1 Notmuch 0.31 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
8 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
9 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
11 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
13 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
18 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
19 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
20 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
26 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
27 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
28 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
29 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
31 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
32 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
33 non-status providing versions.
35 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
36 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
38 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
39 promised in the documentation.
44 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
45 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
46 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
51 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
57 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
59 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
60 =========================
65 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
66 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
67 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
70 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
76 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
77 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
78 notmuch-properties(7)).
83 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
84 has protected headers (see
85 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
86 notmuch-properties(7)).
91 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
93 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
94 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
100 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
103 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
104 ===========================
109 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
111 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
116 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
118 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
119 ===========================
124 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
125 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
127 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
128 ===========================
133 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
135 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
136 =========================
141 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
142 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
145 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
146 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
147 the set of headers to be indexed.
149 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
152 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
153 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
154 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
157 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
158 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
159 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
161 Command Line Interface
162 ----------------------
164 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
167 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
169 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
170 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
171 more details about what is included there. This status includes
172 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
177 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
178 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
180 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
182 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
184 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
186 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
188 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
191 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
193 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
194 and may be removed in a future release.
196 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
202 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
204 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
205 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
210 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
211 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
212 cryptography support.
217 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
218 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
219 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
221 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
222 ===========================
224 Command line interface
225 ----------------------
227 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
228 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
230 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
231 ===========================
236 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
237 by message properties.
242 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
244 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
245 ===========================
250 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
255 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
256 now needed to build this documentation.
258 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
259 ===========================
264 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
265 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
267 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
268 =========================
275 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
276 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
277 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
278 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
279 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
282 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
284 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
285 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
286 correct encoding for such messages.
288 Command Line Interface
289 ----------------------
291 Support relative database paths
293 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
294 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
295 to $HOME of the invoking user.
300 Improve stderr handling
302 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
303 needed on e.g. macOS.
305 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
307 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
312 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
313 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
319 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
320 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
326 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
327 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
330 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
331 =========================
336 Add support for thread:{} queries
338 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
339 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
340 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
342 Command Line Interface
343 ----------------------
345 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
347 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
349 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
351 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
352 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
353 does not have to be available during message receipt.
358 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
364 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
365 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
367 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
368 ===========================
373 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
375 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
376 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
377 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
379 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
381 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
382 related abort in `notmuch show`.
384 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
385 ===========================
390 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
391 better late than never.
394 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
395 =========================
397 Command Line Interface
398 ----------------------
400 Support for re-indexing existing messages
402 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
403 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
404 change the way specific messages are indexed.
406 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
407 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
408 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
410 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
412 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
414 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
416 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
417 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
418 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
419 the setting of `new.tags`.
421 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
423 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
425 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
427 This inserts into the top level folder.
429 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
431 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
433 New option --output=address for notmuch address
435 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
437 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
439 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
440 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
441 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
443 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
448 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
450 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
451 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
452 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
453 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
454 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
455 config set index.decrypt true".
457 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
458 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
459 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
460 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
461 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
462 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
463 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
464 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
466 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
467 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
468 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
469 this feature without considering the security of your index.
474 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
476 Use make-process when available
478 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
479 notmuch command without using temporary files.
484 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
486 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
487 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
488 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
489 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
491 New functions to count files
493 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
494 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
496 New function to remove properties
498 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
499 drop all properties with a common pattern:
500 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
502 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
504 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
505 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
506 possibility of NULL was not documented.
508 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
510 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
511 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
512 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
513 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
514 operator may decide to change from message to message.
521 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
522 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
523 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
529 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
531 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
532 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
534 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
536 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
538 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
540 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
545 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
546 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
548 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
549 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
550 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
551 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
552 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
553 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
558 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
560 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
561 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
562 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
563 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
565 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
566 ===========================
571 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
572 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
575 Command Line Interface
576 ----------------------
578 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
579 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
582 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
583 ===========================
585 Command Line Interface
586 ----------------------
588 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
589 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
594 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
597 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
598 ===========================
603 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
606 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
607 =========================
612 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
614 Skip HTML tags when indexing
616 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
618 Command Line Interface
619 ----------------------
621 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
623 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
628 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
630 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
631 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
634 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
639 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
641 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
642 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
644 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
646 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
647 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
650 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
652 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
654 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
656 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
657 ===========================
659 Command Line Interface
660 ----------------------
662 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
667 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
669 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
670 ===========================
675 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
677 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
678 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
681 Command Line Interface
682 ----------------------
684 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
686 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
688 Fix bug in dump header
690 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
691 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
692 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
697 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
699 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
700 =========================
705 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
707 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
710 Command Line Interface
711 ----------------------
713 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
715 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
716 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
717 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
719 New default output format to 3
721 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
722 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
723 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
724 default format changes.
729 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
731 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
732 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
733 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
734 or tree view to resume.
736 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
737 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
738 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
741 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
742 they were when you postponed in the final message.
746 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
747 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
748 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
749 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
750 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
754 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
755 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
756 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
757 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
758 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
759 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
763 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
764 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
766 Stop display of `application/*` parts
768 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
769 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
770 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
771 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
772 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
773 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
774 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
775 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
778 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
780 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
781 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
782 only tagged the current thread.)
784 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
786 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
787 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
788 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
790 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
792 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
793 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
794 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
795 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
796 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
797 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
798 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
800 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
802 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
803 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
804 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
809 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
811 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
814 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
816 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
819 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
820 ===========================
825 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
827 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
828 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
829 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
832 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
833 ===========================
835 Command Line Interface
836 ----------------------
838 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
843 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
845 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
846 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
847 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
849 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
850 ===========================
855 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
856 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
858 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
859 ===========================
861 Command Line Interface
862 ----------------------
864 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
866 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
867 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
868 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
873 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
875 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
876 ===========================
878 Command Line Interface
879 ----------------------
881 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
886 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
888 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
889 ===========================
894 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
896 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
897 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
898 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
900 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
902 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
904 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
905 ===========================
910 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
912 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
917 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
919 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
920 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
921 the original colours.
923 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
924 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
926 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
928 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
929 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
930 bug, and hence the test.
932 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
933 =========================
935 General (Xapian 1.4+)
936 ---------------------
938 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
940 Support for single argument date: queries
942 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
944 Support for blocking opens
946 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
947 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
949 Support for named queries
951 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
952 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
953 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
960 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
961 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
962 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
963 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
965 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
967 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
972 Support for compile time options
974 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
975 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
978 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
980 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
981 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
982 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
983 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
984 scripts to ignore it.
989 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
991 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
992 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
993 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
995 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
996 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
997 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
998 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
999 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1000 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1001 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1003 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1004 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1007 Make internal address completion customizable
1009 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1010 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1011 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1012 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1015 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1017 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1018 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1019 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1020 completion for the current buffer.
1022 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1023 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1024 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1028 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1029 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1030 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1031 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1032 will be added instead.
1034 Face customization is easier
1036 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1037 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1038 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1039 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1041 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1046 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1051 Go bindings moved to contrib
1053 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1055 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1057 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1058 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1060 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1062 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1063 ===========================
1070 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1071 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1073 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1075 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1077 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1078 ===========================
1083 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1085 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1090 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1095 Use `env` to locate perl.
1100 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1102 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1104 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1106 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1108 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1109 =========================
1116 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1117 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1119 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1121 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1122 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1123 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1128 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1129 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1130 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1132 Command Line Interface
1133 ----------------------
1135 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1137 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1142 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1147 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1149 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1150 parts are now included in replies.
1152 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1153 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1154 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1155 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1157 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1159 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1161 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1163 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1164 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1165 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1166 forwards only the current message.
1168 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1170 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1171 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1172 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1173 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1174 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1175 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1176 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1177 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1180 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1181 longer generate empty buffers
1183 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1184 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1185 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1186 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1187 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1189 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1191 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1194 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1196 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1199 Address completion improvements
1201 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1202 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1203 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1204 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1205 interactive address completion.
1207 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1209 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1210 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1211 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1216 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1217 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1218 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1224 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1225 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1226 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1227 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1228 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1229 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1231 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1232 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1233 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1234 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1235 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1236 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1238 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1239 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1241 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1242 =========================
1247 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1250 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1252 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1253 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1254 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1256 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1257 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1259 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1260 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1261 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1263 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1265 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1266 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1267 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1268 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1269 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1270 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1275 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1276 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1279 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1280 option to configure.
1282 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1284 Command Line Interface
1285 ----------------------
1287 Database revision tracking
1289 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1290 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1291 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1292 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1294 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1296 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1297 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1298 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1299 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1300 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1301 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1302 manual page for further information.
1307 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1309 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1310 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1312 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1314 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1315 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1316 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1318 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1320 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1322 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1323 customization as well.
1325 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1327 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1329 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1331 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1333 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1334 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1335 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1336 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1338 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1340 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1341 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1342 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1343 this variable to 10000.
1348 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1349 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1351 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1353 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1354 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1355 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1356 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1357 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1358 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1359 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1360 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1361 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1364 Database revision tracking
1366 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1367 query parser and the new function
1368 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1370 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1372 Deprecated functions
1374 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1375 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1376 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1377 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1382 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1384 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1385 ===========================
1390 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1392 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1393 ===========================
1398 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1400 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1401 =========================
1403 Command-Line Interface
1404 ----------------------
1406 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1408 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1409 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1410 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1412 Path to gpg is now configurable
1414 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1415 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1420 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1422 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1427 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1432 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1437 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1439 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1440 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1442 New error logging facility
1444 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1445 output formerly printed to stderr.
1447 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1449 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1451 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1453 Fix for rounding of seconds
1458 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1460 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1461 documentation has been removed.
1463 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1465 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1466 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1471 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1472 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1473 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1478 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1479 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1480 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1481 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1482 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1483 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1486 git checkout config origin/config
1488 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1490 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1491 =========================
1496 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1497 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1498 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1499 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1500 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1501 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1502 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1504 Command-Line Interface
1505 ----------------------
1507 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1509 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1510 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1511 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1512 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1513 script callers should still check the return value.
1515 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1517 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1518 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1519 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1520 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1521 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1522 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1523 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1525 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1527 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1528 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1529 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1531 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1533 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1534 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1535 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1536 currently unmaintained.
1538 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1540 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1541 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1542 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1543 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1545 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1547 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1548 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1549 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1550 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1551 count of duplicate addresses.
1556 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1558 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1559 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1560 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1563 Improved handling of the unread tag
1565 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1566 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1567 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1568 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1569 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1570 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1571 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1573 Expanded default saved search settings
1575 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1576 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1578 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1580 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1581 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1582 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1584 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1586 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1587 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1588 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1589 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1590 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1591 the variable for details.
1596 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1598 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1599 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1600 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1601 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1603 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1605 Previously, library users were required to call
1606 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1607 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1608 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1609 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1610 too out of date for that API.
1612 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1614 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1615 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1616 atomic section will be aborted.
1618 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1619 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1621 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1623 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1624 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1625 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1626 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1627 messages into the same thread.
1632 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1633 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1634 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1635 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1636 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1637 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1642 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1643 from the config file. Use something like:
1647 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1648 "footer": "</body></html>",
1657 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1662 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1663 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1664 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1666 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1667 ===========================
1672 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1674 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1676 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1678 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1679 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1681 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1683 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1686 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1687 ===========================
1689 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1694 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1696 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1698 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1700 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1702 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1708 Use --quick when starting emacs
1710 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1712 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1714 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1716 Command-Line Interface
1717 ----------------------
1719 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1720 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1725 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1727 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1728 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1730 Fix for phrase indexing
1732 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1733 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1734 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1739 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1741 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1742 unintentionally removed.
1744 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1745 =========================
1750 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1751 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1752 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1753 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1754 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1755 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1756 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1757 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1758 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1764 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1766 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1767 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1768 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1769 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1770 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1771 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1772 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1773 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1775 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1777 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1778 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1779 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1780 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1783 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1785 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1786 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1787 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1788 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1789 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1790 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1791 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1796 Notmuch database upgrade
1798 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1799 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1800 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1801 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1802 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1803 released version of Notmuch before now.
1805 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1807 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1808 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1809 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1810 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1812 Message header parsing changes
1814 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1815 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1816 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1817 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1818 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1819 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1821 Command-Line Interface
1822 ----------------------
1824 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1826 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1828 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1830 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1832 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1834 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1835 user does not want it.
1837 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1839 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1840 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1841 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1842 support formatted output.
1844 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1846 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1847 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1848 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1856 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1857 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1858 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1859 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1860 `~/.emacs` with these.
1862 Changed format for saved searches
1864 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1865 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1866 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1867 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1870 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1871 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1872 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1873 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1875 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1876 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1877 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1879 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1880 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1881 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1882 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1883 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1885 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1887 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1888 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1889 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1891 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1893 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1894 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1895 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1896 message had been unread).
1898 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1899 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1900 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1901 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1903 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1904 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1905 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1907 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1908 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1909 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1910 to tags already present.
1914 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1915 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1916 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1917 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1918 these differ from each other.
1919 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1921 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1923 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1924 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1925 for these Emacs versions.
1927 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1929 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1930 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1932 Bug fixes for sender identities
1934 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1935 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1936 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1938 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1940 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1941 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1942 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1943 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1945 Reply pushes mark before signature
1947 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1948 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1949 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1951 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1953 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1954 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1960 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1961 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1963 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1964 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1965 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1966 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1968 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1969 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1970 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1971 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1972 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1974 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1976 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1977 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1979 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1980 =========================
1982 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1983 ---------------------------------------
1985 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1986 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1987 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1988 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1989 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1990 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1991 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1995 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1996 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1998 Command-Line Interface
1999 ----------------------
2001 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2003 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2004 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2005 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2006 print for each message.
2008 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2009 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2010 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2011 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2013 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2015 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2016 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2017 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2019 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2021 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2022 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2023 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2024 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2026 `notmuch compact` command
2028 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2029 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2030 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2031 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2032 move the compacted database into place.
2037 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2039 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2040 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2041 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2042 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2043 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2044 and multiple threads.
2046 Using `notmuch-tree`
2048 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2050 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2051 search, show and tree mode itself)
2053 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2056 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2057 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2059 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2061 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2062 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2063 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2064 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2065 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2066 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2067 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2069 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2071 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2072 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2073 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2074 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2075 thread when the search was performed.
2077 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2079 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2080 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2081 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2083 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2085 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2086 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2089 Built-in help improvements
2091 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2092 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2093 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2095 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2097 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2098 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2099 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2101 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2103 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2104 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2106 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2108 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2109 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2110 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2111 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2113 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2115 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2116 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2117 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2118 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2120 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2122 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2123 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2124 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2126 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2128 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2129 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2130 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2132 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2134 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2135 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2136 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2137 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2138 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2140 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2142 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2143 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2144 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2145 the body part of the message.
2150 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2151 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2152 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2154 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2155 =========================
2157 Command-Line Interface
2158 ----------------------
2160 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2162 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2163 folder and notmuch index.
2165 `notmuch count --batch` option
2167 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2168 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2170 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2172 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2173 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2174 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2177 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2179 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2180 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2181 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2182 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2183 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2186 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2188 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2189 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2191 Top level option to specify configuration file
2193 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2194 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2196 Bash command-line completion
2198 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2199 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2200 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2201 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2202 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2203 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2204 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2205 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2206 bash-completion package.
2208 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2213 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2215 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2216 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2217 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2218 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2219 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2220 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2221 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2222 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2224 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2226 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2227 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2228 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2230 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2232 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2233 previous thread in the search results.
2235 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2237 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2238 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2240 Faster search and show
2242 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2243 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2244 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2245 threads should show faster.
2249 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2250 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2251 in question was now removed from this release.
2256 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2257 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2262 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2264 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2265 ===========================
2270 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2272 Internal test framework changes
2273 -------------------------------
2275 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2276 being unimplemented.
2278 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2279 ===========================
2281 Internal test framework changes
2282 -------------------------------
2284 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2285 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2287 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2288 =========================
2293 Date range search support
2295 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2296 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2297 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2298 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2299 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2302 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2304 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2305 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2306 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2307 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2308 but may be removed in a future release.
2310 Command-Line Interface
2311 ----------------------
2313 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2315 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2316 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2318 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2320 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2321 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2322 officially deprecated.
2324 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2326 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2327 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2328 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2330 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2332 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2333 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2336 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2337 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2338 dump/restore format.
2340 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2342 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2343 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2344 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2346 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2348 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2349 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2350 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2352 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2354 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2355 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2356 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2357 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2362 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2364 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2365 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2366 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2367 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2369 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2371 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2372 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2373 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2374 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2375 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2376 the behavior of this, see
2377 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2378 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2380 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2381 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2382 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2384 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2386 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2387 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2390 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2392 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2393 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2394 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2395 simply displayed in place of the message.
2397 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2399 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2400 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2402 Improved text/calendar content handling
2404 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2405 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2406 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2407 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2409 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2411 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2412 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2413 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2414 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2416 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2418 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2419 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2420 for HTML email containing images.
2422 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2424 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2426 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2428 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2431 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2433 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2434 the point where it was.
2436 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2438 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2439 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2440 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2441 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2442 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2444 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2446 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2447 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2448 thread instead of the message id.
2450 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2451 -----------------------------
2453 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2454 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2455 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2456 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2457 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2458 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2459 further details and installation.
2464 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2466 Internal test framework changes
2467 -------------------------------
2469 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2471 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2472 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2473 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2474 can result in buggy behavior.
2476 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2477 =========================
2482 Maildir tag synchronization
2484 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2485 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2486 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2487 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2488 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2489 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2492 Command-Line Interface
2493 ----------------------
2495 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2496 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2497 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2498 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2499 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2505 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2507 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2509 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2510 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2511 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2513 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2515 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2516 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2517 span multiple lines.
2519 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2521 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2522 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2523 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2524 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2525 inside the result or message.
2527 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2529 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2530 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2532 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2533 user-specified formatting
2535 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2536 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2537 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2538 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2539 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2541 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2542 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2544 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2545 ===========================
2550 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2551 compilation error for this contrib package.
2553 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2554 ===========================
2559 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2561 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2562 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2563 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2564 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2566 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2567 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2570 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2571 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2572 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2573 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2576 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2578 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2581 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2582 =========================
2584 Command-Line Interface
2585 ----------------------
2589 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2590 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2591 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2592 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2594 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2595 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2596 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2597 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2601 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2602 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2604 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2605 tag in your query, for example:
2607 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2609 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2610 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2612 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2613 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2615 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2617 Raw show format changes
2619 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2620 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2621 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2622 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2623 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2624 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2625 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2626 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2628 Listing configuration items
2630 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2636 Changes to tagging interface
2638 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2639 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2640 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2641 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2642 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2643 for more information.
2645 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2646 may need to update in custom configurations.
2648 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2650 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2651 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2652 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2653 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2656 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2657 -----------------------------
2659 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2660 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2661 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2662 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2663 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2664 contrib/ from now on.
2669 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2670 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2672 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2673 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2675 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2676 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2677 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2679 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2680 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2682 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2683 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2684 returning the new database object or directory object.
2691 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2692 compatible with go 1.
2694 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2695 =========================
2697 Command-Line Interface
2698 ----------------------
2702 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2703 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2704 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2705 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2707 Mail store folder/file ignore
2709 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2710 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2711 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2713 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2714 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2716 Unified help and manual pages
2718 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2719 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2722 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2724 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2725 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2733 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2734 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2735 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2736 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2738 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2740 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2741 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2743 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2746 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2747 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2748 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2750 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2752 should be changed to:
2754 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2756 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2758 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2759 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2761 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2763 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2764 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2765 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2766 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2767 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2768 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2772 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2773 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2774 of Mailing List Archives.
2776 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2778 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2779 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2782 Show view archiving key binding changes
2784 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2785 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2786 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2787 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2788 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2791 Support text/calendar MIME type
2793 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2796 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2798 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2799 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2800 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2801 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2803 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2805 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2806 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2807 messages blue by default in the search view.
2811 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2812 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2819 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2822 Python bindings changes
2823 -----------------------
2825 Python 3.2 compatibility
2827 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2829 Added missing unicode conversions
2831 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2832 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2833 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2838 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2840 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2841 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2842 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2843 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2844 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2846 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2847 ===========================
2852 Fix error handling in python bindings
2854 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2855 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2856 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2857 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2859 Quote MML tags in replies
2861 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2862 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2863 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2864 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2865 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2866 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2867 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2868 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2870 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2871 =========================
2873 Command-Line Interface
2874 ----------------------
2878 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2879 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2880 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2881 importing new messages into the database.
2883 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2885 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2886 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2887 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2892 Automatic tag query optimization
2894 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2895 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2896 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2898 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2900 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2901 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2902 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2907 Reduction of memory leaks
2909 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2910 and fixed in this release.
2917 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2918 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2919 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2922 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2924 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2925 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2926 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2929 Improvements in saved search management
2931 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2932 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2933 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2935 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2937 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2938 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2939 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2941 New face for crypto parts headers
2943 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2944 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2945 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2948 Use space as default thousands separator
2950 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2951 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2952 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2954 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2955 buttonized id: links
2957 New function notmuch-show-advance
2959 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2960 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2961 be bound to SPC with:
2963 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2965 Various performance improvements
2970 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2971 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2974 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2975 ===========================
2980 Fix crash in python bindings
2982 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2983 for some, but not all users.
2985 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2986 ===========================
2991 Fix `--help` argument
2993 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2994 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2995 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2997 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2998 =========================
3000 New build and testing features
3001 ------------------------------
3003 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3004 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3005 prerequisites is improved.
3007 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3009 New command-line features
3010 -------------------------
3012 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3014 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3015 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3018 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3020 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3021 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3022 favour of using stdout.
3024 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3026 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3027 limit the number of results shown.
3029 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3031 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3032 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3035 New emacs UI features
3036 ---------------------
3038 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3040 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3041 starting with "tag:".
3043 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3045 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3046 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3048 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3050 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3052 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3054 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3055 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3060 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3062 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3064 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3065 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3066 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3067 requires a database rebuild:
3069 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3070 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3072 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3074 New collection of add-on tools
3075 ------------------------------
3077 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3078 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3079 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3082 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3084 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3085 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3086 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3088 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3089 ========================
3091 New, general features
3092 ---------------------
3094 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3096 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3097 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3098 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3099 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3100 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3107 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3108 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3110 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3114 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3115 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3116 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3119 Python bindings changes
3120 -----------------------
3122 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3124 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3125 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3126 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3127 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3128 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3129 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3131 Ruby bindings changes
3132 ---------------------
3134 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3135 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3136 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3137 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3142 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3144 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3145 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3147 Reply formatting cleanup
3148 ------------------------
3150 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3151 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3153 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3154 ========================
3156 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3158 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3159 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3160 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3161 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3164 Improved Build system portability
3166 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3167 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3168 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3170 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3172 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3174 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3176 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3177 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3178 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3180 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3181 ========================
3183 Vim interface improvements
3184 --------------------------
3186 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3188 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3189 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3190 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3191 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3192 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3194 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3196 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3197 * fix compose temp file name
3199 Python Bindings changes
3200 -----------------------
3202 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3204 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3205 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3207 Build-System improvements
3208 -------------------------
3210 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3212 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3215 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3216 ==========================
3221 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3223 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3224 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3226 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3227 =======================
3229 New, general features
3230 ---------------------
3232 Folder-based searching
3234 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3235 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3236 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3240 For example, one might use things such as:
3246 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3247 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3249 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3250 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3251 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3252 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3254 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3255 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3256 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3259 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3260 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3262 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3264 Support for PGP/MIME
3266 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3267 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3268 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3270 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3272 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3273 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3275 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3276 notmuch will receive these tags.
3278 New command-line features
3279 -------------------------
3281 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3283 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3284 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3286 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3288 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3289 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3290 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3292 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3294 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3295 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3296 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3297 which parts a signature part applies).
3299 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3301 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3302 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3303 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3304 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3305 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3308 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3310 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3311 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3312 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3313 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3314 by translating it internally to the new call.
3316 Performance improvements
3317 ------------------------
3319 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3321 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3322 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3323 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3325 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3326 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3328 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3330 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3331 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3332 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3334 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3335 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3336 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3337 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3339 Faster initial indexing
3341 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3342 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3343 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3345 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3347 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3348 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3349 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3350 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3352 New emacs-interface features
3353 ----------------------------
3355 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3357 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3358 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3359 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3360 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3361 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3362 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3364 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3366 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3367 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3368 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3369 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3371 User-selectable From address
3373 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3374 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3375 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3376 will prompt for the from address to use.
3378 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3379 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3380 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3382 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3383 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3384 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3387 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3389 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3390 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3392 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3394 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3396 ----- Original Message -----
3398 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3399 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3400 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3401 citations work much like conventional citations.
3403 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3405 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3406 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3407 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3408 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3409 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3411 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3412 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3414 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3416 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3417 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3418 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3420 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3422 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3423 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3424 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3425 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3426 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3428 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3430 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3433 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3435 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3437 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3439 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3442 Vim interface improvements
3443 --------------------------
3445 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3447 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3448 * Implementing archive in show view
3449 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3450 * Add delete commands
3453 Bindings improvements
3454 ---------------------
3456 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3458 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3459 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3461 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3463 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3467 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3468 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3469 `list(Messages)` works now
3470 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3472 These allow, for example:
3474 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3476 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3478 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3484 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3486 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3489 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3491 New build-system features
3492 -------------------------
3494 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3496 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3497 the configure script from some other directory:
3504 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3506 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3507 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3508 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3509 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3510 manual invocation of configure.
3512 New test-suite feature
3513 ----------------------
3515 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3517 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3518 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3519 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3520 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3521 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3524 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3526 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3527 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3528 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3529 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3530 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3531 are updated to take advantage of this.
3533 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3535 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3536 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3537 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3538 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3544 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3546 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3547 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3548 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3550 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3552 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3554 to:user@elsewhere.com
3556 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3558 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3560 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3562 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3563 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3564 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3567 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3568 from the Received headers in some cases
3570 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3571 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3573 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3575 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3577 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3579 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3580 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3581 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3583 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3584 -------------------------
3586 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3588 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3589 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3590 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3592 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3594 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3595 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3596 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3599 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3601 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3602 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3603 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3604 fixed to avoid this bug.
3606 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3608 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3609 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3611 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3612 ========================
3614 New, general features
3615 ---------------------
3617 Maildir-flag synchronization
3619 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3620 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3629 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3631 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3632 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3633 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3634 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3636 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3637 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3638 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3639 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3642 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3644 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3645 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3646 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3648 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3649 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3651 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3652 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3654 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3655 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3656 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3658 New library features
3659 --------------------
3661 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3663 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3664 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3665 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3666 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3668 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3669 message with the new function:
3671 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3673 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3674 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3675 over all available filenames for a given message.
3677 New command-line features
3678 -------------------------
3680 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3682 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3683 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3684 access to the mail store itself.
3686 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3687 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3688 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3689 name of a script containing:
3691 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3693 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3694 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3700 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3702 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3704 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3706 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3707 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3708 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3709 now produces nothing).
3711 Emacs interface improvements
3712 ----------------------------
3714 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3716 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3718 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3720 Display current thread subject in a header line
3722 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3724 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3726 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3727 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3728 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3729 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3730 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3731 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3732 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3734 Vim interface improvements
3735 --------------------------
3737 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3739 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3740 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3746 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3748 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3749 ========================
3751 New command-line features
3752 -------------------------
3754 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3756 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3757 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3758 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3760 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3761 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3762 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3763 scripts. For example:
3765 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3766 <operations-on> "$file"
3769 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3771 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3772 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3773 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3774 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3775 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3776 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3778 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3780 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3781 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3782 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3783 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3785 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3787 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3788 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3789 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3790 default rather than Bcc.
3792 New library features
3793 --------------------
3795 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3797 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3798 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3803 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3805 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3806 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3807 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3808 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3809 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3810 notmuch customize interface.
3812 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3814 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3815 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3816 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3817 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3819 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3821 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3822 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3823 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3824 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3826 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3828 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3829 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3830 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3831 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3832 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3833 notmuch customize interface.
3835 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3837 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3838 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3839 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3840 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3841 notmuch customize interface.
3843 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3845 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3846 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3847 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3848 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3851 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3853 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3854 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3855 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3858 New build-system features
3859 -------------------------
3861 Various portability fixes have been applied
3863 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3864 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3865 more portable than ever before.
3867 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3869 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3870 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3871 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3873 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3874 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3875 automatically run ldconfig.
3877 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3878 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3879 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3881 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3882 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3883 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3884 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3886 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3888 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3889 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3890 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3891 used in the resulting Makefile.
3893 New test-suite features
3894 -----------------------
3896 New modularization of test suite
3898 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3899 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3900 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3901 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3902 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3903 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3904 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3905 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3907 New testing of emacs interface
3909 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3910 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3911 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3912 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3913 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3914 database via the FCC setting.
3919 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3921 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3922 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3923 persistent error of the form:
3925 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3927 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3928 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3930 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3932 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3933 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3934 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3936 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3938 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3939 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3940 parsing the notmuch results).
3942 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3944 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3947 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3948 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3949 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3954 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3956 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3957 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3958 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3959 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3960 the emacs interface.
3962 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3964 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3965 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3966 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3968 Python-binding fixes
3969 --------------------
3971 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3973 Debian-specific fixes
3974 ---------------------
3976 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3978 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3979 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3980 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3983 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3984 ==========================
3989 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3991 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3992 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3993 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3994 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3996 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3998 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3999 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4000 want notmuch to crash.
4005 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4007 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4008 directory does not exist
4013 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4015 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4016 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4018 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4019 ========================
4021 New command-line features
4022 -------------------------
4024 User-configurable tags for new messages
4026 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4027 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4028 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4029 to specify this value.
4031 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4033 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4034 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4035 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4037 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4039 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4040 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4042 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4044 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4045 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4046 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4047 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4048 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4051 Indication of author names that match a search
4053 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4054 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4055 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4056 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4057 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4058 messages in the thread are listed first.
4060 New: Python bindings
4061 --------------------
4063 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4064 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4065 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4066 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4068 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4069 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4070 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4073 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4074 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4075 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4077 Emacs interface improvements
4078 ----------------------------
4080 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4082 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4083 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4084 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4085 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4086 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4087 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4088 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4089 but without any of the disadvantages).
4091 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4092 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4093 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4096 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4097 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4098 instead running something like:
4100 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4102 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4103 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4104 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4107 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4109 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4110 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4111 tweaked by the user.
4113 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4114 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4115 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4118 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4119 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4120 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4123 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4125 This support currently relies on an external program,
4126 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4127 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4128 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4129 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4130 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4133 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4134 notmuch) is available via:
4136 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4138 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4139 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4140 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4142 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4144 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4145 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4146 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4147 making this automatic in a future release.
4149 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4151 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4152 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4153 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4154 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4155 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4156 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4159 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4161 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4162 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4163 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4165 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4167 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4168 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4169 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4171 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4172 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4173 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4174 other representation.
4176 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4177 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4180 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4182 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4183 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4184 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4186 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4187 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4188 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4190 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4192 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4193 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4194 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4195 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4196 to display the search result.
4198 More flexible handling of header visibility
4200 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4201 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4202 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4203 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4204 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4205 with the 'h' keybinding.
4207 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4208 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4209 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4211 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4213 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4215 Customizable formatting of search results
4217 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4218 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4219 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4221 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4223 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4225 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4230 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4232 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4233 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4234 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4235 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4241 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4243 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4244 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4246 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4248 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4249 accept are now all accepted.
4254 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4256 Better display of output from failed tests
4258 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4259 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4261 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4262 ========================
4264 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4265 detailed release notes this time!
4267 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4268 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4270 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4271 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4272 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4273 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4280 Better guessing of From: header
4282 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4283 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4284 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4285 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4286 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4289 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4291 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4292 guaranteed to match all messages.
4294 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4296 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4297 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4298 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4299 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4300 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4303 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4306 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4307 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4308 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4309 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4314 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4316 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4317 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4318 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4319 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4321 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4323 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4325 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4326 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4327 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4329 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4331 Previously, the user might see:
4333 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4337 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4339 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4340 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4341 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4342 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4344 Emacs client features
4345 ---------------------
4347 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4349 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4350 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4351 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4352 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4353 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4355 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4358 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4359 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4360 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4361 search with the '*' binding.
4363 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4365 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4366 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4369 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4371 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4372 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4373 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4375 Build-system features
4376 ---------------------
4378 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4380 Add support to configure for many standard options
4382 We include actual support for:
4384 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4386 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4388 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4389 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4391 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4392 separate "make install-emacs"
4394 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4396 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4397 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4398 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4400 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4403 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4404 ========================
4406 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4408 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4409 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4411 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4412 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4413 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4414 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4415 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4416 tags from messages in a thread.
4423 indent-tabs-mode: nil