1 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
2 ===========================
7 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
12 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
13 now needed to build this documentation.
15 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
16 ===========================
21 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
22 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
24 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
25 =========================
32 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
33 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
34 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
35 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
36 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
39 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
41 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
42 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
43 correct encoding for such messages.
45 Command Line Interface
46 ----------------------
48 Support relative database paths
50 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
51 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
52 to $HOME of the invoking user.
57 Improve stderr handling
59 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
62 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
64 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
69 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
70 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
76 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
77 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
83 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
84 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
87 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
88 =========================
93 Add support for thread:{} queries
95 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
96 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
97 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
99 Command Line Interface
100 ----------------------
102 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
104 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
106 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
108 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
109 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
110 does not have to be available during message receipt.
115 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
121 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
122 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
124 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
125 ===========================
130 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
132 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
133 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
134 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
136 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
138 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
139 related abort in `notmuch show`.
141 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
142 ===========================
147 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
148 better late than never.
151 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
152 =========================
154 Command Line Interface
155 ----------------------
157 Support for re-indexing existing messages
159 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
160 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
161 change the way specific messages are indexed.
163 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
164 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
165 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
167 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
169 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
171 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
173 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
174 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
175 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
176 the setting of `new.tags`.
178 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
180 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
182 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
184 This inserts into the top level folder.
186 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
188 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
190 New option --output=address for notmuch address
192 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
194 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
196 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
197 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
198 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
200 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
205 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
207 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
208 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
209 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
210 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
211 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
212 config set index.decrypt true".
214 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
215 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
216 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
217 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
218 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
219 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
220 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
221 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
223 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
224 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
225 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
226 this feature without considering the security of your index.
231 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
233 Use make-process when available
235 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
236 notmuch command without using temporary files.
241 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
243 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
244 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
245 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
246 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
248 New functions to count files
250 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
251 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
253 New function to remove properties
255 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
256 drop all properties with a common pattern:
257 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
259 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
261 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
262 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
263 possibility of NULL was not documented.
265 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
267 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
268 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
269 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
270 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
271 operator may decide to change from message to message.
278 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
279 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
280 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
286 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
288 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
289 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
291 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
293 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
295 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
297 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
302 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
303 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
305 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
306 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
307 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
308 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
309 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
310 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
315 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
317 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
318 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
319 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
320 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
322 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
323 ===========================
328 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
329 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
332 Command Line Interface
333 ----------------------
335 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
336 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
339 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
340 ===========================
342 Command Line Interface
343 ----------------------
345 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
346 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
351 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
354 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
355 ===========================
360 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
363 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
364 =========================
369 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
371 Skip HTML tags when indexing
373 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
375 Command Line Interface
376 ----------------------
378 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
380 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
385 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
387 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
388 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
391 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
396 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
398 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
399 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
401 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
403 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
404 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
407 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
409 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
411 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
413 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
414 ===========================
416 Command Line Interface
417 ----------------------
419 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
424 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
426 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
427 ===========================
432 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
434 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
435 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
438 Command Line Interface
439 ----------------------
441 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
443 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
445 Fix bug in dump header
447 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
448 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
449 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
454 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
456 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
457 =========================
462 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
464 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
467 Command Line Interface
468 ----------------------
470 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
472 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
473 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
474 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
476 New default output format to 3
478 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
479 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
480 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
481 default format changes.
486 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
488 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
489 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
490 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
491 or tree view to resume.
493 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
494 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
495 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
498 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
499 they were when you postponed in the final message.
503 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
504 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
505 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
506 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
507 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
511 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
512 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
513 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
514 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
515 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
516 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
520 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
521 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
523 Stop display of `application/*` parts
525 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
526 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
527 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
528 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
529 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
530 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
531 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
532 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
535 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
537 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
538 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
539 only tagged the current thread.)
541 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
543 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
544 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
545 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
547 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
549 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
550 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
551 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
552 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
553 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
554 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
555 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
557 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
559 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
560 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
561 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
566 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
568 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
571 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
573 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
576 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
577 ===========================
582 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
584 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
585 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
586 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
589 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
590 ===========================
592 Command Line Interface
593 ----------------------
595 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
600 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
602 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
603 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
604 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
606 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
607 ===========================
612 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
613 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
615 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
616 ===========================
618 Command Line Interface
619 ----------------------
621 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
623 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
624 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
625 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
630 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
632 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
633 ===========================
635 Command Line Interface
636 ----------------------
638 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
643 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
645 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
646 ===========================
651 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
653 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
654 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
655 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
657 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
659 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
661 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
662 ===========================
667 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
669 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
674 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
676 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
677 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
678 the original colours.
680 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
681 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
683 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
685 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
686 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
687 bug, and hence the test.
689 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
690 =========================
692 General (Xapian 1.4+)
693 ---------------------
695 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
697 Support for single argument date: queries
699 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
701 Support for blocking opens
703 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
704 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
706 Support for named queries
708 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
709 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
710 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
717 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
718 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
719 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
720 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
722 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
724 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
729 Support for compile time options
731 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
732 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
735 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
737 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
738 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
739 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
740 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
741 scripts to ignore it.
746 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
748 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
749 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
750 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
752 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
753 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
754 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
755 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
756 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
757 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
758 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
760 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
761 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
764 Make internal address completion customizable
766 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
767 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
768 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
769 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
772 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
774 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
775 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
776 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
777 completion for the current buffer.
779 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
780 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
781 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
785 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
786 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
787 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
788 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
789 will be added instead.
791 Face customization is easier
793 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
794 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
795 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
796 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
798 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
803 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
808 Go bindings moved to contrib
810 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
812 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
814 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
815 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
817 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
819 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
820 ===========================
827 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
828 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
830 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
832 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
834 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
835 ===========================
840 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
842 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
847 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
852 Use `env` to locate perl.
857 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
859 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
861 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
863 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
865 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
866 =========================
873 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
874 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
876 Limited support for S/MIME messages
878 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
879 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
880 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
885 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
886 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
887 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
889 Command Line Interface
890 ----------------------
892 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
894 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
899 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
904 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
906 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
907 parts are now included in replies.
909 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
910 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
911 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
912 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
914 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
916 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
918 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
920 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
921 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
922 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
923 forwards only the current message.
925 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
927 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
928 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
929 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
930 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
931 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
932 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
933 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
934 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
937 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
938 longer generate empty buffers
940 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
941 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
942 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
943 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
944 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
946 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
948 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
951 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
953 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
956 Address completion improvements
958 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
959 you previously configured one, customize the variable
960 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
961 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
962 interactive address completion.
964 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
966 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
967 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
968 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
973 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
974 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
975 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
981 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
982 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
983 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
984 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
985 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
986 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
988 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
989 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
990 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
991 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
992 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
993 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
995 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
996 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
998 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
999 =========================
1004 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1007 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1009 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1010 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1011 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1013 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1014 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1016 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1017 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1018 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1020 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1022 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1023 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1024 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1025 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1026 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1027 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1032 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1033 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1036 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1037 option to configure.
1039 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1041 Command Line Interface
1042 ----------------------
1044 Database revision tracking
1046 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1047 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1048 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1049 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1051 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1053 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1054 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1055 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1056 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1057 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1058 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1059 manual page for further information.
1064 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1066 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1067 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1069 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1071 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1072 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1073 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1075 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1077 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1079 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1080 customization as well.
1082 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1084 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1086 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1088 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1090 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1091 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1092 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1093 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1095 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1097 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1098 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1099 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1100 this variable to 10000.
1105 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1106 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1108 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1110 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1111 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1112 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1113 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1114 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1115 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1116 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1117 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1118 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1121 Database revision tracking
1123 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1124 query parser and the new function
1125 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1127 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1129 Deprecated functions
1131 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1132 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1133 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1134 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1139 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1141 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1142 ===========================
1147 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1149 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1150 ===========================
1155 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1157 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1158 =========================
1160 Command-Line Interface
1161 ----------------------
1163 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1165 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1166 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1167 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1169 Path to gpg is now configurable
1171 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1172 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1177 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1179 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1184 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1189 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1194 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1196 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1197 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1199 New error logging facility
1201 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1202 output formerly printed to stderr.
1204 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1206 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1208 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1210 Fix for rounding of seconds
1215 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1217 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1218 documentation has been removed.
1220 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1222 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1223 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1228 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1229 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1230 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1235 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1236 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1237 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1238 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1239 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1240 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1243 git checkout config origin/config
1245 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1247 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1248 =========================
1253 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1254 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1255 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1256 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1257 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1258 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1259 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1261 Command-Line Interface
1262 ----------------------
1264 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1266 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1267 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1268 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1269 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1270 script callers should still check the return value.
1272 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1274 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1275 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1276 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1277 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1278 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1279 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1280 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1282 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1284 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1285 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1286 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1288 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1290 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1291 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1292 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1293 currently unmaintained.
1295 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1297 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1298 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1299 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1300 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1302 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1304 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1305 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1306 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1307 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1308 count of duplicate addresses.
1313 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1315 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1316 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1317 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1320 Improved handling of the unread tag
1322 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1323 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1324 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1325 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1326 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1327 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1328 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1330 Expanded default saved search settings
1332 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1333 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1335 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1337 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1338 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1339 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1341 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1343 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1344 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1345 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1346 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1347 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1348 the variable for details.
1353 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1355 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1356 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1357 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1358 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1360 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1362 Previously, library users were required to call
1363 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1364 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1365 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1366 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1367 too out of date for that API.
1369 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1371 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1372 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1373 atomic section will be aborted.
1375 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1376 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1378 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1380 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1381 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1382 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1383 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1384 messages into the same thread.
1389 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1390 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1391 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1392 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1393 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1394 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1399 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1400 from the config file. Use something like:
1404 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1405 "footer": "</body></html>",
1414 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1419 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1420 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1421 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1423 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1424 ===========================
1429 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1431 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1433 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1435 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1436 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1438 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1440 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1443 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1444 ===========================
1446 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1451 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1453 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1455 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1457 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1459 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1465 Use --quick when starting emacs
1467 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1469 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1471 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1473 Command-Line Interface
1474 ----------------------
1476 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1477 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1482 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1484 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1485 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1487 Fix for phrase indexing
1489 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1490 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1491 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1496 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1498 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1499 unintentionally removed.
1501 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1502 =========================
1507 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1508 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1509 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1510 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1511 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1512 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1513 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1514 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1515 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1521 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1523 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1524 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1525 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1526 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1527 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1528 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1529 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1530 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1532 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1534 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1535 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1536 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1537 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1540 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1542 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1543 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1544 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1545 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1546 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1547 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1548 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1553 Notmuch database upgrade
1555 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1556 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1557 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1558 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1559 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1560 released version of Notmuch before now.
1562 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1564 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1565 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1566 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1567 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1569 Message header parsing changes
1571 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1572 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1573 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1574 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1575 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1576 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1578 Command-Line Interface
1579 ----------------------
1581 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1583 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1585 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1587 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1589 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1591 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1592 user does not want it.
1594 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1596 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1597 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1598 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1599 support formatted output.
1601 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1603 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1604 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1605 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1613 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1614 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1615 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1616 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1617 `~/.emacs` with these.
1619 Changed format for saved searches
1621 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1622 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1623 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1624 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1627 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1628 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1629 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1630 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1632 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1633 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1634 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1636 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1637 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1638 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1639 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1640 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1642 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1644 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1645 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1646 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1648 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1650 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1651 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1652 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1653 message had been unread).
1655 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1656 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1657 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1658 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1660 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1661 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1662 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1664 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1665 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1666 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1667 to tags already present.
1671 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1672 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1673 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1674 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1675 these differ from each other.
1676 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1678 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1680 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1681 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1682 for these Emacs versions.
1684 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1686 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1687 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1689 Bug fixes for sender identities
1691 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1692 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1693 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1695 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1697 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1698 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1699 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1700 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1702 Reply pushes mark before signature
1704 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1705 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1706 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1708 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1710 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1711 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1717 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1718 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1720 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1721 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1722 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1723 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1725 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1726 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1727 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1728 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1729 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1731 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1733 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1734 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1736 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1737 =========================
1739 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1740 ---------------------------------------
1742 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1743 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1744 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1745 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1746 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1747 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1748 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1752 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1753 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1755 Command-Line Interface
1756 ----------------------
1758 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1760 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1761 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1762 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1763 print for each message.
1765 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1766 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1767 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1768 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1770 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1772 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1773 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1774 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1776 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1778 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1779 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1780 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1781 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1783 `notmuch compact` command
1785 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1786 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1787 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1788 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1789 move the compacted database into place.
1794 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1796 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1797 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1798 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1799 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1800 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1801 and multiple threads.
1803 Using `notmuch-tree`
1805 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1807 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1808 search, show and tree mode itself)
1810 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1813 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1814 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1816 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1818 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1819 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1820 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1821 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1822 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1823 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1824 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1826 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1828 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1829 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1830 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1831 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1832 thread when the search was performed.
1834 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1836 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1837 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1838 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1840 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1842 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1843 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1846 Built-in help improvements
1848 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1849 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1850 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1852 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1854 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1855 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1856 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1858 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1860 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1861 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1863 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1865 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1866 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1867 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1868 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1870 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1872 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1873 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1874 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1875 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1877 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1879 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1880 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1881 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1883 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1885 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1886 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1887 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1889 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1891 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1892 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1893 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1894 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1895 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1897 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1899 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1900 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1901 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1902 the body part of the message.
1907 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1908 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1909 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1911 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1912 =========================
1914 Command-Line Interface
1915 ----------------------
1917 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1919 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1920 folder and notmuch index.
1922 `notmuch count --batch` option
1924 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1925 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1927 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1929 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1930 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1931 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1934 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1936 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1937 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1938 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1939 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1940 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1943 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1945 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1946 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1948 Top level option to specify configuration file
1950 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1951 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1953 Bash command-line completion
1955 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1956 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1957 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1958 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1959 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1960 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1961 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1962 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1963 bash-completion package.
1965 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1970 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1972 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1973 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1974 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1975 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1976 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1977 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1978 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1979 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1981 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1983 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1984 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1985 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1987 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1989 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1990 previous thread in the search results.
1992 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1994 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1995 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1997 Faster search and show
1999 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2000 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2001 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2002 threads should show faster.
2006 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2007 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2008 in question was now removed from this release.
2013 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2014 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2019 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2021 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2022 ===========================
2027 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2029 Internal test framework changes
2030 -------------------------------
2032 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2033 being unimplemented.
2035 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2036 ===========================
2038 Internal test framework changes
2039 -------------------------------
2041 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2042 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2044 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2045 =========================
2050 Date range search support
2052 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2053 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2054 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2055 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2056 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2059 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2061 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2062 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2063 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2064 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2065 but may be removed in a future release.
2067 Command-Line Interface
2068 ----------------------
2070 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2072 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2073 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2075 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2077 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2078 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2079 officially deprecated.
2081 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2083 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2084 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2085 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2087 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2089 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2090 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2093 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2094 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2095 dump/restore format.
2097 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2099 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2100 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2101 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2103 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2105 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2106 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2107 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2109 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2111 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2112 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2113 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2114 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2119 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2121 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2122 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2123 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2124 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2126 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2128 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2129 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2130 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2131 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2132 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2133 the behavior of this, see
2134 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2135 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2137 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2138 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2139 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2141 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2143 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2144 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2147 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2149 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2150 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2151 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2152 simply displayed in place of the message.
2154 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2156 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2157 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2159 Improved text/calendar content handling
2161 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2162 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2163 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2164 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2166 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2168 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2169 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2170 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2171 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2173 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2175 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2176 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2177 for HTML email containing images.
2179 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2181 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2183 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2185 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2188 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2190 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2191 the point where it was.
2193 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2195 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2196 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2197 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2198 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2199 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2201 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2203 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2204 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2205 thread instead of the message id.
2207 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2208 -----------------------------
2210 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2211 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2212 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2213 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2214 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2215 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2216 further details and installation.
2221 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2223 Internal test framework changes
2224 -------------------------------
2226 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2228 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2229 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2230 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2231 can result in buggy behavior.
2233 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2234 =========================
2239 Maildir tag synchronization
2241 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2242 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2243 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2244 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2245 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2246 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2249 Command-Line Interface
2250 ----------------------
2252 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2253 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2254 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2255 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2256 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2262 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2264 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2266 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2267 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2268 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2270 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2272 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2273 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2274 span multiple lines.
2276 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2278 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2279 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2280 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2281 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2282 inside the result or message.
2284 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2286 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2287 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2289 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2290 user-specified formatting
2292 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2293 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2294 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2295 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2296 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2298 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2299 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2301 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2302 ===========================
2307 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2308 compilation error for this contrib package.
2310 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2311 ===========================
2316 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2318 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2319 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2320 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2321 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2323 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2324 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2327 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2328 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2329 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2330 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2333 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2335 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2338 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2339 =========================
2341 Command-Line Interface
2342 ----------------------
2346 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2347 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2348 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2349 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2351 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2352 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2353 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2354 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2358 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2359 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2361 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2362 tag in your query, for example:
2364 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2366 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2367 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2369 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2370 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2372 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2374 Raw show format changes
2376 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2377 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2378 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2379 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2380 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2381 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2382 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2383 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2385 Listing configuration items
2387 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2393 Changes to tagging interface
2395 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2396 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2397 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2398 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2399 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2400 for more information.
2402 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2403 may need to update in custom configurations.
2405 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2407 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2408 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2409 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2410 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2413 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2414 -----------------------------
2416 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2417 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2418 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2419 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2420 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2421 contrib/ from now on.
2426 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2427 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2429 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2430 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2432 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2433 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2434 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2436 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2437 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2439 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2440 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2441 returning the new database object or directory object.
2448 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2449 compatible with go 1.
2451 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2452 =========================
2454 Command-Line Interface
2455 ----------------------
2459 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2460 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2461 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2462 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2464 Mail store folder/file ignore
2466 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2467 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2468 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2470 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2471 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2473 Unified help and manual pages
2475 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2476 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2479 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2481 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2482 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2490 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2491 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2492 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2493 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2495 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2497 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2498 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2500 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2503 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2504 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2505 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2507 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2509 should be changed to:
2511 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2513 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2515 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2516 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2518 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2520 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2521 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2522 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2523 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2524 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2525 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2529 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2530 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2531 of Mailing List Archives.
2533 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2535 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2536 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2539 Show view archiving key binding changes
2541 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2542 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2543 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2544 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2545 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2548 Support text/calendar MIME type
2550 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2553 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2555 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2556 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2557 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2558 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2560 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2562 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2563 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2564 messages blue by default in the search view.
2568 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2569 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2576 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2579 Python bindings changes
2580 -----------------------
2582 Python 3.2 compatibility
2584 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2586 Added missing unicode conversions
2588 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2589 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2590 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2595 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2597 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2598 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2599 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2600 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2601 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2603 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2604 ===========================
2609 Fix error handling in python bindings
2611 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2612 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2613 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2614 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2616 Quote MML tags in replies
2618 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2619 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2620 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2621 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2622 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2623 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2624 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2625 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2627 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2628 =========================
2630 Command-Line Interface
2631 ----------------------
2635 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2636 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2637 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2638 importing new messages into the database.
2640 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2642 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2643 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2644 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2649 Automatic tag query optimization
2651 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2652 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2653 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2655 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2657 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2658 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2659 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2664 Reduction of memory leaks
2666 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2667 and fixed in this release.
2674 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2675 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2676 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2679 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2681 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2682 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2683 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2686 Improvements in saved search management
2688 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2689 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2690 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2692 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2694 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2695 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2696 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2698 New face for crypto parts headers
2700 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2701 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2702 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2705 Use space as default thousands separator
2707 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2708 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2709 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2711 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2712 buttonized id: links
2714 New function notmuch-show-advance
2716 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2717 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2718 be bound to SPC with:
2720 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2722 Various performance improvements
2727 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2728 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2731 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2732 ===========================
2737 Fix crash in python bindings
2739 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2740 for some, but not all users.
2742 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2743 ===========================
2748 Fix `--help` argument
2750 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2751 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2752 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2754 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2755 =========================
2757 New build and testing features
2758 ------------------------------
2760 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2761 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2762 prerequisites is improved.
2764 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2766 New command-line features
2767 -------------------------
2769 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2771 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2772 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2775 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2777 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2778 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2779 favour of using stdout.
2781 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2783 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2784 limit the number of results shown.
2786 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2788 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2789 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2792 New emacs UI features
2793 ---------------------
2795 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2797 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2798 starting with "tag:".
2800 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2802 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2803 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2805 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2807 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2809 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2811 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2812 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2817 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2819 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2821 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2822 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2823 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2824 requires a database rebuild:
2826 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2827 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2829 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2831 New collection of add-on tools
2832 ------------------------------
2834 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2835 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2836 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2839 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2841 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2842 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2843 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2845 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2846 ========================
2848 New, general features
2849 ---------------------
2851 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2853 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2854 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2855 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2856 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2857 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2864 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2865 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2867 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2871 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2872 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2873 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2876 Python bindings changes
2877 -----------------------
2879 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2881 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2882 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2883 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2884 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2885 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2886 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2888 Ruby bindings changes
2889 ---------------------
2891 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2892 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2893 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2894 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2899 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2901 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2902 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2904 Reply formatting cleanup
2905 ------------------------
2907 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2908 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2910 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2911 ========================
2913 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2915 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2916 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2917 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2918 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2921 Improved Build system portability
2923 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2924 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2925 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2927 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2929 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2931 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2933 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2934 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2935 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2937 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2938 ========================
2940 Vim interface improvements
2941 --------------------------
2943 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2945 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2946 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2947 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2948 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2949 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2951 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2953 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2954 * fix compose temp file name
2956 Python Bindings changes
2957 -----------------------
2959 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2961 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2962 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2964 Build-System improvements
2965 -------------------------
2967 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2969 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2972 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2973 ==========================
2978 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2980 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2981 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2983 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2984 =======================
2986 New, general features
2987 ---------------------
2989 Folder-based searching
2991 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2992 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2993 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2997 For example, one might use things such as:
3003 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3004 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3006 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3007 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3008 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3009 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3011 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3012 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3013 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3016 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3017 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3019 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3021 Support for PGP/MIME
3023 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3024 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3025 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3027 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3029 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3030 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3032 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3033 notmuch will receive these tags.
3035 New command-line features
3036 -------------------------
3038 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3040 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3041 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3043 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3045 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3046 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3047 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3049 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3051 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3052 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3053 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3054 which parts a signature part applies).
3056 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3058 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3059 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3060 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3061 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3062 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3065 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3067 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3068 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3069 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3070 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3071 by translating it internally to the new call.
3073 Performance improvements
3074 ------------------------
3076 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3078 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3079 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3080 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3082 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3083 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3085 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3087 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3088 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3089 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3091 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3092 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3093 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3094 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3096 Faster initial indexing
3098 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3099 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3100 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3102 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3104 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3105 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3106 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3107 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3109 New emacs-interface features
3110 ----------------------------
3112 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3114 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3115 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3116 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3117 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3118 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3119 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3121 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3123 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3124 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3125 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3126 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3128 User-selectable From address
3130 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3131 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3132 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3133 will prompt for the from address to use.
3135 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3136 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3137 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3139 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3140 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3141 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3144 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3146 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3147 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3149 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3151 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3153 ----- Original Message -----
3155 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3156 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3157 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3158 citations work much like conventional citations.
3160 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3162 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3163 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3164 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3165 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3166 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3168 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3169 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3171 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3173 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3174 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3175 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3177 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3179 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3180 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3181 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3182 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3183 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3185 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3187 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3190 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3192 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3194 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3196 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3199 Vim interface improvements
3200 --------------------------
3202 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3204 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3205 * Implementing archive in show view
3206 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3207 * Add delete commands
3210 Bindings improvements
3211 ---------------------
3213 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3215 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3216 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3218 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3220 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3224 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3225 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3226 `list(Messages)` works now
3227 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3229 These allow, for example:
3231 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3233 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3235 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3241 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3243 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3246 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3248 New build-system features
3249 -------------------------
3251 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3253 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3254 the configure script from some other directory:
3261 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3263 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3264 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3265 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3266 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3267 manual invocation of configure.
3269 New test-suite feature
3270 ----------------------
3272 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3274 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3275 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3276 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3277 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3278 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3281 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3283 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3284 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3285 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3286 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3287 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3288 are updated to take advantage of this.
3290 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3292 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3293 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3294 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3295 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3301 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3303 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3304 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3305 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3307 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3309 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3311 to:user@elsewhere.com
3313 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3315 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3317 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3319 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3320 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3321 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3324 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3325 from the Received headers in some cases
3327 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3328 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3330 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3332 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3334 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3336 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3337 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3338 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3340 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3341 -------------------------
3343 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3345 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3346 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3347 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3349 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3351 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3352 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3353 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3356 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3358 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3359 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3360 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3361 fixed to avoid this bug.
3363 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3365 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3366 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3368 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3369 ========================
3371 New, general features
3372 ---------------------
3374 Maildir-flag synchronization
3376 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3377 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3386 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3388 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3389 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3390 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3391 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3393 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3394 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3395 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3396 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3399 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3401 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3402 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3403 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3405 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3406 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3408 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3409 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3411 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3412 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3413 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3415 New library features
3416 --------------------
3418 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3420 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3421 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3422 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3423 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3425 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3426 message with the new function:
3428 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3430 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3431 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3432 over all available filenames for a given message.
3434 New command-line features
3435 -------------------------
3437 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3439 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3440 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3441 access to the mail store itself.
3443 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3444 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3445 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3446 name of a script containing:
3448 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3450 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3451 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3457 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3459 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3461 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3463 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3464 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3465 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3466 now produces nothing).
3468 Emacs interface improvements
3469 ----------------------------
3471 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3473 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3475 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3477 Display current thread subject in a header line
3479 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3481 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3483 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3484 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3485 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3486 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3487 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3488 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3489 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3491 Vim interface improvements
3492 --------------------------
3494 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3496 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3497 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3503 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3505 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3506 ========================
3508 New command-line features
3509 -------------------------
3511 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3513 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3514 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3515 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3517 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3518 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3519 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3520 scripts. For example:
3522 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3523 <operations-on> "$file"
3526 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3528 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3529 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3530 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3531 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3532 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3533 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3535 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3537 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3538 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3539 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3540 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3542 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3544 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3545 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3546 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3547 default rather than Bcc.
3549 New library features
3550 --------------------
3552 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3554 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3555 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3560 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3562 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3563 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3564 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3565 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3566 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3567 notmuch customize interface.
3569 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3571 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3572 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3573 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3574 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3576 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3578 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3579 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3580 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3581 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3583 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3585 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3586 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3587 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3588 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3589 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3590 notmuch customize interface.
3592 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3594 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3595 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3596 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3597 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3598 notmuch customize interface.
3600 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3602 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3603 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3604 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3605 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3608 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3610 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3611 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3612 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3615 New build-system features
3616 -------------------------
3618 Various portability fixes have been applied
3620 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3621 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3622 more portable than ever before.
3624 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3626 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3627 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3628 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3630 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3631 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3632 automatically run ldconfig.
3634 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3635 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3636 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3638 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3639 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3640 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3641 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3643 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3645 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3646 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3647 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3648 used in the resulting Makefile.
3650 New test-suite features
3651 -----------------------
3653 New modularization of test suite
3655 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3656 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3657 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3658 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3659 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3660 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3661 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3662 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3664 New testing of emacs interface
3666 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3667 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3668 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3669 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3670 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3671 database via the FCC setting.
3676 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3678 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3679 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3680 persistent error of the form:
3682 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3684 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3685 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3687 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3689 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3690 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3691 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3693 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3695 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3696 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3697 parsing the notmuch results).
3699 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3701 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3704 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3705 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3706 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3711 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3713 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3714 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3715 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3716 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3717 the emacs interface.
3719 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3721 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3722 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3723 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3725 Python-binding fixes
3726 --------------------
3728 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3730 Debian-specific fixes
3731 ---------------------
3733 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3735 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3736 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3737 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3740 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3741 ==========================
3746 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3748 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3749 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3750 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3751 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3753 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3755 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3756 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3757 want notmuch to crash.
3762 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3764 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3765 directory does not exist
3770 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3772 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3773 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3775 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3776 ========================
3778 New command-line features
3779 -------------------------
3781 User-configurable tags for new messages
3783 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3784 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3785 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3786 to specify this value.
3788 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3790 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3791 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3792 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3794 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3796 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3797 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3799 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3801 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3802 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3803 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3804 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3805 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3808 Indication of author names that match a search
3810 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3811 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3812 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3813 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3814 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3815 messages in the thread are listed first.
3817 New: Python bindings
3818 --------------------
3820 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3821 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3822 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3823 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3825 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3826 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3827 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3830 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3831 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3832 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3834 Emacs interface improvements
3835 ----------------------------
3837 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3839 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3840 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3841 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3842 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3843 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3844 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3845 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3846 but without any of the disadvantages).
3848 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3849 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3850 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3853 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3854 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3855 instead running something like:
3857 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3859 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3860 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3861 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3864 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3866 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3867 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3868 tweaked by the user.
3870 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3871 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3872 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3875 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3876 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3877 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3880 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3882 This support currently relies on an external program,
3883 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3884 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3885 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3886 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3887 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3890 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3891 notmuch) is available via:
3893 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3895 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3896 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3897 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3899 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3901 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3902 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3903 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3904 making this automatic in a future release.
3906 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3908 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3909 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3910 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3911 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3912 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3913 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3916 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3918 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3919 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3920 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3922 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3924 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3925 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3926 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3928 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3929 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3930 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3931 other representation.
3933 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3934 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3937 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3939 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3940 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3941 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3943 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3944 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3945 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3947 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3949 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3950 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3951 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3952 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3953 to display the search result.
3955 More flexible handling of header visibility
3957 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3958 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3959 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3960 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3961 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3962 with the 'h' keybinding.
3964 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3965 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3966 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3968 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3970 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3972 Customizable formatting of search results
3974 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3975 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3976 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3978 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3980 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3982 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3987 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3989 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3990 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3991 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3992 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3998 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4000 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4001 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4003 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4005 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4006 accept are now all accepted.
4011 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4013 Better display of output from failed tests
4015 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4016 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4018 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4019 ========================
4021 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4022 detailed release notes this time!
4024 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4025 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4027 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4028 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4029 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4030 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4037 Better guessing of From: header
4039 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4040 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4041 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4042 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4043 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4046 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4048 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4049 guaranteed to match all messages.
4051 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4053 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4054 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4055 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4056 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4057 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4060 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4063 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4064 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4065 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4066 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4071 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4073 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4074 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4075 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4076 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4078 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4080 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4082 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4083 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4084 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4086 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4088 Previously, the user might see:
4090 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4094 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4096 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4097 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4098 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4099 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4101 Emacs client features
4102 ---------------------
4104 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4106 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4107 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4108 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4109 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4110 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4112 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4115 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4116 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4117 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4118 search with the '*' binding.
4120 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4122 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4123 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4126 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4128 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4129 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4130 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4132 Build-system features
4133 ---------------------
4135 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4137 Add support to configure for many standard options
4139 We include actual support for:
4141 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4143 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4145 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4146 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4148 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4149 separate "make install-emacs"
4151 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4153 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4154 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4155 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4157 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4160 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4161 ========================
4163 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4165 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4166 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4168 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4169 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4170 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4171 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4172 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4173 tags from messages in a thread.
4180 indent-tabs-mode: nil