2315 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2317 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2318 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2319 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2320 the body part of the message.
2325 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2326 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2327 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2329 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2330 =========================
2332 Command-Line Interface
2333 ----------------------
2335 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2337 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2338 folder and notmuch index.
2340 `notmuch count --batch` option
2342 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2343 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2345 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2347 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2348 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2349 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2352 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2354 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2355 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2356 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2357 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2358 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2361 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2363 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2364 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2366 Top level option to specify configuration file
2368 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2369 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2371 Bash command-line completion
2373 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2374 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2375 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2376 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2377 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2378 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2379 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2380 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2381 bash-completion package.
2383 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2388 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2390 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2391 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2392 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2393 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2394 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2395 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2396 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2397 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2399 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2401 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2402 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2403 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2405 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2407 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2408 previous thread in the search results.
2410 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2412 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2413 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2415 Faster search and show
2417 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2418 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2419 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2420 threads should show faster.
2424 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2425 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2426 in question was now removed from this release.
2431 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2432 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2437 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2439 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2440 ===========================
2445 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2447 Internal test framework changes
2448 -------------------------------
2450 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2451 being unimplemented.
2453 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2454 ===========================
2456 Internal test framework changes
2457 -------------------------------
2459 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2460 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2462 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2463 =========================
2468 Date range search support
2470 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2471 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2472 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2473 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2474 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2477 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2479 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2480 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2481 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2482 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2483 but may be removed in a future release.
2485 Command-Line Interface
2486 ----------------------
2488 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2490 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2491 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2493 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2495 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2496 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2497 officially deprecated.
2499 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2501 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2502 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2503 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2505 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2507 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2508 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2511 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2512 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2513 dump/restore format.
2515 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2517 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2518 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2519 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2521 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2523 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2524 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2525 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2527 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2529 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2530 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2531 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2532 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2537 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2539 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2540 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2541 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2542 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2544 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2546 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2547 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2548 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2549 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2550 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2551 the behavior of this, see
2552 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2553 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2555 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2556 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2557 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2559 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2561 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2562 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2565 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2567 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2568 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2569 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2570 simply displayed in place of the message.
2572 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2574 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2575 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2577 Improved text/calendar content handling
2579 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2580 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2581 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2582 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2584 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2586 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2587 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2588 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2589 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2591 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2593 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2594 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2595 for HTML email containing images.
2597 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2599 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2601 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2603 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2606 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2608 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2609 the point where it was.
2611 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2613 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2614 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2615 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2616 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2617 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2619 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2621 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2622 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2623 thread instead of the message id.
2625 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2626 -----------------------------
2628 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2629 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2630 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2631 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2632 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2633 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2634 further details and installation.
2639 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2641 Internal test framework changes
2642 -------------------------------
2644 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2646 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2647 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2648 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2649 can result in buggy behavior.
2651 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2652 =========================
2657 Maildir tag synchronization
2659 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2660 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2661 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2662 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2663 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2664 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2667 Command-Line Interface
2668 ----------------------
2670 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2671 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2672 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2673 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2674 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2680 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2682 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2684 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2685 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2686 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2688 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2690 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2691 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2692 span multiple lines.
2694 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2696 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2697 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2698 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2699 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2700 inside the result or message.
2702 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2704 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2705 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2707 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2708 user-specified formatting
2710 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2711 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2712 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2713 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2714 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2716 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2717 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2719 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2720 ===========================
2725 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2726 compilation error for this contrib package.
2728 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2729 ===========================
2734 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2736 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2737 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2738 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2739 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2741 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2742 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2745 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2746 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2747 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2748 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2751 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2753 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2756 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2757 =========================
2759 Command-Line Interface
2760 ----------------------
2764 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2765 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2766 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2767 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2769 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2770 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2771 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2772 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2776 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2777 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2779 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2780 tag in your query, for example:
2782 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2784 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2785 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2787 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2788 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2790 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2792 Raw show format changes
2794 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2795 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2796 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2797 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2798 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2799 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2800 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2801 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2803 Listing configuration items
2805 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2811 Changes to tagging interface
2813 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2814 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2815 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2816 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2817 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2818 for more information.
2820 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2821 may need to update in custom configurations.
2823 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2825 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2826 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2827 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2828 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2831 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2832 -----------------------------
2834 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2835 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2836 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2837 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2838 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2839 contrib/ from now on.
2844 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2845 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2847 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2848 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2850 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2851 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2852 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2854 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2855 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2857 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2858 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2859 returning the new database object or directory object.
2866 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2867 compatible with go 1.
2869 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2870 =========================
2872 Command-Line Interface
2873 ----------------------
2877 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2878 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2879 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2880 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2882 Mail store folder/file ignore
2884 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2885 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2886 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2888 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2889 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2891 Unified help and manual pages
2893 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2894 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2897 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2899 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2900 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2908 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2909 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2910 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2911 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2913 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2915 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2916 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2918 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2921 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2922 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2923 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2925 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2927 should be changed to:
2929 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2931 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2933 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2934 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2936 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2938 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2939 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2940 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2941 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2942 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2943 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2947 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2948 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2949 of Mailing List Archives.
2951 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2953 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2954 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2957 Show view archiving key binding changes
2959 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2960 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2961 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2962 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2963 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2966 Support text/calendar MIME type
2968 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2971 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2973 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2974 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2975 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2976 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2978 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2980 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2981 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2982 messages blue by default in the search view.
2986 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2987 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2994 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2997 Python bindings changes
2998 -----------------------
3000 Python 3.2 compatibility
3002 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3004 Added missing unicode conversions
3006 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3007 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3008 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3013 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3015 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3016 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3017 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3018 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3019 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3021 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3022 ===========================
3027 Fix error handling in python bindings
3029 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3030 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3031 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3032 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3034 Quote MML tags in replies
3036 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3037 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3038 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3039 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3040 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3041 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3042 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3043 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3045 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3046 =========================
3048 Command-Line Interface
3049 ----------------------
3053 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3054 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3055 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3056 importing new messages into the database.
3058 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3060 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3061 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3062 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3067 Automatic tag query optimization
3069 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3070 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3071 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3073 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3075 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3076 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3077 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3082 Reduction of memory leaks
3084 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3085 and fixed in this release.
3092 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3093 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3094 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3097 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3099 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3100 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3101 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3104 Improvements in saved search management
3106 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3107 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3108 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3110 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3112 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3113 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3114 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3116 New face for crypto parts headers
3118 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3119 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3120 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3123 Use space as default thousands separator
3125 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3126 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3127 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3129 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3130 buttonized id: links
3132 New function notmuch-show-advance
3134 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3135 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3136 be bound to SPC with:
3138 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3140 Various performance improvements
3145 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3146 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3149 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3150 ===========================
3155 Fix crash in python bindings
3157 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3158 for some, but not all users.
3160 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3161 ===========================
3166 Fix `--help` argument
3168 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3169 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3170 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3172 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3173 =========================
3175 New build and testing features
3176 ------------------------------
3178 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3179 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3180 prerequisites is improved.
3182 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3184 New command-line features
3185 -------------------------
3187 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3189 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3190 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3193 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3195 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3196 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3197 favour of using stdout.
3199 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3201 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3202 limit the number of results shown.
3204 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3206 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3207 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3210 New emacs UI features
3211 ---------------------
3213 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3215 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3216 starting with "tag:".
3218 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3220 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3221 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3223 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3225 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3227 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3229 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3230 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3235 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3237 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3239 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3240 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3241 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3242 requires a database rebuild:
3244 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3245 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3247 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3249 New collection of add-on tools
3250 ------------------------------
3252 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3253 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3254 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3257 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3259 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3260 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3261 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3263 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3264 ========================
3266 New, general features
3267 ---------------------
3269 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3271 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3272 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3273 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3274 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3275 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3282 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3283 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3285 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3289 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3290 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3291 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3294 Python bindings changes
3295 -----------------------
3297 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3299 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3300 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3301 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3302 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3303 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3304 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3306 Ruby bindings changes
3307 ---------------------
3309 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3310 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3311 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3312 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3317 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3319 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3320 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3322 Reply formatting cleanup
3323 ------------------------
3325 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3326 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3328 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3329 ========================
3331 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3333 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3334 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3335 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3336 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3339 Improved Build system portability
3341 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3342 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3343 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3345 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3347 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3349 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3351 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3352 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3353 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3355 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3356 ========================
3358 Vim interface improvements
3359 --------------------------
3361 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3363 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3364 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3365 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3366 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3367 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3369 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3371 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3372 * fix compose temp file name
3374 Python Bindings changes
3375 -----------------------
3377 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3379 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3380 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3382 Build-System improvements
3383 -------------------------
3385 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3387 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3390 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3391 ==========================
3396 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3398 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3399 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3401 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3402 =======================
3404 New, general features
3405 ---------------------
3407 Folder-based searching
3409 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3410 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3411 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3415 For example, one might use things such as:
3421 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3422 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3424 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3425 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3426 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3427 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3429 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3430 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3431 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3434 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3435 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3437 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3439 Support for PGP/MIME
3441 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3442 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3443 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3445 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3447 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3448 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3450 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3451 notmuch will receive these tags.
3453 New command-line features
3454 -------------------------
3456 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3458 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3459 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3461 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3463 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3464 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3465 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3467 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3469 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3470 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3471 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3472 which parts a signature part applies).
3474 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3476 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3477 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3478 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3479 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3480 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3483 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3485 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3486 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3487 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3488 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3489 by translating it internally to the new call.
3491 Performance improvements
3492 ------------------------
3494 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3496 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3497 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3498 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3500 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3501 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3503 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3505 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3506 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3507 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3509 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3510 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3511 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3512 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3514 Faster initial indexing
3516 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3517 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3518 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3520 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3522 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3523 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3524 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3525 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3527 New emacs-interface features
3528 ----------------------------
3530 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3532 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3533 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3534 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3535 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3536 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3537 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3539 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3541 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3542 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3543 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3544 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3546 User-selectable From address
3548 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3549 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3550 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3551 will prompt for the from address to use.
3553 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3554 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3555 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3557 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3558 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3559 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3562 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3564 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3565 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3567 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3569 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3571 ----- Original Message -----
3573 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3574 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3575 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3576 citations work much like conventional citations.
3578 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3580 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3581 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3582 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3583 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3584 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3586 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3587 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3589 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3591 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3592 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3593 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3595 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3597 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3598 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3599 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3600 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3601 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3603 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3605 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3608 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3610 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3612 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3614 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3617 Vim interface improvements
3618 --------------------------
3620 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3622 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3623 * Implementing archive in show view
3624 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3625 * Add delete commands
3628 Bindings improvements
3629 ---------------------
3631 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3633 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3634 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3636 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3638 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3642 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3643 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3644 `list(Messages)` works now
3645 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3647 These allow, for example:
3649 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3651 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3653 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3659 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3661 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3664 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3666 New build-system features
3667 -------------------------
3669 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3671 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3672 the configure script from some other directory:
3679 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3681 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3682 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3683 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3684 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3685 manual invocation of configure.
3687 New test-suite feature
3688 ----------------------
3690 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3692 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3693 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3694 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3695 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3696 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3699 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3701 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3702 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3703 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3704 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3705 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3706 are updated to take advantage of this.
3708 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3710 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3711 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3712 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3713 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3719 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3721 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3722 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3723 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3725 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3727 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3729 to:user@elsewhere.com
3731 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3733 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3735 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3737 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3738 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3739 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3742 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3743 from the Received headers in some cases
3745 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3746 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3748 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3750 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3752 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3754 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3755 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3756 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3758 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3759 -------------------------
3761 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3763 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3764 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3765 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3767 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3769 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3770 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3771 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3774 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3776 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3777 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3778 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3779 fixed to avoid this bug.
3781 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3783 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3784 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3786 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3787 ========================
3789 New, general features
3790 ---------------------
3792 Maildir-flag synchronization
3794 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3795 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3804 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3806 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3807 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3808 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3809 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3811 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3812 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3813 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3814 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3817 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3819 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3820 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3821 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3823 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3824 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3826 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3827 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3829 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3830 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3831 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3833 New library features
3834 --------------------
3836 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3838 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3839 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3840 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3841 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3843 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3844 message with the new function:
3846 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3848 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3849 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3850 over all available filenames for a given message.
3852 New command-line features
3853 -------------------------
3855 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3857 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3858 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3859 access to the mail store itself.
3861 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3862 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3863 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3864 name of a script containing:
3866 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3868 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3869 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3875 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3877 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3879 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3881 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3882 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3883 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3884 now produces nothing).
3886 Emacs interface improvements
3887 ----------------------------
3889 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3891 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3893 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3895 Display current thread subject in a header line
3897 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3899 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3901 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3902 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3903 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3904 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3905 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3906 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3907 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3909 Vim interface improvements
3910 --------------------------
3912 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3914 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3915 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3921 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3923 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3924 ========================
3926 New command-line features
3927 -------------------------
3929 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3931 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3932 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3933 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3935 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3936 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3937 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3938 scripts. For example:
3940 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3941 <operations-on> "$file"
3944 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3946 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3947 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3948 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3949 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3950 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3951 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3953 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3955 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3956 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3957 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3958 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3960 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3962 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3963 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3964 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3965 default rather than Bcc.
3967 New library features
3968 --------------------
3970 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3972 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3973 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3978 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3980 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3981 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3982 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3983 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3984 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3985 notmuch customize interface.
3987 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3989 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3990 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3991 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3992 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3994 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3996 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3997 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3998 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3999 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4001 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4003 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4004 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4005 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4006 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4007 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4008 notmuch customize interface.
4010 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4012 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4013 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4014 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4015 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4016 notmuch customize interface.
4018 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4020 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4021 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4022 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4023 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4026 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4028 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4029 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4030 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4033 New build-system features
4034 -------------------------
4036 Various portability fixes have been applied
4038 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4039 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4040 more portable than ever before.
4042 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4044 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4045 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4046 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4048 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4049 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4050 automatically run ldconfig.
4052 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4053 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4054 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4056 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4057 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4058 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4059 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4061 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4063 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4064 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4065 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4066 used in the resulting Makefile.
4068 New test-suite features
4069 -----------------------
4071 New modularization of test suite
4073 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4074 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4075 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4076 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4077 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4078 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4079 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4080 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4082 New testing of emacs interface
4084 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4085 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4086 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4087 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4088 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4089 database via the FCC setting.
4094 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4096 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4097 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4098 persistent error of the form:
4100 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4102 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4103 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4105 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4107 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4108 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4109 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4111 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4113 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4114 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4115 parsing the notmuch results).
4117 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4119 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4122 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4123 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4124 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4129 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4131 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4132 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4133 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4134 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4135 the emacs interface.
4137 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4139 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4140 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4141 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4143 Python-binding fixes
4144 --------------------
4146 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4148 Debian-specific fixes
4149 ---------------------
4151 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4153 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4154 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4155 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4158 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4159 ==========================
4164 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4166 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4167 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4168 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4169 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4171 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4173 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4174 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4175 want notmuch to crash.
4180 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4182 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4183 directory does not exist
4188 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4190 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4191 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4193 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4194 ========================
4196 New command-line features
4197 -------------------------
4199 User-configurable tags for new messages
4201 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4202 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4203 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4204 to specify this value.
4206 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4208 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4209 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4210 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4212 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4214 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4215 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4217 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4219 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4220 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4221 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4222 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4223 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4226 Indication of author names that match a search
4228 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4229 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4230 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4231 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4232 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4233 messages in the thread are listed first.
4235 New: Python bindings
4236 --------------------
4238 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4239 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4240 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4241 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4243 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4244 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4245 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4248 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4249 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4250 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4252 Emacs interface improvements
4253 ----------------------------
4255 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4257 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4258 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4259 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4260 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4261 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4262 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4263 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4264 but without any of the disadvantages).
4266 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4267 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4268 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4271 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4272 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4273 instead running something like:
4275 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4277 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4278 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4279 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4282 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4284 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4285 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4286 tweaked by the user.
4288 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4289 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4290 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4293 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4294 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4295 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4298 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4300 This support currently relies on an external program,
4301 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4302 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4303 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4304 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4305 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4308 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4309 notmuch) is available via:
4311 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4313 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4314 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4315 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4317 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4319 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4320 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4321 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4322 making this automatic in a future release.
4324 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4326 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4327 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4328 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4329 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4330 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4331 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4334 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4336 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4337 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4338 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4340 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4342 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4343 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4344 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4346 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4347 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4348 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4349 other representation.
4351 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4352 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4355 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4357 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4358 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4359 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4361 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4362 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4363 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4365 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4367 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4368 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4369 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4370 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4371 to display the search result.
4373 More flexible handling of header visibility
4375 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4376 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4377 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4378 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4379 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4380 with the 'h' keybinding.
4382 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4383 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4384 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4386 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4388 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4390 Customizable formatting of search results
4392 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4393 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4394 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4396 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4398 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4400 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4405 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4407 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4408 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4409 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4410 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4416 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4418 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4419 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4421 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4423 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4424 accept are now all accepted.
4429 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4431 Better display of output from failed tests
4433 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4434 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4436 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4437 ========================
4439 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4440 detailed release notes this time!
4442 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4443 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4445 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4446 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4447 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4448 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4455 Better guessing of From: header
4457 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4458 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4459 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4460 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4461 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4464 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4466 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4467 guaranteed to match all messages.
4469 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4471 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4472 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4473 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4474 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4475 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4478 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4481 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4482 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4483 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4484 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4489 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4491 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4492 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4493 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4494 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4496 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4498 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4500 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4501 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4502 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4504 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4506 Previously, the user might see:
4508 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4512 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4514 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4515 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4516 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4517 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4519 Emacs client features
4520 ---------------------
4522 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4524 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4525 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4526 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4527 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4528 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4530 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4533 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4534 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4535 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4536 search with the '*' binding.
4538 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4540 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4541 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4544 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4546 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4547 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4548 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4550 Build-system features
4551 ---------------------
4553 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4555 Add support to configure for many standard options
4557 We include actual support for:
4559 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4561 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4563 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4564 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4566 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4567 separate "make install-emacs"
4569 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4571 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4572 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4573 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4575 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4578 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4579 ========================
4581 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4583 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4584 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4586 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4587 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4588 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4589 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4590 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4591 tags from messages in a thread.
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