1 Notmuch 0.33 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
9 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
10 ===========================
15 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
16 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
17 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
19 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
20 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
21 database in a pre-new hook.
23 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
24 default worked only in "notmuch config".
29 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
30 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
32 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
33 =========================
38 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
39 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
40 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
41 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
42 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
43 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
44 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
45 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
46 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
47 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
48 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
53 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
54 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
56 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
57 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
58 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
59 - `notmuch_config_get`
61 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
62 now exposed (and generalized).
64 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
65 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
66 session has been fixed.
68 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
69 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
74 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
75 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
77 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
78 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
83 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
84 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
85 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
86 when prompting for senders.
88 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
89 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
92 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
94 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
96 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
97 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
98 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
99 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
100 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
101 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
102 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
104 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
105 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
107 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
108 you should change it to:
109 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
111 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
112 ===========================
117 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
122 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
124 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
125 ===========================
130 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
135 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
140 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
142 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
143 ===========================
148 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
149 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
151 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
152 ===========================
157 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
162 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
163 with a C++ header for some compilers.
165 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
167 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
168 =========================
173 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
174 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
175 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
177 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
179 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
181 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
183 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
186 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
188 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
189 search, show and tree mode)
191 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
194 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
197 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
198 always be newest first.
203 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
204 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
205 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
211 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
212 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
213 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
214 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
216 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
217 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
218 non-status providing versions.
220 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
221 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
223 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
224 promised in the documentation.
229 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
230 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
231 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
236 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
237 development version).
242 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
247 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
249 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
250 =========================
255 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
256 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
257 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
260 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
266 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
267 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
268 notmuch-properties(7)).
273 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
274 has protected headers (see
275 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
276 notmuch-properties(7)).
281 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
283 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
284 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
290 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
293 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
294 ===========================
299 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
301 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
306 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
308 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
309 ===========================
314 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
315 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
317 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
318 ===========================
323 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
325 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
326 =========================
331 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
332 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
335 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
336 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
337 the set of headers to be indexed.
339 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
342 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
343 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
344 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
347 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
348 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
349 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
351 Command Line Interface
352 ----------------------
354 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
357 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
359 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
360 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
361 more details about what is included there. This status includes
362 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
367 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
368 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
370 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
372 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
374 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
376 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
378 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
381 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
383 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
384 and may be removed in a future release.
386 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
392 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
394 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
395 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
400 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
401 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
402 cryptography support.
407 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
408 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
409 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
411 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
412 ===========================
414 Command line interface
415 ----------------------
417 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
418 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
420 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
421 ===========================
426 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
427 by message properties.
432 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
434 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
435 ===========================
440 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
445 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
446 now needed to build this documentation.
448 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
449 ===========================
454 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
455 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
457 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
458 =========================
465 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
466 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
467 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
468 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
469 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
472 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
474 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
475 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
476 correct encoding for such messages.
478 Command Line Interface
479 ----------------------
481 Support relative database paths
483 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
484 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
485 to $HOME of the invoking user.
490 Improve stderr handling
492 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
493 needed on e.g. macOS.
495 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
497 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
502 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
503 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
509 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
510 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
516 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
517 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
520 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
521 =========================
526 Add support for thread:{} queries
528 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
529 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
530 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
532 Command Line Interface
533 ----------------------
535 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
537 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
539 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
541 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
542 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
543 does not have to be available during message receipt.
548 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
554 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
555 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
557 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
558 ===========================
563 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
565 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
566 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
567 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
569 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
571 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
572 related abort in `notmuch show`.
574 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
575 ===========================
580 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
581 better late than never.
584 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
585 =========================
587 Command Line Interface
588 ----------------------
590 Support for re-indexing existing messages
592 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
593 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
594 change the way specific messages are indexed.
596 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
597 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
598 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
600 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
602 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
604 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
606 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
607 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
608 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
609 the setting of `new.tags`.
611 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
613 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
615 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
617 This inserts into the top level folder.
619 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
621 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
623 New option --output=address for notmuch address
625 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
627 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
629 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
630 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
631 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
633 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
638 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
640 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
641 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
642 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
643 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
644 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
645 config set index.decrypt true".
647 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
648 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
649 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
650 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
651 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
652 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
653 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
654 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
656 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
657 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
658 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
659 this feature without considering the security of your index.
664 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
666 Use make-process when available
668 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
669 notmuch command without using temporary files.
674 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
676 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
677 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
678 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
679 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
681 New functions to count files
683 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
684 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
686 New function to remove properties
688 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
689 drop all properties with a common pattern:
690 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
692 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
694 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
695 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
696 possibility of NULL was not documented.
698 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
700 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
701 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
702 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
703 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
704 operator may decide to change from message to message.
711 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
712 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
713 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
719 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
721 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
722 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
724 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
726 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
728 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
730 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
735 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
736 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
738 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
739 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
740 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
741 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
742 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
743 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
748 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
750 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
751 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
752 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
753 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
755 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
756 ===========================
761 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
762 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
765 Command Line Interface
766 ----------------------
768 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
769 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
772 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
773 ===========================
775 Command Line Interface
776 ----------------------
778 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
779 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
784 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
787 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
788 ===========================
793 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
796 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
797 =========================
802 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
804 Skip HTML tags when indexing
806 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
808 Command Line Interface
809 ----------------------
811 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
813 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
818 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
820 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
821 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
824 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
829 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
831 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
832 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
834 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
836 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
837 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
840 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
842 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
844 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
846 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
847 ===========================
849 Command Line Interface
850 ----------------------
852 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
857 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
859 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
860 ===========================
865 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
867 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
868 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
871 Command Line Interface
872 ----------------------
874 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
876 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
878 Fix bug in dump header
880 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
881 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
882 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
887 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
889 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
890 =========================
895 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
897 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
900 Command Line Interface
901 ----------------------
903 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
905 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
906 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
907 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
909 New default output format to 3
911 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
912 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
913 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
914 default format changes.
919 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
921 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
922 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
923 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
924 or tree view to resume.
926 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
927 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
928 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
931 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
932 they were when you postponed in the final message.
936 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
937 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
938 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
939 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
940 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
944 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
945 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
946 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
947 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
948 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
949 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
953 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
954 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
956 Stop display of `application/*` parts
958 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
959 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
960 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
961 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
962 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
963 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
964 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
965 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
968 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
970 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
971 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
972 only tagged the current thread.)
974 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
976 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
977 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
978 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
980 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
982 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
983 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
984 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
985 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
986 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
987 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
988 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
990 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
992 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
993 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
994 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
999 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1001 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1004 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1006 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1009 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1010 ===========================
1015 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1017 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1018 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1019 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1022 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1023 ===========================
1025 Command Line Interface
1026 ----------------------
1028 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1033 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1035 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1036 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1037 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1039 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1040 ===========================
1045 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1046 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1048 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1049 ===========================
1051 Command Line Interface
1052 ----------------------
1054 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1056 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1057 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1058 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1063 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1065 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1066 ===========================
1068 Command Line Interface
1069 ----------------------
1071 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1076 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1078 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1079 ===========================
1084 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1086 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1087 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1088 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1090 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1092 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1094 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1095 ===========================
1100 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1102 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1107 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1109 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1110 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1111 the original colours.
1113 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1114 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1116 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1118 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1119 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1120 bug, and hence the test.
1122 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1123 =========================
1125 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1126 ---------------------
1128 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1130 Support for single argument date: queries
1132 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1134 Support for blocking opens
1136 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1137 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1139 Support for named queries
1141 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1142 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1143 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1148 Message property API
1150 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1151 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1152 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1153 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1155 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1157 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1162 Support for compile time options
1164 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1165 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1168 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1170 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1171 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1172 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1173 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1174 scripts to ignore it.
1179 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1181 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1182 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1183 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1185 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1186 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1187 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1188 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1189 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1190 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1191 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1193 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1194 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1197 Make internal address completion customizable
1199 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1200 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1201 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1202 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1205 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1207 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1208 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1209 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1210 completion for the current buffer.
1212 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1213 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1214 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1218 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1219 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1220 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1221 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1222 will be added instead.
1224 Face customization is easier
1226 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1227 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1228 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1229 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1231 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1236 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1241 Go bindings moved to contrib
1243 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1245 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1247 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1248 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1250 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1252 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1253 ===========================
1260 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1261 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1263 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1265 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1267 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1268 ===========================
1273 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1275 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1280 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1285 Use `env` to locate perl.
1290 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1292 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1294 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1296 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1298 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1299 =========================
1306 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1307 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1309 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1311 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1312 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1313 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1318 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1319 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1320 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1322 Command Line Interface
1323 ----------------------
1325 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1327 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1332 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1337 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1339 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1340 parts are now included in replies.
1342 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1343 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1344 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1345 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1347 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1349 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1351 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1353 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1354 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1355 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1356 forwards only the current message.
1358 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1360 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1361 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1362 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1363 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1364 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1365 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1366 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1367 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1370 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1371 longer generate empty buffers
1373 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1374 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1375 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1376 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1377 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1379 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1381 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1384 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1386 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1389 Address completion improvements
1391 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1392 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1393 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1394 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1395 interactive address completion.
1397 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1399 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1400 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1401 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1406 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1407 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1408 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1414 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1415 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1416 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1417 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1418 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1419 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1421 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1422 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1423 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1424 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1425 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1426 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1428 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1429 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1431 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1432 =========================
1437 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1440 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1442 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1443 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1444 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1446 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1447 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1449 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1450 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1451 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1453 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1455 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1456 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1457 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1458 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1459 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1460 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1465 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1466 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1469 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1470 option to configure.
1472 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1474 Command Line Interface
1475 ----------------------
1477 Database revision tracking
1479 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1480 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1481 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1482 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1484 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1486 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1487 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1488 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1489 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1490 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1491 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1492 manual page for further information.
1497 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1499 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1500 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1502 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1504 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1505 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1506 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1508 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1510 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1512 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1513 customization as well.
1515 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1517 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1519 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1521 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1523 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1524 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1525 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1526 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1528 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1530 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1531 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1532 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1533 this variable to 10000.
1538 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1539 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1541 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1543 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1544 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1545 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1546 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1547 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1548 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1549 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1550 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1551 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1554 Database revision tracking
1556 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1557 query parser and the new function
1558 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1560 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1562 Deprecated functions
1564 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1565 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1566 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1567 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1572 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1574 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1575 ===========================
1580 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1582 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1583 ===========================
1588 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1590 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1591 =========================
1593 Command-Line Interface
1594 ----------------------
1596 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1598 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1599 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1600 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1602 Path to gpg is now configurable
1604 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1605 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1610 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1612 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1617 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1622 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1627 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1629 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1630 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1632 New error logging facility
1634 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1635 output formerly printed to stderr.
1637 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1639 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1641 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1643 Fix for rounding of seconds
1648 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1650 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1651 documentation has been removed.
1653 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1655 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1656 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1661 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1662 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1663 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1668 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1669 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1670 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1671 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1672 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1673 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1676 git checkout config origin/config
1678 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1680 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1681 =========================
1686 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1687 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1688 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1689 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1690 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1691 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1692 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1694 Command-Line Interface
1695 ----------------------
1697 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1699 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1700 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1701 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1702 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1703 script callers should still check the return value.
1705 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1707 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1708 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1709 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1710 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1711 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1712 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1713 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1715 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1717 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1718 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1719 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1721 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1723 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1724 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1725 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1726 currently unmaintained.
1728 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1730 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1731 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1732 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1733 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1735 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1737 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1738 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1739 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1740 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1741 count of duplicate addresses.
1746 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1748 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1749 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1750 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1753 Improved handling of the unread tag
1755 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1756 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1757 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1758 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1759 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1760 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1761 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1763 Expanded default saved search settings
1765 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1766 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1768 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1770 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1771 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1772 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1774 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1776 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1777 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1778 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1779 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1780 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1781 the variable for details.
1786 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1788 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1789 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1790 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1791 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1793 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1795 Previously, library users were required to call
1796 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1797 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1798 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1799 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1800 too out of date for that API.
1802 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1804 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1805 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1806 atomic section will be aborted.
1808 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1809 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1811 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1813 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1814 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1815 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1816 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1817 messages into the same thread.
1822 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1823 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1824 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1825 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1826 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1827 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1832 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1833 from the config file. Use something like:
1837 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1838 "footer": "</body></html>",
1847 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1852 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1853 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1854 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1856 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1857 ===========================
1862 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1864 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1866 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1868 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1869 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1871 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1873 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1876 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1877 ===========================
1879 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1884 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1886 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1888 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1890 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1892 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1898 Use --quick when starting emacs
1900 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1902 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1904 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1906 Command-Line Interface
1907 ----------------------
1909 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1910 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1915 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1917 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1918 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1920 Fix for phrase indexing
1922 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1923 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1924 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1929 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1931 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1932 unintentionally removed.
1934 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1935 =========================
1940 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1941 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1942 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1943 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1944 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1945 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1946 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1947 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1948 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1954 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1956 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1957 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1958 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1959 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1960 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1961 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1962 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1963 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1965 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1967 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1968 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1969 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1970 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1973 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1975 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1976 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1977 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1978 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1979 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1980 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1981 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1986 Notmuch database upgrade
1988 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1989 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1990 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1991 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1992 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1993 released version of Notmuch before now.
1995 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1997 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1998 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1999 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2000 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2002 Message header parsing changes
2004 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2005 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2006 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2007 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2008 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2009 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2011 Command-Line Interface
2012 ----------------------
2014 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2016 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2018 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2020 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2022 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2024 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2025 user does not want it.
2027 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2029 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2030 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2031 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2032 support formatted output.
2034 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2036 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2037 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2038 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2046 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2047 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2048 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2049 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2050 `~/.emacs` with these.
2052 Changed format for saved searches
2054 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2055 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2056 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2057 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2060 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2061 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2062 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2063 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2065 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2066 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2067 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2069 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2070 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2071 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2072 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2073 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2075 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2077 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2078 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2079 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2081 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2083 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2084 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2085 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2086 message had been unread).
2088 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2089 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2090 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2091 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2093 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2094 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2095 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2097 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2098 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2099 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2100 to tags already present.
2104 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2105 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2106 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2107 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2108 these differ from each other.
2109 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2111 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2113 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2114 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2115 for these Emacs versions.
2117 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2119 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2120 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2122 Bug fixes for sender identities
2124 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2125 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2126 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2128 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2130 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2131 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2132 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2133 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2135 Reply pushes mark before signature
2137 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2138 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2139 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2141 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2143 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2144 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2150 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2151 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2153 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2154 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2155 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2156 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2158 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2159 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2160 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2161 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2162 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2164 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2166 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2167 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2169 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2170 =========================
2172 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2173 ---------------------------------------
2175 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2176 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2177 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2178 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2179 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2180 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2181 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2185 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2186 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2188 Command-Line Interface
2189 ----------------------
2191 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2193 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2194 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2195 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2196 print for each message.
2198 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2199 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2200 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2201 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2203 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2205 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2206 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2207 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2209 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2211 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2212 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2213 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2214 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2216 `notmuch compact` command
2218 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2219 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2220 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2221 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2222 move the compacted database into place.
2227 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2229 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2230 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2231 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2232 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2233 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2234 and multiple threads.
2236 Using `notmuch-tree`
2238 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2240 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2241 search, show and tree mode itself)
2243 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2246 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2247 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2249 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2251 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2252 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2253 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2254 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2255 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2256 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2257 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2259 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2261 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2262 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2263 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2264 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2265 thread when the search was performed.
2267 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2269 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2270 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2271 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2273 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2275 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2276 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2279 Built-in help improvements
2281 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2282 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2283 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2285 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2287 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2288 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2289 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2291 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2293 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2294 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2296 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2298 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2299 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2300 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2301 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2303 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2305 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2306 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2307 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2308 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2310 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2312 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2313 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2314 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2316 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2318 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2319 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2320 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2322 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2324 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2325 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2326 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2327 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2328 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2330 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2332 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2333 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2334 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2335 the body part of the message.
2340 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2341 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2342 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2344 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2345 =========================
2347 Command-Line Interface
2348 ----------------------
2350 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2352 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2353 folder and notmuch index.
2355 `notmuch count --batch` option
2357 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2358 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2360 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2362 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2363 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2364 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2367 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2369 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2370 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2371 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2372 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2373 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2376 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2378 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2379 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2381 Top level option to specify configuration file
2383 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2384 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2386 Bash command-line completion
2388 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2389 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2390 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2391 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2392 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2393 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2394 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2395 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2396 bash-completion package.
2398 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2403 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2405 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2406 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2407 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2408 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2409 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2410 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2411 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2412 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2414 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2416 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2417 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2418 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2420 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2422 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2423 previous thread in the search results.
2425 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2427 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2428 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2430 Faster search and show
2432 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2433 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2434 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2435 threads should show faster.
2439 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2440 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2441 in question was now removed from this release.
2446 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2447 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2452 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2454 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2455 ===========================
2460 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2462 Internal test framework changes
2463 -------------------------------
2465 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2466 being unimplemented.
2468 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2469 ===========================
2471 Internal test framework changes
2472 -------------------------------
2474 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2475 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2477 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2478 =========================
2483 Date range search support
2485 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2486 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2487 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2488 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2489 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2492 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2494 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2495 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2496 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2497 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2498 but may be removed in a future release.
2500 Command-Line Interface
2501 ----------------------
2503 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2505 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2506 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2508 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2510 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2511 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2512 officially deprecated.
2514 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2516 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2517 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2518 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2520 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2522 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2523 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2526 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2527 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2528 dump/restore format.
2530 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2532 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2533 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2534 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2536 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2538 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2539 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2540 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2542 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2544 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2545 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2546 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2547 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2552 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2554 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2555 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2556 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2557 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2559 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2561 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2562 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2563 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2564 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2565 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2566 the behavior of this, see
2567 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2568 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2570 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2571 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2572 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2574 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2576 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2577 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2580 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2582 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2583 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2584 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2585 simply displayed in place of the message.
2587 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2589 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2590 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2592 Improved text/calendar content handling
2594 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2595 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2596 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2597 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2599 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2601 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2602 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2603 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2604 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2606 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2608 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2609 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2610 for HTML email containing images.
2612 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2614 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2616 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2618 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2621 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2623 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2624 the point where it was.
2626 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2628 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2629 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2630 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2631 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2632 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2634 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2636 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2637 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2638 thread instead of the message id.
2640 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2641 -----------------------------
2643 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2644 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2645 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2646 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2647 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2648 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2649 further details and installation.
2654 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2656 Internal test framework changes
2657 -------------------------------
2659 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2661 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2662 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2663 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2664 can result in buggy behavior.
2666 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2667 =========================
2672 Maildir tag synchronization
2674 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2675 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2676 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2677 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2678 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2679 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2682 Command-Line Interface
2683 ----------------------
2685 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2686 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2687 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2688 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2689 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2695 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2697 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2699 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2700 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2701 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2703 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2705 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2706 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2707 span multiple lines.
2709 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2711 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2712 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2713 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2714 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2715 inside the result or message.
2717 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2719 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2720 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2722 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2723 user-specified formatting
2725 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2726 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2727 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2728 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2729 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2731 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2732 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2734 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2735 ===========================
2740 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2741 compilation error for this contrib package.
2743 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2744 ===========================
2749 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2751 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2752 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2753 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2754 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2756 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2757 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2760 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2761 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2762 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2763 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2766 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2768 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2771 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2772 =========================
2774 Command-Line Interface
2775 ----------------------
2779 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2780 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2781 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2782 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2784 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2785 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2786 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2787 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2791 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2792 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2794 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2795 tag in your query, for example:
2797 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2799 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2800 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2802 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2803 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2805 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2807 Raw show format changes
2809 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2810 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2811 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2812 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2813 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2814 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2815 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2816 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2818 Listing configuration items
2820 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2826 Changes to tagging interface
2828 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2829 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2830 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2831 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2832 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2833 for more information.
2835 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2836 may need to update in custom configurations.
2838 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2840 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2841 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2842 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2843 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2846 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2847 -----------------------------
2849 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2850 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2851 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2852 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2853 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2854 contrib/ from now on.
2859 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2860 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2862 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2863 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2865 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2866 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2867 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2869 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2870 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2872 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2873 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2874 returning the new database object or directory object.
2881 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2882 compatible with go 1.
2884 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2885 =========================
2887 Command-Line Interface
2888 ----------------------
2892 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2893 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2894 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2895 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2897 Mail store folder/file ignore
2899 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2900 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2901 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2903 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2904 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2906 Unified help and manual pages
2908 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2909 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2912 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2914 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2915 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2923 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2924 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2925 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2926 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2928 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2930 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2931 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2933 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2936 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2937 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2938 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2940 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2942 should be changed to:
2944 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2946 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2948 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2949 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2951 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2953 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2954 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2955 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2956 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2957 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2958 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2962 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2963 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2964 of Mailing List Archives.
2966 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2968 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2969 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2972 Show view archiving key binding changes
2974 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2975 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2976 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2977 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2978 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2981 Support text/calendar MIME type
2983 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2986 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2988 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2989 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2990 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2991 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2993 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2995 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2996 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2997 messages blue by default in the search view.
3001 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3002 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3009 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3012 Python bindings changes
3013 -----------------------
3015 Python 3.2 compatibility
3017 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3019 Added missing unicode conversions
3021 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3022 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3023 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3028 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3030 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3031 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3032 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3033 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3034 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3036 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3037 ===========================
3042 Fix error handling in python bindings
3044 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3045 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3046 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3047 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3049 Quote MML tags in replies
3051 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3052 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3053 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3054 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3055 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3056 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3057 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3058 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3060 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3061 =========================
3063 Command-Line Interface
3064 ----------------------
3068 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3069 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3070 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3071 importing new messages into the database.
3073 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3075 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3076 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3077 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3082 Automatic tag query optimization
3084 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3085 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3086 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3088 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3090 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3091 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3092 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3097 Reduction of memory leaks
3099 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3100 and fixed in this release.
3107 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3108 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3109 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3112 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3114 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3115 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3116 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3119 Improvements in saved search management
3121 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3122 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3123 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3125 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3127 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3128 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3129 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3131 New face for crypto parts headers
3133 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3134 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3135 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3138 Use space as default thousands separator
3140 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3141 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3142 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3144 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3145 buttonized id: links
3147 New function notmuch-show-advance
3149 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3150 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3151 be bound to SPC with:
3153 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3155 Various performance improvements
3160 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3161 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3164 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3165 ===========================
3170 Fix crash in python bindings
3172 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3173 for some, but not all users.
3175 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3176 ===========================
3181 Fix `--help` argument
3183 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3184 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3185 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3187 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3188 =========================
3190 New build and testing features
3191 ------------------------------
3193 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3194 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3195 prerequisites is improved.
3197 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3199 New command-line features
3200 -------------------------
3202 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3204 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3205 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3208 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3210 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3211 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3212 favour of using stdout.
3214 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3216 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3217 limit the number of results shown.
3219 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3221 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3222 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3225 New emacs UI features
3226 ---------------------
3228 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3230 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3231 starting with "tag:".
3233 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3235 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3236 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3238 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3240 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3242 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3244 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3245 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3250 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3252 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3254 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3255 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3256 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3257 requires a database rebuild:
3259 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3260 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3262 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3264 New collection of add-on tools
3265 ------------------------------
3267 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3268 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3269 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3272 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3274 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3275 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3276 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3278 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3279 ========================
3281 New, general features
3282 ---------------------
3284 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3286 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3287 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3288 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3289 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3290 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3297 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3298 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3300 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3304 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3305 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3306 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3309 Python bindings changes
3310 -----------------------
3312 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3314 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3315 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3316 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3317 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3318 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3319 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3321 Ruby bindings changes
3322 ---------------------
3324 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3325 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3326 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3327 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3332 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3334 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3335 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3337 Reply formatting cleanup
3338 ------------------------
3340 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3341 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3343 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3344 ========================
3346 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3348 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3349 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3350 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3351 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3354 Improved Build system portability
3356 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3357 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3358 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3360 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3362 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3364 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3366 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3367 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3368 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3370 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3371 ========================
3373 Vim interface improvements
3374 --------------------------
3376 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3378 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3379 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3380 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3381 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3382 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3384 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3386 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3387 * fix compose temp file name
3389 Python Bindings changes
3390 -----------------------
3392 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3394 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3395 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3397 Build-System improvements
3398 -------------------------
3400 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3402 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3405 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3406 ==========================
3411 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3413 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3414 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3416 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3417 =======================
3419 New, general features
3420 ---------------------
3422 Folder-based searching
3424 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3425 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3426 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3430 For example, one might use things such as:
3436 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3437 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3439 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3440 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3441 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3442 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3444 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3445 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3446 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3449 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3450 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3452 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3454 Support for PGP/MIME
3456 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3457 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3458 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3460 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3462 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3463 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3465 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3466 notmuch will receive these tags.
3468 New command-line features
3469 -------------------------
3471 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3473 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3474 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3476 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3478 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3479 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3480 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3482 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3484 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3485 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3486 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3487 which parts a signature part applies).
3489 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3491 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3492 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3493 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3494 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3495 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3498 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3500 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3501 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3502 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3503 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3504 by translating it internally to the new call.
3506 Performance improvements
3507 ------------------------
3509 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3511 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3512 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3513 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3515 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3516 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3518 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3520 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3521 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3522 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3524 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3525 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3526 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3527 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3529 Faster initial indexing
3531 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3532 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3533 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3535 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3537 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3538 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3539 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3540 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3542 New emacs-interface features
3543 ----------------------------
3545 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3547 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3548 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3549 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3550 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3551 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3552 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3554 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3556 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3557 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3558 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3559 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3561 User-selectable From address
3563 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3564 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3565 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3566 will prompt for the from address to use.
3568 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3569 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3570 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3572 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3573 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3574 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3577 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3579 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3580 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3582 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3584 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3586 ----- Original Message -----
3588 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3589 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3590 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3591 citations work much like conventional citations.
3593 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3595 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3596 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3597 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3598 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3599 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3601 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3602 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3604 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3606 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3607 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3608 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3610 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3612 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3613 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3614 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3615 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3616 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3618 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3620 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3623 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3625 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3627 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3629 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3632 Vim interface improvements
3633 --------------------------
3635 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3637 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3638 * Implementing archive in show view
3639 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3640 * Add delete commands
3643 Bindings improvements
3644 ---------------------
3646 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3648 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3649 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3651 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3653 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3657 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3658 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3659 `list(Messages)` works now
3660 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3662 These allow, for example:
3664 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3666 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3668 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3674 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3676 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3679 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3681 New build-system features
3682 -------------------------
3684 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3686 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3687 the configure script from some other directory:
3694 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3696 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3697 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3698 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3699 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3700 manual invocation of configure.
3702 New test-suite feature
3703 ----------------------
3705 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3707 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3708 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3709 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3710 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3711 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3714 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3716 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3717 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3718 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3719 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3720 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3721 are updated to take advantage of this.
3723 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3725 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3726 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3727 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3728 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3734 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3736 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3737 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3738 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3740 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3742 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3744 to:user@elsewhere.com
3746 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3748 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3750 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3752 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3753 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3754 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3757 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3758 from the Received headers in some cases
3760 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3761 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3763 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3765 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3767 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3769 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3770 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3771 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3773 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3774 -------------------------
3776 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3778 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3779 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3780 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3782 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3784 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3785 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3786 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3789 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3791 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3792 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3793 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3794 fixed to avoid this bug.
3796 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3798 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3799 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3801 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3802 ========================
3804 New, general features
3805 ---------------------
3807 Maildir-flag synchronization
3809 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3810 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3819 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3821 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3822 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3823 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3824 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3826 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3827 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3828 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3829 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3832 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3834 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3835 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3836 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3838 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3839 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3841 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3842 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3844 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3845 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3846 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3848 New library features
3849 --------------------
3851 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3853 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3854 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3855 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3856 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3858 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3859 message with the new function:
3861 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3863 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3864 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3865 over all available filenames for a given message.
3867 New command-line features
3868 -------------------------
3870 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3872 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3873 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3874 access to the mail store itself.
3876 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3877 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3878 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3879 name of a script containing:
3881 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3883 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3884 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3890 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3892 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3894 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3896 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3897 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3898 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3899 now produces nothing).
3901 Emacs interface improvements
3902 ----------------------------
3904 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3906 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3908 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3910 Display current thread subject in a header line
3912 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3914 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3916 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3917 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3918 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3919 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3920 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3921 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3922 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3924 Vim interface improvements
3925 --------------------------
3927 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3929 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3930 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3936 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3938 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3939 ========================
3941 New command-line features
3942 -------------------------
3944 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3946 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3947 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3948 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3950 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3951 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3952 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3953 scripts. For example:
3955 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3956 <operations-on> "$file"
3959 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3961 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3962 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3963 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3964 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3965 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3966 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3968 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3970 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3971 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3972 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3973 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3975 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3977 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3978 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3979 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3980 default rather than Bcc.
3982 New library features
3983 --------------------
3985 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3987 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3988 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3993 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3995 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3996 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3997 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3998 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3999 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4000 notmuch customize interface.
4002 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4004 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4005 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4006 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4007 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4009 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4011 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4012 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4013 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4014 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4016 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4018 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4019 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4020 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4021 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4022 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4023 notmuch customize interface.
4025 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4027 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4028 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4029 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4030 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4031 notmuch customize interface.
4033 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4035 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4036 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4037 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4038 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4041 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4043 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4044 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4045 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4048 New build-system features
4049 -------------------------
4051 Various portability fixes have been applied
4053 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4054 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4055 more portable than ever before.
4057 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4059 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4060 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4061 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4063 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4064 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4065 automatically run ldconfig.
4067 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4068 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4069 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4071 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4072 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4073 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4074 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4076 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4078 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4079 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4080 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4081 used in the resulting Makefile.
4083 New test-suite features
4084 -----------------------
4086 New modularization of test suite
4088 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4089 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4090 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4091 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4092 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4093 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4094 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4095 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4097 New testing of emacs interface
4099 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4100 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4101 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4102 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4103 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4104 database via the FCC setting.
4109 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4111 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4112 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4113 persistent error of the form:
4115 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4117 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4118 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4120 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4122 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4123 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4124 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4126 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4128 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4129 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4130 parsing the notmuch results).
4132 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4134 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4137 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4138 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4139 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4144 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4146 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4147 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4148 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4149 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4150 the emacs interface.
4152 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4154 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4155 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4156 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4158 Python-binding fixes
4159 --------------------
4161 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4163 Debian-specific fixes
4164 ---------------------
4166 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4168 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4169 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4170 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4173 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4174 ==========================
4179 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4181 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4182 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4183 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4184 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4186 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4188 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4189 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4190 want notmuch to crash.
4195 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4197 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4198 directory does not exist
4203 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4205 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4206 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4208 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4209 ========================
4211 New command-line features
4212 -------------------------
4214 User-configurable tags for new messages
4216 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4217 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4218 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4219 to specify this value.
4221 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4223 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4224 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4225 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4227 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4229 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4230 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4232 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4234 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4235 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4236 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4237 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4238 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4241 Indication of author names that match a search
4243 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4244 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4245 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4246 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4247 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4248 messages in the thread are listed first.
4250 New: Python bindings
4251 --------------------
4253 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4254 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4255 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4256 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4258 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4259 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4260 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4263 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4264 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4265 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4267 Emacs interface improvements
4268 ----------------------------
4270 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4272 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4273 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4274 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4275 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4276 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4277 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4278 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4279 but without any of the disadvantages).
4281 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4282 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4283 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4286 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4287 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4288 instead running something like:
4290 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4292 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4293 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4294 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4297 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4299 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4300 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4301 tweaked by the user.
4303 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4304 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4305 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4308 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4309 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4310 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4313 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4315 This support currently relies on an external program,
4316 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4317 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4318 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4319 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4320 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4323 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4324 notmuch) is available via:
4326 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4328 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4329 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4330 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4332 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4334 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4335 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4336 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4337 making this automatic in a future release.
4339 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4341 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4342 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4343 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4344 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4345 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4346 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4349 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4351 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4352 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4353 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4355 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4357 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4358 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4359 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4361 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4362 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4363 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4364 other representation.
4366 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4367 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4370 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4372 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4373 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4374 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4376 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4377 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4378 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4380 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4382 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4383 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4384 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4385 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4386 to display the search result.
4388 More flexible handling of header visibility
4390 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4391 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4392 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4393 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4394 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4395 with the 'h' keybinding.
4397 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4398 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4399 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4401 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4403 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4405 Customizable formatting of search results
4407 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4408 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4409 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4411 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4413 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4415 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4420 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4422 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4423 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4424 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4425 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4431 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4433 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4434 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4436 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4438 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4439 accept are now all accepted.
4444 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4446 Better display of output from failed tests
4448 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4449 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4451 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4452 ========================
4454 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4455 detailed release notes this time!
4457 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4458 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4460 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4461 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4462 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4463 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4470 Better guessing of From: header
4472 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4473 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4474 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4475 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4476 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4479 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4481 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4482 guaranteed to match all messages.
4484 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4486 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4487 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4488 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4489 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4490 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4493 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4496 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4497 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4498 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4499 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4504 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4506 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4507 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4508 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4509 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4511 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4513 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4515 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4516 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4517 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4519 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4521 Previously, the user might see:
4523 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4527 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4529 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4530 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4531 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4532 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4534 Emacs client features
4535 ---------------------
4537 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4539 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4540 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4541 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4542 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4543 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4545 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4548 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4549 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4550 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4551 search with the '*' binding.
4553 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4555 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4556 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4559 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4561 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4562 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4563 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4565 Build-system features
4566 ---------------------
4568 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4570 Add support to configure for many standard options
4572 We include actual support for:
4574 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4576 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4578 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4579 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4581 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4582 separate "make install-emacs"
4584 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4586 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4587 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4588 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4590 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4593 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4594 ========================
4596 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4598 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4599 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4601 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4602 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4603 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4604 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4605 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4606 tags from messages in a thread.
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