1 Notmuch 0.34 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
8 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
9 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
10 built_with.sexpr_queries` to check if notmuch is compiled with
11 s-expression query support.
13 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
14 ===========================
19 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
21 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
22 ===========================
27 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
28 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
31 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
32 =========================
37 Correct documentation about transactions.
39 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
40 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
42 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
47 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
53 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
54 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
55 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
57 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
59 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
61 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
63 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
65 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
67 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
70 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
75 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
76 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
77 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
78 split, following an old library API change.
83 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
88 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
90 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
92 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
93 ===========================
98 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
101 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
104 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
105 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
110 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
112 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
113 ===========================
118 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
124 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
129 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
134 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
139 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
140 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
142 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
143 ===========================
148 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
149 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
150 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
152 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
153 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
154 database in a pre-new hook.
156 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
157 default worked only in "notmuch config".
162 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
163 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
165 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
166 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
167 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
169 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
170 =========================
175 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
176 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
177 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
178 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
179 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
180 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
181 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
182 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
183 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
184 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
185 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
190 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
191 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
193 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
194 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
195 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
196 - `notmuch_config_get`
198 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
199 now exposed (and generalized).
201 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
202 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
203 session has been fixed.
205 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
206 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
211 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
212 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
214 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
215 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
220 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
221 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
222 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
223 when prompting for senders.
225 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
226 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
229 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
231 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
233 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
234 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
235 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
236 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
237 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
238 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
239 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
241 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
242 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
244 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
245 you should change it to:
246 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
248 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
249 ===========================
254 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
259 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
261 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
262 ===========================
267 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
272 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
277 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
279 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
280 ===========================
285 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
286 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
288 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
289 ===========================
294 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
299 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
300 with a C++ header for some compilers.
302 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
304 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
305 =========================
310 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
311 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
312 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
314 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
316 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
318 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
320 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
323 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
325 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
326 search, show and tree mode)
328 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
331 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
334 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
335 always be newest first.
340 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
341 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
342 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
348 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
349 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
350 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
351 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
353 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
354 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
355 non-status providing versions.
357 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
358 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
360 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
361 promised in the documentation.
366 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
367 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
368 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
373 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
374 development version).
379 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
384 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
386 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
387 =========================
392 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
393 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
394 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
397 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
403 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
404 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
405 notmuch-properties(7)).
410 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
411 has protected headers (see
412 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
413 notmuch-properties(7)).
418 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
420 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
421 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
427 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
430 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
431 ===========================
436 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
438 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
443 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
445 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
446 ===========================
451 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
452 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
454 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
455 ===========================
460 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
462 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
463 =========================
468 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
469 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
472 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
473 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
474 the set of headers to be indexed.
476 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
479 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
480 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
481 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
484 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
485 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
486 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
488 Command Line Interface
489 ----------------------
491 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
494 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
496 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
497 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
498 more details about what is included there. This status includes
499 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
504 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
505 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
507 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
509 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
511 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
513 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
515 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
518 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
520 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
521 and may be removed in a future release.
523 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
529 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
531 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
532 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
537 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
538 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
539 cryptography support.
544 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
545 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
546 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
548 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
549 ===========================
551 Command line interface
552 ----------------------
554 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
555 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
557 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
558 ===========================
563 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
564 by message properties.
569 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
571 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
572 ===========================
577 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
582 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
583 now needed to build this documentation.
585 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
586 ===========================
591 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
592 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
594 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
595 =========================
602 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
603 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
604 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
605 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
606 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
609 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
611 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
612 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
613 correct encoding for such messages.
615 Command Line Interface
616 ----------------------
618 Support relative database paths
620 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
621 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
622 to $HOME of the invoking user.
627 Improve stderr handling
629 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
630 needed on e.g. macOS.
632 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
634 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
639 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
640 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
646 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
647 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
653 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
654 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
657 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
658 =========================
663 Add support for thread:{} queries
665 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
666 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
667 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
669 Command Line Interface
670 ----------------------
672 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
674 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
676 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
678 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
679 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
680 does not have to be available during message receipt.
685 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
691 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
692 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
694 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
695 ===========================
700 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
702 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
703 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
704 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
706 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
708 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
709 related abort in `notmuch show`.
711 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
712 ===========================
717 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
718 better late than never.
721 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
722 =========================
724 Command Line Interface
725 ----------------------
727 Support for re-indexing existing messages
729 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
730 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
731 change the way specific messages are indexed.
733 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
734 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
735 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
737 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
739 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
741 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
743 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
744 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
745 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
746 the setting of `new.tags`.
748 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
750 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
752 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
754 This inserts into the top level folder.
756 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
758 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
760 New option --output=address for notmuch address
762 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
764 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
766 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
767 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
768 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
770 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
775 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
777 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
778 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
779 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
780 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
781 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
782 config set index.decrypt true".
784 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
785 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
786 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
787 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
788 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
789 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
790 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
791 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
793 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
794 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
795 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
796 this feature without considering the security of your index.
801 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
803 Use make-process when available
805 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
806 notmuch command without using temporary files.
811 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
813 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
814 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
815 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
816 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
818 New functions to count files
820 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
821 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
823 New function to remove properties
825 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
826 drop all properties with a common pattern:
827 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
829 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
831 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
832 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
833 possibility of NULL was not documented.
835 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
837 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
838 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
839 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
840 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
841 operator may decide to change from message to message.
848 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
849 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
850 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
856 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
858 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
859 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
861 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
863 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
865 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
867 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
872 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
873 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
875 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
876 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
877 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
878 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
879 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
880 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
885 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
887 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
888 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
889 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
890 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
892 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
893 ===========================
898 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
899 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
902 Command Line Interface
903 ----------------------
905 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
906 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
909 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
910 ===========================
912 Command Line Interface
913 ----------------------
915 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
916 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
921 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
924 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
925 ===========================
930 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
933 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
934 =========================
939 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
941 Skip HTML tags when indexing
943 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
945 Command Line Interface
946 ----------------------
948 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
950 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
955 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
957 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
958 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
961 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
966 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
968 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
969 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
971 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
973 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
974 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
977 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
979 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
981 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
983 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
984 ===========================
986 Command Line Interface
987 ----------------------
989 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
994 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
996 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
997 ===========================
1002 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1004 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1005 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1008 Command Line Interface
1009 ----------------------
1011 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1013 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1015 Fix bug in dump header
1017 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1018 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1019 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1024 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1026 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1027 =========================
1032 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1034 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1037 Command Line Interface
1038 ----------------------
1040 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1042 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1043 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1044 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1046 New default output format to 3
1048 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1049 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1050 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1051 default format changes.
1056 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1058 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1059 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1060 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1061 or tree view to resume.
1063 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1064 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1065 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1068 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1069 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1073 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1074 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1075 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1076 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1077 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1081 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1082 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1083 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1084 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1085 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1086 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1090 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1091 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1093 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1095 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1096 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1097 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1098 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1099 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1100 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1101 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1102 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1105 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1107 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1108 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1109 only tagged the current thread.)
1111 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1113 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1114 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1115 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1117 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1119 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1120 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1121 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1122 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1123 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1124 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1125 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1127 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1129 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1130 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1131 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1136 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1138 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1141 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1143 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1146 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1147 ===========================
1152 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1154 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1155 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1156 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1159 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1160 ===========================
1162 Command Line Interface
1163 ----------------------
1165 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1170 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1172 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1173 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1174 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1176 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1177 ===========================
1182 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1183 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1185 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1186 ===========================
1188 Command Line Interface
1189 ----------------------
1191 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1193 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1194 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1195 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1200 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1202 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1203 ===========================
1205 Command Line Interface
1206 ----------------------
1208 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1213 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1215 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1216 ===========================
1221 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1223 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1224 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1225 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1227 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1229 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1231 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1232 ===========================
1237 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1239 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1244 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1246 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1247 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1248 the original colours.
1250 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1251 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1253 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1255 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1256 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1257 bug, and hence the test.
1259 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1260 =========================
1262 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1263 ---------------------
1265 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1267 Support for single argument date: queries
1269 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1271 Support for blocking opens
1273 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1274 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1276 Support for named queries
1278 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1279 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1280 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1285 Message property API
1287 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1288 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1289 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1290 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1292 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1294 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1299 Support for compile time options
1301 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1302 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1305 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1307 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1308 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1309 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1310 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1311 scripts to ignore it.
1316 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1318 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1319 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1320 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1322 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1323 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1324 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1325 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1326 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1327 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1328 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1330 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1331 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1334 Make internal address completion customizable
1336 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1337 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1338 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1339 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1342 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1344 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1345 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1346 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1347 completion for the current buffer.
1349 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1350 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1351 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1355 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1356 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1357 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1358 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1359 will be added instead.
1361 Face customization is easier
1363 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1364 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1365 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1366 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1368 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1373 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1378 Go bindings moved to contrib
1380 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1382 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1384 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1385 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1387 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1389 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1390 ===========================
1397 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1398 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1400 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1402 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1404 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1405 ===========================
1410 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1412 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1417 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1422 Use `env` to locate perl.
1427 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1429 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1431 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1433 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1435 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1436 =========================
1443 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1444 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1446 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1448 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1449 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1450 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1455 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1456 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1457 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1459 Command Line Interface
1460 ----------------------
1462 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1464 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1469 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1474 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1476 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1477 parts are now included in replies.
1479 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1480 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1481 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1482 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1484 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1486 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1488 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1490 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1491 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1492 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1493 forwards only the current message.
1495 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1497 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1498 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1499 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1500 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1501 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1502 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1503 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1504 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1507 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1508 longer generate empty buffers
1510 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1511 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1512 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1513 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1514 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1516 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1518 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1521 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1523 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1526 Address completion improvements
1528 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1529 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1530 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1531 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1532 interactive address completion.
1534 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1536 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1537 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1538 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1543 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1544 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1545 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1551 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1552 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1553 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1554 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1555 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1556 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1558 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1559 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1560 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1561 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1562 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1563 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1565 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1566 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1568 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1569 =========================
1574 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1577 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1579 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1580 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1581 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1583 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1584 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1586 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1587 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1588 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1590 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1592 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1593 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1594 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1595 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1596 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1597 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1602 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1603 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1606 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1607 option to configure.
1609 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1611 Command Line Interface
1612 ----------------------
1614 Database revision tracking
1616 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1617 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1618 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1619 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1621 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1623 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1624 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1625 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1626 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1627 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1628 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1629 manual page for further information.
1634 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1636 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1637 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1639 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1641 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1642 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1643 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1645 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1647 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1649 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1650 customization as well.
1652 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1654 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1656 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1658 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1660 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1661 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1662 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1663 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1665 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1667 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1668 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1669 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1670 this variable to 10000.
1675 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1676 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1678 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1680 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1681 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1682 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1683 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1684 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1685 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1686 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1687 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1688 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1691 Database revision tracking
1693 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1694 query parser and the new function
1695 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1697 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1699 Deprecated functions
1701 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1702 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1703 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1704 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1709 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1711 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1712 ===========================
1717 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1719 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1720 ===========================
1725 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1727 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1728 =========================
1730 Command-Line Interface
1731 ----------------------
1733 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1735 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1736 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1737 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1739 Path to gpg is now configurable
1741 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1742 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1747 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1749 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1754 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1759 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1764 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1766 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1767 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1769 New error logging facility
1771 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1772 output formerly printed to stderr.
1774 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1776 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1778 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1780 Fix for rounding of seconds
1785 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1787 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1788 documentation has been removed.
1790 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1792 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1793 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1798 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1799 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1800 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1805 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1806 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1807 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1808 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1809 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1810 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1813 git checkout config origin/config
1815 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1817 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1818 =========================
1823 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1824 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1825 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1826 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1827 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1828 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1829 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1831 Command-Line Interface
1832 ----------------------
1834 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1836 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1837 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1838 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1839 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1840 script callers should still check the return value.
1842 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1844 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1845 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1846 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1847 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1848 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1849 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1850 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1852 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1854 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1855 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1856 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1858 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1860 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1861 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1862 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1863 currently unmaintained.
1865 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1867 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1868 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1869 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1870 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1872 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1874 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1875 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1876 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1877 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1878 count of duplicate addresses.
1883 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1885 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1886 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1887 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1890 Improved handling of the unread tag
1892 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1893 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1894 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1895 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1896 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1897 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1898 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1900 Expanded default saved search settings
1902 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1903 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1905 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1907 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1908 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1909 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1911 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1913 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1914 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1915 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1916 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1917 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1918 the variable for details.
1923 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1925 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1926 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1927 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1928 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1930 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1932 Previously, library users were required to call
1933 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1934 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1935 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1936 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1937 too out of date for that API.
1939 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1941 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1942 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1943 atomic section will be aborted.
1945 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1946 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1948 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1950 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1951 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1952 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1953 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1954 messages into the same thread.
1959 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1960 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1961 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1962 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1963 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1964 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1969 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1970 from the config file. Use something like:
1974 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1975 "footer": "</body></html>",
1984 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1989 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1990 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1991 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1993 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1994 ===========================
1999 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2001 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2003 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2005 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2006 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2008 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2010 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2013 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2014 ===========================
2016 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2021 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2023 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2025 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2027 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2029 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2035 Use --quick when starting emacs
2037 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2039 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2041 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2043 Command-Line Interface
2044 ----------------------
2046 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2047 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2052 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2054 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2055 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2057 Fix for phrase indexing
2059 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2060 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2061 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2066 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2068 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2069 unintentionally removed.
2071 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2072 =========================
2077 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2078 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2079 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2080 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2081 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2082 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2083 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2084 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2085 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2091 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2093 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2094 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2095 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2096 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2097 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2098 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2099 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2100 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2102 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2104 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2105 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2106 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2107 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2110 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2112 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2113 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2114 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2115 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2116 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2117 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2118 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2123 Notmuch database upgrade
2125 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2126 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2127 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2128 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2129 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2130 released version of Notmuch before now.
2132 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2134 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2135 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2136 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2137 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2139 Message header parsing changes
2141 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2142 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2143 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2144 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2145 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2146 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2148 Command-Line Interface
2149 ----------------------
2151 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2153 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2155 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2157 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2159 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2161 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2162 user does not want it.
2164 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2166 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2167 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2168 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2169 support formatted output.
2171 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2173 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2174 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2175 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2183 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2184 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2185 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2186 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2187 `~/.emacs` with these.
2189 Changed format for saved searches
2191 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2192 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2193 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2194 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2197 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2198 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2199 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2200 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2202 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2203 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2204 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2206 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2207 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2208 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2209 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2210 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2212 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2214 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2215 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2216 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2218 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2220 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2221 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2222 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2223 message had been unread).
2225 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2226 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2227 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2228 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2230 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2231 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2232 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2234 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2235 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2236 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2237 to tags already present.
2241 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2242 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2243 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2244 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2245 these differ from each other.
2246 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2248 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2250 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2251 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2252 for these Emacs versions.
2254 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2256 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2257 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2259 Bug fixes for sender identities
2261 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2262 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2263 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2265 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2267 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2268 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2269 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2270 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2272 Reply pushes mark before signature
2274 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2275 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2276 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2278 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2280 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2281 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2287 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2288 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2290 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2291 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2292 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2293 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2295 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2296 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2297 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2298 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2299 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2301 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2303 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2304 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2306 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2307 =========================
2309 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2310 ---------------------------------------
2312 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2313 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2314 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2315 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2316 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2317 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2318 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2322 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2323 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2325 Command-Line Interface
2326 ----------------------
2328 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2330 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2331 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2332 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2333 print for each message.
2335 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2336 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2337 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2338 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2340 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2342 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2343 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2344 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2346 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2348 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2349 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2350 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2351 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2353 `notmuch compact` command
2355 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2356 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2357 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2358 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2359 move the compacted database into place.
2364 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2366 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2367 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2368 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2369 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2370 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2371 and multiple threads.
2373 Using `notmuch-tree`
2375 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2377 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2378 search, show and tree mode itself)
2380 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2383 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2384 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2386 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2388 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2389 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2390 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2391 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2392 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2393 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2394 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2396 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2398 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2399 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2400 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2401 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2402 thread when the search was performed.
2404 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2406 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2407 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2408 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2410 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2412 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2413 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2416 Built-in help improvements
2418 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2419 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2420 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2422 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2424 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2425 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2426 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2428 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2430 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2431 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2433 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2435 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2436 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2437 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2438 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2440 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2442 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2443 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2444 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2445 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2447 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2449 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2450 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2451 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2453 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2455 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2456 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2457 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2459 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2461 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2462 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2463 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2464 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2465 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2467 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2469 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2470 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2471 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2472 the body part of the message.
2477 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2478 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2479 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2481 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2482 =========================
2484 Command-Line Interface
2485 ----------------------
2487 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2489 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2490 folder and notmuch index.
2492 `notmuch count --batch` option
2494 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2495 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2497 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2499 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2500 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2501 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2504 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2506 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2507 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2508 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2509 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2510 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2513 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2515 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2516 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2518 Top level option to specify configuration file
2520 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2521 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2523 Bash command-line completion
2525 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2526 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2527 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2528 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2529 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2530 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2531 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2532 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2533 bash-completion package.
2535 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2540 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2542 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2543 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2544 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2545 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2546 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2547 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2548 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2549 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2551 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2553 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2554 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2555 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2557 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2559 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2560 previous thread in the search results.
2562 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2564 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2565 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2567 Faster search and show
2569 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2570 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2571 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2572 threads should show faster.
2576 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2577 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2578 in question was now removed from this release.
2583 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2584 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2589 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2591 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2592 ===========================
2597 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2599 Internal test framework changes
2600 -------------------------------
2602 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2603 being unimplemented.
2605 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2606 ===========================
2608 Internal test framework changes
2609 -------------------------------
2611 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2612 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2614 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2615 =========================
2620 Date range search support
2622 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2623 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2624 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2625 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2626 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2629 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2631 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2632 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2633 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2634 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2635 but may be removed in a future release.
2637 Command-Line Interface
2638 ----------------------
2640 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2642 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2643 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2645 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2647 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2648 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2649 officially deprecated.
2651 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2653 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2654 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2655 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2657 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2659 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2660 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2663 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2664 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2665 dump/restore format.
2667 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2669 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2670 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2671 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2673 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2675 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2676 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2677 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2679 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2681 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2682 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2683 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2684 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2689 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2691 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2692 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2693 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2694 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2696 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2698 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2699 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2700 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2701 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2702 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2703 the behavior of this, see
2704 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2705 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2707 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2708 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2709 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2711 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2713 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2714 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2717 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2719 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2720 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2721 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2722 simply displayed in place of the message.
2724 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2726 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2727 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2729 Improved text/calendar content handling
2731 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2732 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2733 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2734 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2736 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2738 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2739 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2740 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2741 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2743 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2745 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2746 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2747 for HTML email containing images.
2749 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2751 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2753 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2755 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2758 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2760 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2761 the point where it was.
2763 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2765 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2766 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2767 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2768 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2769 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2771 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2773 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2774 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2775 thread instead of the message id.
2777 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2778 -----------------------------
2780 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2781 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2782 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2783 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2784 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2785 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2786 further details and installation.
2791 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2793 Internal test framework changes
2794 -------------------------------
2796 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2798 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2799 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2800 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2801 can result in buggy behavior.
2803 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2804 =========================
2809 Maildir tag synchronization
2811 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2812 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2813 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2814 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2815 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2816 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2819 Command-Line Interface
2820 ----------------------
2822 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2823 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2824 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2825 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2826 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2832 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2834 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2836 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2837 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2838 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2840 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2842 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2843 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2844 span multiple lines.
2846 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2848 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2849 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2850 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2851 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2852 inside the result or message.
2854 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2856 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2857 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2859 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2860 user-specified formatting
2862 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2863 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2864 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2865 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2866 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2868 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2869 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2871 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2872 ===========================
2877 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2878 compilation error for this contrib package.
2880 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2881 ===========================
2886 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2888 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2889 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2890 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2891 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2893 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2894 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2897 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2898 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2899 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2900 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2903 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2905 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2908 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2909 =========================
2911 Command-Line Interface
2912 ----------------------
2916 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2917 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2918 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2919 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2921 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2922 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2923 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2924 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2928 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2929 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2931 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2932 tag in your query, for example:
2934 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2936 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2937 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2939 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2940 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2942 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2944 Raw show format changes
2946 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2947 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2948 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2949 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2950 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2951 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2952 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2953 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2955 Listing configuration items
2957 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2963 Changes to tagging interface
2965 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2966 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2967 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2968 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2969 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2970 for more information.
2972 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2973 may need to update in custom configurations.
2975 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2977 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2978 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2979 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2980 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2983 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2984 -----------------------------
2986 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2987 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2988 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2989 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2990 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2991 contrib/ from now on.
2996 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2997 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2999 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3000 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3002 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3003 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3004 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3006 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3007 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3009 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3010 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3011 returning the new database object or directory object.
3018 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3019 compatible with go 1.
3021 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3022 =========================
3024 Command-Line Interface
3025 ----------------------
3029 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3030 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3031 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3032 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3034 Mail store folder/file ignore
3036 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3037 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3038 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3040 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3041 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3043 Unified help and manual pages
3045 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3046 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3049 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3051 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3052 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3060 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3061 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3062 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3063 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3065 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3067 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3068 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3070 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3073 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3074 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3075 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3077 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3079 should be changed to:
3081 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3083 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3085 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3086 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3088 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3090 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3091 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3092 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3093 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3094 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3095 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3099 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3100 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3101 of Mailing List Archives.
3103 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3105 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3106 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3109 Show view archiving key binding changes
3111 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3112 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3113 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3114 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3115 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3118 Support text/calendar MIME type
3120 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3123 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3125 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3126 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3127 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3128 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3130 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3132 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3133 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3134 messages blue by default in the search view.
3138 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3139 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3146 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3149 Python bindings changes
3150 -----------------------
3152 Python 3.2 compatibility
3154 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3156 Added missing unicode conversions
3158 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3159 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3160 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3165 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3167 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3168 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3169 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3170 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3171 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3173 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3174 ===========================
3179 Fix error handling in python bindings
3181 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3182 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3183 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3184 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3186 Quote MML tags in replies
3188 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3189 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3190 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3191 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3192 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3193 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3194 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3195 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3197 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3198 =========================
3200 Command-Line Interface
3201 ----------------------
3205 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3206 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3207 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3208 importing new messages into the database.
3210 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3212 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3213 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3214 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3219 Automatic tag query optimization
3221 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3222 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3223 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3225 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3227 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3228 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3229 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3234 Reduction of memory leaks
3236 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3237 and fixed in this release.
3244 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3245 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3246 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3249 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3251 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3252 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3253 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3256 Improvements in saved search management
3258 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3259 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3260 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3262 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3264 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3265 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3266 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3268 New face for crypto parts headers
3270 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3271 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3272 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3275 Use space as default thousands separator
3277 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3278 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3279 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3281 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3282 buttonized id: links
3284 New function notmuch-show-advance
3286 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3287 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3288 be bound to SPC with:
3290 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3292 Various performance improvements
3297 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3298 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3301 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3302 ===========================
3307 Fix crash in python bindings
3309 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3310 for some, but not all users.
3312 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3313 ===========================
3318 Fix `--help` argument
3320 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3321 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3322 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3324 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3325 =========================
3327 New build and testing features
3328 ------------------------------
3330 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3331 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3332 prerequisites is improved.
3334 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3336 New command-line features
3337 -------------------------
3339 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3341 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3342 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3345 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3347 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3348 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3349 favour of using stdout.
3351 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3353 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3354 limit the number of results shown.
3356 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3358 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3359 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3362 New emacs UI features
3363 ---------------------
3365 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3367 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3368 starting with "tag:".
3370 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3372 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3373 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3375 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3377 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3379 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3381 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3382 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3387 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3389 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3391 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3392 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3393 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3394 requires a database rebuild:
3396 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3397 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3399 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3401 New collection of add-on tools
3402 ------------------------------
3404 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3405 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3406 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3409 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3411 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3412 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3413 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3415 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3416 ========================
3418 New, general features
3419 ---------------------
3421 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3423 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3424 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3425 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3426 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3427 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3434 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3435 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3437 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3441 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3442 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3443 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3446 Python bindings changes
3447 -----------------------
3449 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3451 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3452 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3453 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3454 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3455 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3456 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3458 Ruby bindings changes
3459 ---------------------
3461 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3462 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3463 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3464 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3469 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3471 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3472 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3474 Reply formatting cleanup
3475 ------------------------
3477 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3478 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3480 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3481 ========================
3483 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3485 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3486 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3487 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3488 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3491 Improved Build system portability
3493 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3494 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3495 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3497 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3499 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3501 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3503 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3504 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3505 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3507 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3508 ========================
3510 Vim interface improvements
3511 --------------------------
3513 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3515 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3516 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3517 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3518 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3519 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3521 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3523 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3524 * fix compose temp file name
3526 Python Bindings changes
3527 -----------------------
3529 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3531 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3532 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3534 Build-System improvements
3535 -------------------------
3537 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3539 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3542 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3543 ==========================
3548 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3550 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3551 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3553 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3554 =======================
3556 New, general features
3557 ---------------------
3559 Folder-based searching
3561 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3562 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3563 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3567 For example, one might use things such as:
3573 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3574 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3576 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3577 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3578 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3579 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3581 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3582 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3583 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3586 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3587 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3589 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3591 Support for PGP/MIME
3593 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3594 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3595 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3597 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3599 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3600 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3602 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3603 notmuch will receive these tags.
3605 New command-line features
3606 -------------------------
3608 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3610 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3611 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3613 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3615 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3616 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3617 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3619 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3621 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3622 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3623 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3624 which parts a signature part applies).
3626 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3628 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3629 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3630 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3631 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3632 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3635 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3637 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3638 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3639 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3640 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3641 by translating it internally to the new call.
3643 Performance improvements
3644 ------------------------
3646 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3648 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3649 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3650 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3652 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3653 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3655 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3657 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3658 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3659 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3661 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3662 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3663 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3664 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3666 Faster initial indexing
3668 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3669 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3670 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3672 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3674 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3675 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3676 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3677 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3679 New emacs-interface features
3680 ----------------------------
3682 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3684 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3685 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3686 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3687 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3688 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3689 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3691 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3693 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3694 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3695 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3696 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3698 User-selectable From address
3700 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3701 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3702 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3703 will prompt for the from address to use.
3705 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3706 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3707 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3709 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3710 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3711 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3714 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3716 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3717 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3719 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3721 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3723 ----- Original Message -----
3725 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3726 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3727 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3728 citations work much like conventional citations.
3730 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3732 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3733 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3734 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3735 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3736 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3738 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3739 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3741 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3743 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3744 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3745 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3747 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3749 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3750 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3751 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3752 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3753 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3755 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3757 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3760 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3762 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3764 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3766 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3769 Vim interface improvements
3770 --------------------------
3772 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3774 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3775 * Implementing archive in show view
3776 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3777 * Add delete commands
3780 Bindings improvements
3781 ---------------------
3783 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3785 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3786 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3788 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3790 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3794 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3795 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3796 `list(Messages)` works now
3797 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3799 These allow, for example:
3801 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3803 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3805 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3811 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3813 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3816 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3818 New build-system features
3819 -------------------------
3821 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3823 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3824 the configure script from some other directory:
3831 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3833 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3834 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3835 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3836 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3837 manual invocation of configure.
3839 New test-suite feature
3840 ----------------------
3842 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3844 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3845 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3846 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3847 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3848 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3851 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3853 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3854 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3855 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3856 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3857 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3858 are updated to take advantage of this.
3860 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3862 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3863 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3864 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3865 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3871 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3873 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3874 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3875 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3877 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3879 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3881 to:user@elsewhere.com
3883 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3885 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3887 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3889 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3890 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3891 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3894 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3895 from the Received headers in some cases
3897 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3898 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3900 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3902 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3904 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3906 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3907 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3908 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3910 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3911 -------------------------
3913 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3915 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3916 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3917 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3919 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3921 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3922 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3923 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3926 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3928 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3929 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3930 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3931 fixed to avoid this bug.
3933 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3935 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3936 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3938 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3939 ========================
3941 New, general features
3942 ---------------------
3944 Maildir-flag synchronization
3946 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3947 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3956 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3958 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3959 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3960 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3961 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3963 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3964 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3965 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3966 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3969 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3971 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3972 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3973 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3975 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3976 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3978 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3979 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3981 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3982 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3983 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3985 New library features
3986 --------------------
3988 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3990 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3991 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3992 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3993 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3995 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3996 message with the new function:
3998 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4000 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4001 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4002 over all available filenames for a given message.
4004 New command-line features
4005 -------------------------
4007 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4009 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4010 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4011 access to the mail store itself.
4013 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4014 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4015 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4016 name of a script containing:
4018 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4020 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4021 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4027 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4029 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4031 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4033 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4034 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4035 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4036 now produces nothing).
4038 Emacs interface improvements
4039 ----------------------------
4041 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4043 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4045 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4047 Display current thread subject in a header line
4049 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4051 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4053 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4054 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4055 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4056 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4057 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4058 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4059 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4061 Vim interface improvements
4062 --------------------------
4064 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4066 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4067 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4073 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4075 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4076 ========================
4078 New command-line features
4079 -------------------------
4081 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4083 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4084 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4085 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4087 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4088 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4089 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4090 scripts. For example:
4092 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4093 <operations-on> "$file"
4096 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4098 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4099 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4100 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4101 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4102 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4103 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4105 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4107 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4108 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4109 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4110 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4112 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4114 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4115 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4116 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4117 default rather than Bcc.
4119 New library features
4120 --------------------
4122 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4124 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4125 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4130 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4132 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4133 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4134 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4135 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4136 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4137 notmuch customize interface.
4139 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4141 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4142 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4143 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4144 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4146 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4148 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4149 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4150 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4151 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4153 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4155 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4156 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4157 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4158 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4159 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4160 notmuch customize interface.
4162 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4164 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4165 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4166 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4167 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4168 notmuch customize interface.
4170 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4172 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4173 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4174 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4175 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4178 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4180 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4181 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4182 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4185 New build-system features
4186 -------------------------
4188 Various portability fixes have been applied
4190 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4191 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4192 more portable than ever before.
4194 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4196 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4197 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4198 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4200 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4201 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4202 automatically run ldconfig.
4204 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4205 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4206 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4208 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4209 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4210 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4211 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4213 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4215 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4216 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4217 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4218 used in the resulting Makefile.
4220 New test-suite features
4221 -----------------------
4223 New modularization of test suite
4225 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4226 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4227 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4228 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4229 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4230 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4231 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4232 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4234 New testing of emacs interface
4236 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4237 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4238 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4239 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4240 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4241 database via the FCC setting.
4246 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4248 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4249 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4250 persistent error of the form:
4252 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4254 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4255 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4257 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4259 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4260 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4261 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4263 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4265 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4266 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4267 parsing the notmuch results).
4269 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4271 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4274 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4275 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4276 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4281 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4283 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4284 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4285 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4286 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4287 the emacs interface.
4289 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4291 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4292 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4293 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4295 Python-binding fixes
4296 --------------------
4298 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4300 Debian-specific fixes
4301 ---------------------
4303 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4305 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4306 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4307 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4310 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4311 ==========================
4316 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4318 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4319 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4320 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4321 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4323 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4325 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4326 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4327 want notmuch to crash.
4332 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4334 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4335 directory does not exist
4340 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4342 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4343 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4345 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4346 ========================
4348 New command-line features
4349 -------------------------
4351 User-configurable tags for new messages
4353 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4354 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4355 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4356 to specify this value.
4358 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4360 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4361 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4362 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4364 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4366 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4367 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4369 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4371 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4372 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4373 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4374 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4375 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4378 Indication of author names that match a search
4380 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4381 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4382 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4383 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4384 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4385 messages in the thread are listed first.
4387 New: Python bindings
4388 --------------------
4390 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4391 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4392 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4393 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4395 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4396 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4397 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4400 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4401 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4402 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4404 Emacs interface improvements
4405 ----------------------------
4407 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4409 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4410 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4411 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4412 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4413 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4414 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4415 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4416 but without any of the disadvantages).
4418 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4419 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4420 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4423 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4424 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4425 instead running something like:
4427 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4429 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4430 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4431 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4434 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4436 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4437 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4438 tweaked by the user.
4440 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4441 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4442 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4445 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4446 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4447 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4450 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4452 This support currently relies on an external program,
4453 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4454 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4455 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4456 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4457 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4460 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4461 notmuch) is available via:
4463 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4465 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4466 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4467 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4469 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4471 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4472 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4473 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4474 making this automatic in a future release.
4476 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4478 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4479 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4480 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4481 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4482 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4483 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4486 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4488 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4489 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4490 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4492 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4494 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4495 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4496 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4498 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4499 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4500 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4501 other representation.
4503 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4504 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4507 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4509 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4510 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4511 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4513 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4514 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4515 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4517 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4519 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4520 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4521 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4522 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4523 to display the search result.
4525 More flexible handling of header visibility
4527 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4528 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4529 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4530 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4531 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4532 with the 'h' keybinding.
4534 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4535 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4536 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4538 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4540 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4542 Customizable formatting of search results
4544 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4545 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4546 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4548 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4550 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4552 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4557 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4559 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4560 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4561 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4562 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4568 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4570 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4571 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4573 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4575 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4576 accept are now all accepted.
4581 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4583 Better display of output from failed tests
4585 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4586 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4588 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4589 ========================
4591 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4592 detailed release notes this time!
4594 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4595 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4597 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4598 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4599 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4600 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4607 Better guessing of From: header
4609 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4610 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4611 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4612 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4613 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4616 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4618 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4619 guaranteed to match all messages.
4621 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4623 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4624 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4625 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4626 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4627 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4630 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4633 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4634 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4635 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4636 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4641 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4643 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4644 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4645 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4646 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4648 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4650 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4652 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4653 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4654 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4656 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4658 Previously, the user might see:
4660 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4664 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4666 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4667 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4668 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4669 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4671 Emacs client features
4672 ---------------------
4674 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4676 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4677 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4678 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4679 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4680 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4682 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4685 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4686 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4687 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4688 search with the '*' binding.
4690 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4692 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4693 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4696 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4698 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4699 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4700 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4702 Build-system features
4703 ---------------------
4705 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4707 Add support to configure for many standard options
4709 We include actual support for:
4711 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4713 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4715 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4716 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4718 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4719 separate "make install-emacs"
4721 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4723 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4724 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4725 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4727 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4730 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4731 ========================
4733 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4735 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4736 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4738 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4739 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4740 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4741 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4742 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4743 tags from messages in a thread.
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