1 Notmuch 0.20 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
9 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
10 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
11 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
13 Path to gpg is now configurable
15 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
16 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
18 New command, `notmuch-emacs-mua`
20 This new wrapper script is intended to be a drop in replacement for
21 mutt to compose and send mail using `notmuch-emacs`
26 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
28 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
33 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
38 Support messages without Message-IDs.
43 Undeprecate single message mboxes
45 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
46 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
48 New error logging facility
50 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
51 output formerly printed to stderr.
53 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
55 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
57 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
59 Fix for rounding of seconds
64 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
66 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
67 docmumentation has been removed.
69 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
71 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
72 some material from the relicensed wiki.
77 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
78 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
79 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
84 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
85 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
86 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
87 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
88 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
89 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
92 git checkout config origin/config
94 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
96 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
97 =========================
102 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
103 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
104 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
105 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
106 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
107 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
108 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
110 Command-Line Interface
111 ----------------------
113 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
115 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
116 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
117 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
118 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
119 script callers should still check the return value.
121 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
123 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
124 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
125 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
126 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
127 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
128 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
129 and returning success even if indexing fails).
131 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
133 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
134 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
135 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
137 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
139 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
140 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
141 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
142 currently unmaintained.
144 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
146 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
147 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
148 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
149 have at least `N` files associated with them.
151 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
153 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
154 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
155 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
156 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
157 count of duplicate addresses.
162 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
164 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
165 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
166 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
169 Improved handling of the unread tag
171 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
172 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
173 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
174 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
175 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
176 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
177 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
179 Expanded default saved search settings
181 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
182 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
184 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
186 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
187 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
188 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
190 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
192 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
193 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
194 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
195 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
196 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
197 the variable for details.
202 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
204 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
205 Representing these independently of the database version number will
206 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
207 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
209 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
211 Previously, library users were required to call
212 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
213 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
214 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
215 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
216 too out of date for that API.
218 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
220 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
221 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
222 atomic section will be aborted.
224 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
225 `notmuch_database_destroy`
227 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
229 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
230 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
231 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
232 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
233 messages into the same thread.
238 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
239 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
240 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
241 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
242 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
243 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
248 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
249 from the config file. Use something like:
253 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
254 "footer": "</body></html>",
263 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
268 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
269 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
270 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
272 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
273 ===========================
278 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
280 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
282 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
284 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
285 structure for signatures changed slightly.
287 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
289 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
292 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
293 ===========================
295 This is a bug fix and portability release.
300 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
302 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
304 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
306 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
308 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
314 Use --quick when starting emacs
316 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
318 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
320 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
322 Command-Line Interface
323 ----------------------
325 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
326 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
331 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
333 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
334 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
336 Fix for phrase indexing
338 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
339 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
340 will affect only newly indexed messages.
345 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
347 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
348 unintentionally removed.
350 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
351 =========================
356 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
357 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
358 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
359 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
360 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
361 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
362 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
363 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
364 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
370 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
372 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
373 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
374 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
375 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
376 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
377 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
378 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
379 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
381 There is a new `path:` search prefix
383 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
384 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
385 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
386 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
389 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
391 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
392 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
393 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
394 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
395 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
396 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
397 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
402 Notmuch database upgrade
404 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
405 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
406 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
407 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
408 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
409 released version of Notmuch before now.
411 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
413 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
414 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
415 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
416 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
418 Message header parsing changes
420 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
421 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
422 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
423 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
424 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
425 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
427 Command-Line Interface
428 ----------------------
430 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
432 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
434 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
436 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
438 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
440 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
441 user does not want it.
443 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
445 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
446 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
447 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
448 support formatted output.
450 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
452 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
453 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
454 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
462 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
463 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
464 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
465 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
466 `~/.emacs` with these.
468 Changed format for saved searches
470 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
471 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
472 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
473 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
476 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
477 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
478 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
479 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
481 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
482 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
483 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
485 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
486 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
487 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
488 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
489 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
491 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
493 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
494 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
495 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
497 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
499 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
500 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
501 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
502 message had been unread).
504 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
505 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
506 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
507 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
509 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
510 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
511 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
513 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
514 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
515 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
516 to tags already present.
520 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
521 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
522 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
523 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
524 these differ from each other.
525 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
527 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
529 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
530 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
531 for these Emacs versions.
533 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
535 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
536 newlines before calling notmuch count.
538 Bug fixes for sender identities
540 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
541 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
542 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
544 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
546 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
547 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
548 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
549 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
551 Reply pushes mark before signature
553 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
554 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
555 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
557 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
559 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
560 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
566 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
567 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
569 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
570 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
571 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
572 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
574 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
575 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
576 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
577 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
578 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
580 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
582 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
583 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
585 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
586 =========================
588 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
589 ---------------------------------------
591 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
592 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
593 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
594 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
595 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
596 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
597 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
601 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
602 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
604 Command-Line Interface
605 ----------------------
607 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
609 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
610 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
611 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
612 print for each message.
614 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
615 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
616 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
617 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
619 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
621 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
622 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
623 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
625 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
627 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
628 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
629 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
630 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
632 `notmuch compact` command
634 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
635 functionality through a more convenient interface than
636 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
637 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
638 move the compacted database into place.
643 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
645 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
646 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
647 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
648 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
649 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
650 and multiple threads.
654 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
656 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
657 search, show and tree mode itself)
659 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
662 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
663 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
665 Customising `notmuch-tree`
667 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
668 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
669 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
670 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
671 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
672 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
673 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
675 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
677 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
678 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
679 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
680 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
681 thread when the search was performed.
683 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
685 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
686 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
687 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
689 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
691 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
692 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
695 Built-in help improvements
697 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
698 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
699 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
701 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
703 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
704 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
705 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
707 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
709 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
710 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
712 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
714 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
715 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
716 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
717 to move some of them to the common keymap.
719 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
721 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
722 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
723 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
724 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
726 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
728 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
729 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
730 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
732 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
734 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
735 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
736 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
738 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
740 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
741 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
742 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
743 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
744 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
746 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
748 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
749 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
750 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
751 the body part of the message.
756 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
757 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
758 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
760 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
761 =========================
763 Command-Line Interface
764 ----------------------
766 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
768 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
769 folder and notmuch index.
771 `notmuch count --batch` option
773 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
774 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
776 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
778 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
779 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
780 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
783 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
785 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
786 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
787 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
788 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
789 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
792 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
794 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
795 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
797 Top level option to specify configuration file
799 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
800 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
802 Bash command-line completion
804 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
805 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
806 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
807 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
808 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
809 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
810 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
811 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
812 bash-completion package.
814 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
819 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
821 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
822 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
823 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
824 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
825 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
826 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
827 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
828 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
830 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
832 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
833 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
834 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
836 Key bindings for next/previous thread
838 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
839 previous thread in the search results.
841 Better handling of errors in search buffers
843 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
844 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
846 Faster search and show
848 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
849 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
850 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
851 threads should show faster.
855 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
856 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
857 in question was now removed from this release.
862 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
863 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
868 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
870 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
871 ===========================
876 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
878 Internal test framework changes
879 -------------------------------
881 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
884 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
885 ===========================
887 Internal test framework changes
888 -------------------------------
890 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
891 build failures in non-interactive environments.
893 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
894 =========================
899 Date range search support
901 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
902 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
903 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
904 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
905 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
908 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
910 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
911 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
912 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
913 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
914 but may be removed in a future release.
916 Command-Line Interface
917 ----------------------
919 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
921 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
922 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
924 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
926 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
927 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
928 officially deprecated.
930 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
932 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
933 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
934 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
936 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
938 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
939 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
942 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
943 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
946 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
948 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
949 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
950 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
952 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
954 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
955 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
956 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
958 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
960 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
961 output separated by null characters rather than newline
962 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
963 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
968 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
970 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
971 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
972 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
973 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
975 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
977 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
978 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
979 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
980 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
981 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
982 the behavior of this, see
983 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
984 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
986 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
987 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
988 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
990 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
992 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
993 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
996 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
998 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
999 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1000 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1001 simply displayed in place of the message.
1003 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1005 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1006 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1008 Improved text/calendar content handling
1010 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1011 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1012 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1013 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1015 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1017 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1018 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1019 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1020 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1022 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1024 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1025 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1026 for HTML email containing images.
1028 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1030 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1032 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1034 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1037 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1039 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1040 the point where it was.
1042 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1044 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1045 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1046 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1047 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1048 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1050 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1052 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1053 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1054 thread instead of the message id.
1056 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1057 -----------------------------
1059 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1060 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1061 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1062 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1063 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1064 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1065 further details and installation.
1070 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1072 Internal test framework changes
1073 -------------------------------
1075 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1077 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1078 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1079 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1080 can result in buggy behavior.
1082 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1083 =========================
1088 Maildir tag synchronization
1090 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1091 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1092 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1093 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1094 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1095 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1098 Command-Line Interface
1099 ----------------------
1101 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1102 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1103 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1104 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1105 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1111 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1113 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1115 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1116 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1117 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1119 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1121 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1122 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1123 span multiple lines.
1125 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1127 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1128 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1129 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1130 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1131 inside the result or message.
1133 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1135 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1136 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1138 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1139 user-specified formatting
1141 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1142 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1143 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1144 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1145 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1147 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1148 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1150 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1151 ===========================
1156 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1157 compilation error for this contrib package.
1159 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1160 ===========================
1165 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1167 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1168 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1169 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1170 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1172 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1173 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1176 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1177 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1178 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1179 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1182 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1184 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1187 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1188 =========================
1190 Command-Line Interface
1191 ----------------------
1195 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1196 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1197 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1198 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1200 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1201 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1202 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1203 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1207 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1208 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1210 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1211 tag in your query, for example:
1213 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1215 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1216 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1218 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1219 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1221 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1223 Raw show format changes
1225 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1226 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1227 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1228 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1229 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1230 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1231 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1232 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1234 Listing configuration items
1236 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1242 Changes to tagging interface
1244 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1245 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1246 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1247 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1248 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1249 for more information.
1251 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1252 may need to update in custom configurations.
1254 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1256 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1257 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1258 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1259 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1262 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1263 -----------------------------
1265 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1266 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1267 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1268 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1269 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1270 contrib/ from now on.
1275 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1276 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1278 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1279 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1281 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1282 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1283 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1285 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1286 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1288 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1289 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1290 returning the new database object or directory object.
1297 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1298 compatible with go 1.
1300 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1301 =========================
1303 Command-Line Interface
1304 ----------------------
1308 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1309 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1310 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1311 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1313 Mail store folder/file ignore
1315 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1316 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1317 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1319 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1320 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1322 Unified help and manual pages
1324 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1325 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1328 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1330 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1331 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1339 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1340 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1341 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1342 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1344 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1346 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1347 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1349 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1352 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1353 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1354 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1356 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1358 should be changed to:
1360 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1362 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1364 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1365 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1367 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1369 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1370 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1371 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1372 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1373 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1374 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1378 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1379 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1380 of Mailing List Archives.
1382 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1384 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1385 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1388 Show view archiving key binding changes
1390 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1391 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1392 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1393 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1394 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1397 Support text/calendar MIME type
1399 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1402 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1404 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1405 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1406 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1407 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1409 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1411 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1412 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1413 messages blue by default in the search view.
1417 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1418 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1425 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1428 Python bindings changes
1429 -----------------------
1431 Python 3.2 compatibility
1433 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1435 Added missing unicode conversions
1437 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1438 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1439 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1444 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1446 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1447 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1448 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1449 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1450 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1452 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1453 ===========================
1458 Fix error handling in python bindings
1460 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1461 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1462 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1463 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1465 Quote MML tags in replies
1467 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1468 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1469 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1470 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1471 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1472 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1473 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1474 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1476 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1477 =========================
1479 Command-Line Interface
1480 ----------------------
1484 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1485 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1486 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1487 importing new messages into the database.
1489 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1491 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1492 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1493 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1498 Automatic tag query optimization
1500 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1501 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1502 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1504 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1506 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1507 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1508 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1513 Reduction of memory leaks
1515 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1516 and fixed in this release.
1523 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1524 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1525 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1528 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1530 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1531 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1532 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1535 Improvements in saved search management
1537 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1538 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1539 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1541 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1543 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1544 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1545 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1547 New face for crypto parts headers
1549 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1550 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1551 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1554 Use space as default thousands separator
1556 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1557 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1558 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1560 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1561 buttonized id: links
1563 New function notmuch-show-advance
1565 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1566 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1567 be bound to SPC with:
1569 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1571 Various performance improvements
1576 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1577 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1580 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1581 ===========================
1586 Fix crash in python bindings
1588 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1589 for some, but not all users.
1591 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1592 ===========================
1597 Fix `--help` argument
1599 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1600 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1601 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1603 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1604 =========================
1606 New build and testing features
1607 ------------------------------
1609 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1610 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1611 prerequisites is improved.
1613 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1615 New command-line features
1616 -------------------------
1618 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1620 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1621 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1624 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1626 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1627 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1628 favour of using stdout.
1630 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1632 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1633 limit the number of results shown.
1635 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1637 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1638 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1641 New emacs UI features
1642 ---------------------
1644 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1646 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1647 starting with "tag:".
1649 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1651 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1652 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1654 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1656 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1658 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1660 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1661 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1666 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1668 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1670 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1671 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1672 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1673 requires a database rebuild:
1675 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1676 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1678 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1680 New collection of add-on tools
1681 ------------------------------
1683 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1684 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1685 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1688 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1690 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1691 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1692 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1694 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1695 ========================
1697 New, general features
1698 ---------------------
1700 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1702 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1703 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1704 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1705 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1706 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1713 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1714 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1716 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1720 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1721 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1722 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1725 Python bindings changes
1726 -----------------------
1728 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1730 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1731 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1732 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1733 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1734 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1735 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1737 Ruby bindings changes
1738 ---------------------
1740 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1741 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1742 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1743 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1748 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1750 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1751 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1753 Reply formatting cleanup
1754 ------------------------
1756 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1757 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1759 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1760 ========================
1762 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1764 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1765 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1766 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1767 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1770 Improved Build system portability
1772 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1773 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1774 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1776 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1778 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1780 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1782 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1783 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1784 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1786 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1787 ========================
1789 Vim interface improvements
1790 --------------------------
1792 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1794 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1795 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1796 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1797 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1798 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1800 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1802 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1803 * fix compose temp file name
1805 Python Bindings changes
1806 -----------------------
1808 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1810 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1811 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1813 Build-System improvements
1814 -------------------------
1816 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1818 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1821 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1822 ==========================
1827 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1829 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1830 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1832 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1833 =======================
1835 New, general features
1836 ---------------------
1838 Folder-based searching
1840 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1841 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1842 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1846 For example, one might use things such as:
1852 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1853 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1855 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1856 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1857 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1858 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1860 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1861 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1862 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1865 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1866 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1868 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1870 Support for PGP/MIME
1872 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1873 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1874 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1876 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1878 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1879 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1881 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1882 notmuch will receive these tags.
1884 New command-line features
1885 -------------------------
1887 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1889 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1890 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1892 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1894 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1895 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1896 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1898 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1900 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1901 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1902 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1903 which parts a signature part applies).
1905 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1907 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1908 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1909 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1910 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1911 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1914 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1916 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1917 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1918 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1919 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1920 by translating it internally to the new call.
1922 Performance improvements
1923 ------------------------
1925 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1927 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1928 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1929 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1931 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1932 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1934 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1936 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1937 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1938 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1940 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1941 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1942 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1943 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1945 Faster initial indexing
1947 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1948 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1949 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1951 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1953 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1954 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1955 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1956 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1958 New emacs-interface features
1959 ----------------------------
1961 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1963 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1964 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1965 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1966 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1967 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1968 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1970 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1972 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1973 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1974 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1975 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1977 User-selectable From address
1979 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1980 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1981 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1982 will prompt for the from address to use.
1984 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1985 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1986 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1988 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1989 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1990 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1993 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1995 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1996 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1998 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2000 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2002 ----- Original Message -----
2004 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2005 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2006 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2007 citations work much like conventional citations.
2009 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2011 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2012 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2013 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2014 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2015 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2017 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2018 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2020 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2022 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2023 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2024 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2026 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2028 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2029 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2030 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2031 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2032 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2034 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2036 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2039 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2041 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2043 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2045 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2048 Vim interface improvements
2049 --------------------------
2051 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2053 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2054 * Implementing archive in show view
2055 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2056 * Add delete commands
2059 Bindings improvements
2060 ---------------------
2062 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2064 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2065 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2067 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2069 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2073 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2074 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2075 `list(Messages)` works now
2076 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2078 These allow, for example:
2080 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2082 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2084 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2090 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2092 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2095 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2097 New build-system features
2098 -------------------------
2100 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2102 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2103 the configure script from some other directory:
2110 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2112 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2113 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2114 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2115 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2116 manual invocation of configure.
2118 New test-suite feature
2119 ----------------------
2121 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2123 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2124 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2125 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2126 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2127 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2130 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2132 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2133 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2134 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2135 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2136 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2137 are updated to take advantage of this.
2139 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2141 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2142 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2143 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2144 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2150 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2152 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2153 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2154 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2156 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2158 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2160 to:user@elsewhere.com
2162 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2164 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2166 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2168 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2169 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2170 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2173 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2174 from the Received headers in some cases
2176 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2177 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2179 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2181 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2183 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2185 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2186 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2187 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2189 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2190 -------------------------
2192 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2194 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2195 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2196 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2198 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2200 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2201 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2202 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2205 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2207 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2208 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2209 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2210 fixed to avoid this bug.
2212 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2214 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2215 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2217 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2218 ========================
2220 New, general features
2221 ---------------------
2223 Maildir-flag synchronization
2225 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2226 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2235 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2237 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2238 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2239 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2240 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2242 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2243 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2244 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2245 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2248 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2250 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2251 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2252 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2254 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2255 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2257 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2258 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2260 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2261 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2262 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2264 New library features
2265 --------------------
2267 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2269 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2270 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2271 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2272 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2274 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2275 message with the new function:
2277 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2279 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2280 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2281 over all available filenames for a given message.
2283 New command-line features
2284 -------------------------
2286 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2288 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2289 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2290 access to the mail store itself.
2292 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2293 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2294 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2295 name of a script containing:
2297 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2299 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2300 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2306 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2308 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2310 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2312 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2313 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2314 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2315 now produces nothing).
2317 Emacs interface improvements
2318 ----------------------------
2320 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2322 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2324 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2326 Display current thread subject in a header line
2328 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2330 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2332 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2333 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2334 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2335 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2336 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2337 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2338 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2340 Vim interface improvements
2341 --------------------------
2343 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2345 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2346 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2352 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2354 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2355 ========================
2357 New command-line features
2358 -------------------------
2360 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2362 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2363 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2364 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2366 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2367 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2368 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2369 scripts. For example:
2371 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2372 <operations-on> "$file"
2375 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2377 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2378 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2379 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2380 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2381 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2382 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2384 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2386 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2387 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2388 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2389 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2391 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2393 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2394 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2395 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2396 default rather than Bcc.
2398 New library features
2399 --------------------
2401 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2403 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2404 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2409 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2411 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2412 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2413 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2414 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2415 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2416 notmuch customize interface.
2418 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2420 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2421 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2422 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2423 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2425 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2427 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2428 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2429 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2430 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2432 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2434 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2435 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2436 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2437 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2438 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2439 notmuch customize interface.
2441 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2443 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2444 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2445 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2446 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2447 notmuch customize interface.
2449 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2451 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2452 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2453 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2454 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2457 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2459 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2460 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2461 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2464 New build-system features
2465 -------------------------
2467 Various portability fixes have been applied
2469 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2470 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2471 more portable than ever before.
2473 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2475 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2476 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2477 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2479 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2480 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2481 automatically run ldconfig.
2483 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2484 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2485 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2487 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2488 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2489 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2490 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2492 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2494 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2495 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2496 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2497 used in the resulting Makefile.
2499 New test-suite features
2500 -----------------------
2502 New modularization of test suite
2504 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2505 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2506 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2507 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2508 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2509 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2510 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2511 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2513 New testing of emacs interface
2515 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2516 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2517 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2518 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2519 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2520 database via the FCC setting.
2525 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2527 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2528 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2529 persistent error of the form:
2531 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2533 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2534 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2536 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2538 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2539 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2540 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2542 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2544 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2545 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2546 parsing the notmuch results).
2548 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2550 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2553 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2554 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2555 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2560 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2562 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2563 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2564 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2565 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2566 the emacs interface.
2568 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2570 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2571 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2572 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2574 Python-binding fixes
2575 --------------------
2577 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2579 Debian-specific fixes
2580 ---------------------
2582 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2584 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2585 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2586 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2589 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2590 ==========================
2595 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2597 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2598 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2599 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2600 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2602 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2604 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2605 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2606 want notmuch to crash.
2611 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2613 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2614 directory does not exist
2619 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2621 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2622 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2624 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2625 ========================
2627 New command-line features
2628 -------------------------
2630 User-configurable tags for new messages
2632 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2633 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2634 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2635 to specify this value.
2637 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2639 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2640 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2641 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2643 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2645 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2646 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2648 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2650 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2651 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2652 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2653 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2654 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2657 Indication of author names that match a search
2659 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2660 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2661 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2662 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2663 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2664 messages in the thread are listed first.
2666 New: Python bindings
2667 --------------------
2669 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2670 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2671 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2672 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2674 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2675 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2676 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2679 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2680 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2681 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2683 Emacs interface improvements
2684 ----------------------------
2686 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2688 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2689 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2690 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2691 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2692 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2693 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2694 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2695 but without any of the disadvantages).
2697 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2698 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2699 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2702 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2703 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2704 instead running something like:
2706 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2708 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2709 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2710 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2713 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2715 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2716 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2717 tweaked by the user.
2719 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2720 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2721 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2724 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2725 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2726 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2729 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2731 This support currently relies on an external program,
2732 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2733 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2734 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2735 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2736 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2739 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2740 notmuch) is available via:
2742 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2744 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2745 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2746 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2748 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2750 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2751 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2752 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2753 making this automatic in a future release.
2755 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2757 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2758 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2759 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2760 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2761 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2762 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2765 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2767 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2768 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2769 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2771 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2773 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2774 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2775 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2777 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2778 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2779 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2780 other representation.
2782 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2783 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2786 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2788 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2789 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2790 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2792 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2793 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2794 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2796 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2798 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2799 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2800 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2801 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2802 to display the search result.
2804 More flexible handling of header visibility
2806 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2807 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2808 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2809 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2810 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2811 with the 'h' keybinding.
2813 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2814 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2815 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2817 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2819 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2821 Customizable formatting of search results
2823 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2824 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2825 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2827 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2829 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2831 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2836 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2838 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2839 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2840 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2841 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2847 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2849 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2850 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2852 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2854 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2855 accept are now all accepted.
2860 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2862 Better display of output from failed tests
2864 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2865 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2867 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2868 ========================
2870 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2871 detailed release notes this time!
2873 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2874 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2876 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2877 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2878 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2879 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2886 Better guessing of From: header
2888 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2889 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2890 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2891 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2892 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2895 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2897 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2898 guaranteed to match all messages.
2900 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2902 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2903 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2904 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2905 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2906 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2909 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2912 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2913 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2914 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2915 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2920 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2922 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2923 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2924 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2925 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2927 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2929 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2931 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2932 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2933 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2935 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2937 Previously, the user might see:
2939 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2943 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2945 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2946 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2947 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2948 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2950 Emacs client features
2951 ---------------------
2953 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2955 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2956 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2957 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2958 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2959 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2961 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2964 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2965 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2966 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2967 search with the '*' binding.
2969 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2971 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2972 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2975 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2977 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2978 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2979 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2981 Build-system features
2982 ---------------------
2984 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2986 Add support to configure for many standard options
2988 We include actual support for:
2990 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2992 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2994 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2995 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2997 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2998 separate "make install-emacs"
3000 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3002 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3003 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3004 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3006 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3009 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3010 ========================
3012 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3014 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3015 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3017 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3018 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3019 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3020 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3021 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3022 tags from messages in a thread.
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