1 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-26)
6 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
11 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
13 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
14 ===========================
19 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
21 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
22 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
23 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
25 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
27 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
29 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
30 ===========================
35 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
37 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
42 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
44 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
45 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
48 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
49 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
51 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
53 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
54 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
55 bug, and hence the test.
57 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
58 =========================
63 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
65 Support for single argument date: queries
67 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
69 Support for blocking opens
71 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
72 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
74 Support for named queries
76 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
77 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
78 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
85 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
86 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
87 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
88 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
90 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
92 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
97 Support for compile time options
99 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
100 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
103 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
105 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
106 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
107 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
108 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
109 scripts to ignore it.
114 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
116 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
117 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
118 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
120 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
121 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
122 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
123 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
124 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
125 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
126 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
128 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
129 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
132 Make internal address completion customizable
134 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
135 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
136 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
137 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
140 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
142 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
143 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
144 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
145 completion for the current buffer.
147 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
148 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
149 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
153 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
154 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
155 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
156 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
157 will be added instead.
159 Face customization is easier
161 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
162 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
163 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
164 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
166 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
171 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
176 Go bindings moved to contrib
178 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
180 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
182 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
183 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
185 The same issue occured with sort modes.
187 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
188 ===========================
195 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
196 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
198 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
200 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
202 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
203 ===========================
208 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
210 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
215 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
220 Use `env` to locate perl.
225 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
227 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
229 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
231 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
233 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
234 =========================
241 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
242 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
244 Limited support for S/MIME messages
246 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
247 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
248 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
253 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
254 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
255 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
257 Command Line Interface
258 ----------------------
260 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
262 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
267 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
272 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
274 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
275 parts are now included in replies.
277 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
278 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
279 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
280 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
282 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
284 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
286 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
288 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
289 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
290 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
291 forwards only the current message.
293 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
295 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
296 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
297 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
298 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
299 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
300 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
301 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
302 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
305 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
306 longer generate empty buffers
308 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
309 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
310 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
311 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
312 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
314 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
316 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
319 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
321 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
324 Address completion improvements
326 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
327 you previously configured one, customize the variable
328 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
329 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
330 interactive address completion.
332 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
334 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
335 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
336 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
341 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
342 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
343 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
349 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
350 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
351 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
352 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
353 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
354 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
356 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
357 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
358 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
359 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
360 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
361 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
363 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
364 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
366 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
367 =========================
372 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
375 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
377 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
378 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
379 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
381 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
382 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
384 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
385 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
386 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
388 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
390 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
391 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
392 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
393 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
394 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
395 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
400 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
401 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
404 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
407 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
409 Command Line Interface
410 ----------------------
412 Database revision tracking
414 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
415 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
416 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
417 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
419 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
421 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
422 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
423 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
424 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
425 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
426 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
427 manual page for further information.
432 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
434 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
435 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
437 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
439 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
440 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
441 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
443 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
445 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
447 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
448 customization as well.
450 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
452 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
454 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
456 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
458 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
459 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
460 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
461 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
463 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
465 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
466 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
467 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
468 this variable to 10000.
473 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
474 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
476 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
478 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
479 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
480 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
481 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
482 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
483 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
484 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
485 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
486 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
489 Database revision tracking
491 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
492 query parser and the new function
493 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
495 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
499 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
500 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
501 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
502 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
507 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
509 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
510 ===========================
515 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
517 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
518 ===========================
523 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
525 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
526 =========================
528 Command-Line Interface
529 ----------------------
531 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
533 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
534 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
535 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
537 Path to gpg is now configurable
539 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
540 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
545 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
547 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
552 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
557 Support messages without Message-IDs.
562 Undeprecate single message mboxes
564 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
565 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
567 New error logging facility
569 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
570 output formerly printed to stderr.
572 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
574 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
576 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
578 Fix for rounding of seconds
583 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
585 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
586 docmumentation has been removed.
588 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
590 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
591 some material from the relicensed wiki.
596 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
597 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
598 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
603 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
604 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
605 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
606 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
607 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
608 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
611 git checkout config origin/config
613 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
615 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
616 =========================
621 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
622 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
623 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
624 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
625 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
626 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
627 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
629 Command-Line Interface
630 ----------------------
632 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
634 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
635 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
636 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
637 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
638 script callers should still check the return value.
640 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
642 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
643 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
644 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
645 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
646 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
647 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
648 and returning success even if indexing fails).
650 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
652 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
653 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
654 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
656 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
658 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
659 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
660 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
661 currently unmaintained.
663 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
665 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
666 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
667 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
668 have at least `N` files associated with them.
670 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
672 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
673 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
674 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
675 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
676 count of duplicate addresses.
681 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
683 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
684 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
685 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
688 Improved handling of the unread tag
690 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
691 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
692 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
693 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
694 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
695 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
696 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
698 Expanded default saved search settings
700 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
701 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
703 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
705 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
706 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
707 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
709 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
711 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
712 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
713 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
714 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
715 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
716 the variable for details.
721 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
723 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
724 Representing these independently of the database version number will
725 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
726 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
728 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
730 Previously, library users were required to call
731 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
732 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
733 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
734 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
735 too out of date for that API.
737 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
739 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
740 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
741 atomic section will be aborted.
743 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
744 `notmuch_database_destroy`
746 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
748 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
749 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
750 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
751 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
752 messages into the same thread.
757 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
758 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
759 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
760 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
761 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
762 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
767 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
768 from the config file. Use something like:
772 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
773 "footer": "</body></html>",
782 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
787 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
788 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
789 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
791 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
792 ===========================
797 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
799 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
801 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
803 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
804 structure for signatures changed slightly.
806 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
808 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
811 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
812 ===========================
814 This is a bug fix and portability release.
819 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
821 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
823 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
825 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
827 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
833 Use --quick when starting emacs
835 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
837 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
839 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
841 Command-Line Interface
842 ----------------------
844 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
845 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
850 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
852 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
853 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
855 Fix for phrase indexing
857 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
858 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
859 will affect only newly indexed messages.
864 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
866 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
867 unintentionally removed.
869 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
870 =========================
875 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
876 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
877 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
878 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
879 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
880 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
881 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
882 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
883 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
889 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
891 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
892 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
893 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
894 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
895 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
896 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
897 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
898 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
900 There is a new `path:` search prefix
902 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
903 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
904 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
905 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
908 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
910 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
911 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
912 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
913 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
914 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
915 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
916 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
921 Notmuch database upgrade
923 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
924 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
925 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
926 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
927 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
928 released version of Notmuch before now.
930 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
932 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
933 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
934 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
935 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
937 Message header parsing changes
939 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
940 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
941 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
942 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
943 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
944 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
946 Command-Line Interface
947 ----------------------
949 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
951 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
953 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
955 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
957 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
959 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
960 user does not want it.
962 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
964 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
965 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
966 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
967 support formatted output.
969 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
971 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
972 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
973 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
981 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
982 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
983 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
984 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
985 `~/.emacs` with these.
987 Changed format for saved searches
989 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
990 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
991 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
992 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
995 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
996 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
997 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
998 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1000 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1001 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1002 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1004 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1005 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1006 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1007 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1008 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1010 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1012 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1013 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1014 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1016 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1018 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1019 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1020 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1021 message had been unread).
1023 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1024 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1025 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1026 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1028 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1029 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1030 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1032 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1033 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1034 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1035 to tags already present.
1039 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1040 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1041 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1042 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1043 these differ from each other.
1044 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1046 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1048 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1049 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1050 for these Emacs versions.
1052 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1054 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1055 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1057 Bug fixes for sender identities
1059 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1060 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1061 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1063 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1065 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1066 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1067 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1068 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1070 Reply pushes mark before signature
1072 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1073 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1074 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1076 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1078 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1079 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1085 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1086 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1088 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1089 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1090 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1091 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1093 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1094 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1095 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1096 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1097 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1099 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1101 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1102 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1104 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1105 =========================
1107 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1108 ---------------------------------------
1110 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1111 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1112 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1113 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1114 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1115 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1116 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1120 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1121 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1123 Command-Line Interface
1124 ----------------------
1126 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1128 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1129 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1130 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1131 print for each message.
1133 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1134 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1135 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1136 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1138 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1140 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1141 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1142 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1144 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1146 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1147 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1148 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1149 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1151 `notmuch compact` command
1153 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1154 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1155 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1156 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1157 move the compacted database into place.
1162 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1164 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1165 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1166 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1167 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1168 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1169 and multiple threads.
1171 Using `notmuch-tree`
1173 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1175 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1176 search, show and tree mode itself)
1178 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1181 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1182 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1184 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1186 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1187 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1188 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1189 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1190 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1191 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1192 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1194 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1196 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1197 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1198 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1199 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1200 thread when the search was performed.
1202 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1204 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1205 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1206 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1208 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1210 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1211 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1214 Built-in help improvements
1216 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1217 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1218 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1220 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1222 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1223 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1224 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1226 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1228 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1229 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1231 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1233 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1234 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1235 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1236 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1238 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1240 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1241 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1242 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1243 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1245 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1247 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1248 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1249 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1251 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1253 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1254 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1255 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1257 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1259 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1260 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1261 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1262 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1263 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1265 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1267 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1268 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1269 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1270 the body part of the message.
1275 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1276 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1277 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1279 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1280 =========================
1282 Command-Line Interface
1283 ----------------------
1285 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1287 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1288 folder and notmuch index.
1290 `notmuch count --batch` option
1292 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1293 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1295 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1297 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1298 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1299 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1302 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1304 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1305 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1306 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1307 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1308 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1311 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1313 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1314 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1316 Top level option to specify configuration file
1318 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1319 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1321 Bash command-line completion
1323 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1324 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1325 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1326 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1327 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1328 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1329 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1330 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1331 bash-completion package.
1333 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1338 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1340 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1341 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1342 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1343 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1344 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1345 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1346 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1347 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1349 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1351 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1352 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1353 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1355 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1357 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1358 previous thread in the search results.
1360 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1362 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1363 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1365 Faster search and show
1367 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1368 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1369 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1370 threads should show faster.
1374 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1375 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1376 in question was now removed from this release.
1381 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1382 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1387 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1389 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1390 ===========================
1395 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1397 Internal test framework changes
1398 -------------------------------
1400 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1401 being unimplemented.
1403 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1404 ===========================
1406 Internal test framework changes
1407 -------------------------------
1409 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1410 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1412 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1413 =========================
1418 Date range search support
1420 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1421 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1422 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1423 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1424 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1427 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1429 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1430 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1431 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1432 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1433 but may be removed in a future release.
1435 Command-Line Interface
1436 ----------------------
1438 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1440 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1441 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1443 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1445 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1446 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1447 officially deprecated.
1449 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1451 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1452 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1453 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1455 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1457 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1458 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1461 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1462 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1463 dump/restore format.
1465 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1467 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1468 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1469 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1471 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1473 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1474 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1475 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1477 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1479 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1480 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1481 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1482 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1487 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1489 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1490 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1491 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1492 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1494 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1496 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1497 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1498 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1499 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1500 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1501 the behavior of this, see
1502 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1503 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1505 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1506 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1507 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1509 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1511 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1512 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1515 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1517 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1518 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1519 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1520 simply displayed in place of the message.
1522 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1524 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1525 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1527 Improved text/calendar content handling
1529 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1530 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1531 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1532 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1534 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1536 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1537 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1538 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1539 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1541 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1543 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1544 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1545 for HTML email containing images.
1547 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1549 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1551 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1553 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1556 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1558 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1559 the point where it was.
1561 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1563 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1564 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1565 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1566 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1567 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1569 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1571 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1572 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1573 thread instead of the message id.
1575 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1576 -----------------------------
1578 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1579 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1580 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1581 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1582 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1583 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1584 further details and installation.
1589 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1591 Internal test framework changes
1592 -------------------------------
1594 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1596 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1597 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1598 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1599 can result in buggy behavior.
1601 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1602 =========================
1607 Maildir tag synchronization
1609 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1610 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1611 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1612 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1613 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1614 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1617 Command-Line Interface
1618 ----------------------
1620 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1621 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1622 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1623 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1624 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1630 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1632 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1634 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1635 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1636 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1638 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1640 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1641 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1642 span multiple lines.
1644 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1646 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1647 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1648 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1649 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1650 inside the result or message.
1652 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1654 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1655 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1657 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1658 user-specified formatting
1660 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1661 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1662 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1663 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1664 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1666 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1667 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1669 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1670 ===========================
1675 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1676 compilation error for this contrib package.
1678 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1679 ===========================
1684 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1686 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1687 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1688 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1689 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1691 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1692 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1695 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1696 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1697 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1698 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1701 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1703 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1706 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1707 =========================
1709 Command-Line Interface
1710 ----------------------
1714 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1715 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1716 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1717 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1719 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1720 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1721 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1722 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1726 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1727 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1729 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1730 tag in your query, for example:
1732 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1734 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1735 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1737 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1738 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1740 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1742 Raw show format changes
1744 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1745 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1746 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1747 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1748 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1749 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1750 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1751 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1753 Listing configuration items
1755 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1761 Changes to tagging interface
1763 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1764 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1765 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1766 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1767 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1768 for more information.
1770 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1771 may need to update in custom configurations.
1773 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1775 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1776 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1777 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1778 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1781 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1782 -----------------------------
1784 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1785 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1786 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1787 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1788 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1789 contrib/ from now on.
1794 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1795 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1797 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1798 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1800 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1801 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1802 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1804 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1805 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1807 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1808 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1809 returning the new database object or directory object.
1816 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1817 compatible with go 1.
1819 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1820 =========================
1822 Command-Line Interface
1823 ----------------------
1827 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1828 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1829 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1830 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1832 Mail store folder/file ignore
1834 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1835 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1836 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1838 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1839 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1841 Unified help and manual pages
1843 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1844 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1847 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1849 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1850 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1858 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1859 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1860 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1861 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1863 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1865 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1866 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1868 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1871 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1872 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1873 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1875 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1877 should be changed to:
1879 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1881 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1883 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1884 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1886 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1888 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1889 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1890 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1891 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1892 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1893 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1897 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1898 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1899 of Mailing List Archives.
1901 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1903 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1904 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1907 Show view archiving key binding changes
1909 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1910 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1911 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1912 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1913 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1916 Support text/calendar MIME type
1918 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1921 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1923 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1924 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1925 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1926 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1928 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1930 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1931 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1932 messages blue by default in the search view.
1936 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1937 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1944 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1947 Python bindings changes
1948 -----------------------
1950 Python 3.2 compatibility
1952 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1954 Added missing unicode conversions
1956 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1957 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1958 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1963 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1965 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1966 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1967 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1968 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1969 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1971 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1972 ===========================
1977 Fix error handling in python bindings
1979 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1980 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1981 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1982 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1984 Quote MML tags in replies
1986 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1987 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1988 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1989 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1990 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1991 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1992 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1993 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1995 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1996 =========================
1998 Command-Line Interface
1999 ----------------------
2003 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2004 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2005 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2006 importing new messages into the database.
2008 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2010 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2011 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2012 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2017 Automatic tag query optimization
2019 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2020 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2021 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2023 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2025 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2026 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2027 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2032 Reduction of memory leaks
2034 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2035 and fixed in this release.
2042 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2043 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2044 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2047 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2049 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2050 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2051 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2054 Improvements in saved search management
2056 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2057 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2058 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2060 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2062 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2063 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2064 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2066 New face for crypto parts headers
2068 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2069 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2070 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2073 Use space as default thousands separator
2075 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2076 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2077 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2079 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2080 buttonized id: links
2082 New function notmuch-show-advance
2084 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2085 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2086 be bound to SPC with:
2088 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2090 Various performance improvements
2095 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2096 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2099 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2100 ===========================
2105 Fix crash in python bindings
2107 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2108 for some, but not all users.
2110 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2111 ===========================
2116 Fix `--help` argument
2118 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2119 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2120 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2122 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2123 =========================
2125 New build and testing features
2126 ------------------------------
2128 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2129 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2130 prerequisites is improved.
2132 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2134 New command-line features
2135 -------------------------
2137 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2139 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2140 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2143 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2145 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2146 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2147 favour of using stdout.
2149 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2151 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2152 limit the number of results shown.
2154 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2156 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2157 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2160 New emacs UI features
2161 ---------------------
2163 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2165 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2166 starting with "tag:".
2168 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2170 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2171 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2173 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2175 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2177 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2179 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2180 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2185 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2187 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2189 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2190 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2191 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2192 requires a database rebuild:
2194 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2195 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2197 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2199 New collection of add-on tools
2200 ------------------------------
2202 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2203 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2204 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2207 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2209 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2210 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2211 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2213 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2214 ========================
2216 New, general features
2217 ---------------------
2219 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2221 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2222 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2223 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2224 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2225 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2232 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2233 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2235 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2239 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2240 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2241 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2244 Python bindings changes
2245 -----------------------
2247 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2249 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2250 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2251 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2252 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2253 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2254 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2256 Ruby bindings changes
2257 ---------------------
2259 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2260 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2261 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2262 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2267 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2269 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2270 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2272 Reply formatting cleanup
2273 ------------------------
2275 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2276 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2278 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2279 ========================
2281 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2283 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2284 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2285 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2286 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2289 Improved Build system portability
2291 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2292 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2293 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2295 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2297 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2299 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2301 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2302 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2303 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2305 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2306 ========================
2308 Vim interface improvements
2309 --------------------------
2311 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2313 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2314 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2315 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2316 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2317 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2319 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2321 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2322 * fix compose temp file name
2324 Python Bindings changes
2325 -----------------------
2327 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2329 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2330 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2332 Build-System improvements
2333 -------------------------
2335 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2337 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2340 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2341 ==========================
2346 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2348 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2349 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2351 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2352 =======================
2354 New, general features
2355 ---------------------
2357 Folder-based searching
2359 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2360 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2361 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2365 For example, one might use things such as:
2371 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2372 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2374 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2375 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2376 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2377 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2379 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2380 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2381 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2384 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2385 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2387 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2389 Support for PGP/MIME
2391 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2392 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2393 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2395 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2397 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2398 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2400 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2401 notmuch will receive these tags.
2403 New command-line features
2404 -------------------------
2406 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2408 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2409 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2411 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2413 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2414 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2415 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2417 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2419 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2420 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2421 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2422 which parts a signature part applies).
2424 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2426 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2427 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2428 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2429 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2430 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2433 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2435 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2436 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2437 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2438 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2439 by translating it internally to the new call.
2441 Performance improvements
2442 ------------------------
2444 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2446 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2447 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2448 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2450 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2451 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2453 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2455 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2456 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2457 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2459 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2460 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2461 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2462 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2464 Faster initial indexing
2466 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2467 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2468 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2470 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2472 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2473 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2474 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2475 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2477 New emacs-interface features
2478 ----------------------------
2480 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2482 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2483 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2484 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2485 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2486 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2487 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2489 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2491 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2492 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2493 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2494 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2496 User-selectable From address
2498 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2499 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2500 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2501 will prompt for the from address to use.
2503 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2504 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2505 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2507 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2508 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2509 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2512 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2514 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2515 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2517 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2519 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2521 ----- Original Message -----
2523 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2524 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2525 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2526 citations work much like conventional citations.
2528 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2530 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2531 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2532 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2533 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2534 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2536 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2537 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2539 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2541 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2542 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2543 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2545 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2547 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2548 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2549 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2550 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2551 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2553 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2555 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2558 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2560 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2562 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2564 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2567 Vim interface improvements
2568 --------------------------
2570 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2572 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2573 * Implementing archive in show view
2574 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2575 * Add delete commands
2578 Bindings improvements
2579 ---------------------
2581 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2583 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2584 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2586 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2588 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2592 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2593 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2594 `list(Messages)` works now
2595 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2597 These allow, for example:
2599 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2601 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2603 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2609 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2611 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2614 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2616 New build-system features
2617 -------------------------
2619 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2621 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2622 the configure script from some other directory:
2629 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2631 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2632 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2633 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2634 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2635 manual invocation of configure.
2637 New test-suite feature
2638 ----------------------
2640 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2642 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2643 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2644 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2645 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2646 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2649 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2651 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2652 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2653 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2654 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2655 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2656 are updated to take advantage of this.
2658 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2660 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2661 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2662 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2663 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2669 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2671 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2672 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2673 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2675 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2677 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2679 to:user@elsewhere.com
2681 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2683 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2685 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2687 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2688 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2689 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2692 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2693 from the Received headers in some cases
2695 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2696 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2698 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2700 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2702 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2704 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2705 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2706 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2708 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2709 -------------------------
2711 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2713 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2714 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2715 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2717 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2719 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2720 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2721 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2724 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2726 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2727 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2728 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2729 fixed to avoid this bug.
2731 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2733 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2734 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2736 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2737 ========================
2739 New, general features
2740 ---------------------
2742 Maildir-flag synchronization
2744 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2745 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2754 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2756 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2757 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2758 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2759 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2761 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2762 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2763 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2764 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2767 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2769 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2770 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2771 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2773 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2774 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2776 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2777 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2779 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2780 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2781 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2783 New library features
2784 --------------------
2786 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2788 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2789 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2790 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2791 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2793 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2794 message with the new function:
2796 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2798 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2799 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2800 over all available filenames for a given message.
2802 New command-line features
2803 -------------------------
2805 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2807 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2808 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2809 access to the mail store itself.
2811 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2812 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2813 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2814 name of a script containing:
2816 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2818 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2819 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2825 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2827 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2829 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2831 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2832 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2833 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2834 now produces nothing).
2836 Emacs interface improvements
2837 ----------------------------
2839 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2841 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2843 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2845 Display current thread subject in a header line
2847 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2849 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2851 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2852 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2853 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2854 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2855 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2856 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2857 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2859 Vim interface improvements
2860 --------------------------
2862 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2864 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2865 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2871 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2873 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2874 ========================
2876 New command-line features
2877 -------------------------
2879 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2881 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2882 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2883 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2885 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2886 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2887 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2888 scripts. For example:
2890 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2891 <operations-on> "$file"
2894 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2896 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2897 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2898 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2899 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2900 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2901 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2903 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2905 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2906 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2907 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2908 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2910 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2912 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2913 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2914 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2915 default rather than Bcc.
2917 New library features
2918 --------------------
2920 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2922 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2923 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2928 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2930 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2931 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2932 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2933 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2934 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2935 notmuch customize interface.
2937 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2939 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2940 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2941 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2942 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2944 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2946 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2947 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2948 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2949 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2951 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2953 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2954 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2955 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2956 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2957 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2958 notmuch customize interface.
2960 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2962 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2963 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2964 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2965 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2966 notmuch customize interface.
2968 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2970 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2971 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2972 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2973 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2976 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2978 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2979 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2980 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2983 New build-system features
2984 -------------------------
2986 Various portability fixes have been applied
2988 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2989 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2990 more portable than ever before.
2992 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2994 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2995 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2996 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2998 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2999 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3000 automatically run ldconfig.
3002 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3003 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3004 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3006 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3007 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3008 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3009 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3011 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3013 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3014 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3015 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3016 used in the resulting Makefile.
3018 New test-suite features
3019 -----------------------
3021 New modularization of test suite
3023 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3024 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3025 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3026 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3027 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3028 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3029 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3030 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3032 New testing of emacs interface
3034 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3035 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3036 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3037 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3038 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3039 database via the FCC setting.
3044 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3046 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3047 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3048 persistent error of the form:
3050 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3052 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3053 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3055 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3057 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3058 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3059 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3061 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3063 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3064 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3065 parsing the notmuch results).
3067 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3069 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3072 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3073 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3074 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3079 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3081 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3082 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3083 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3084 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3085 the emacs interface.
3087 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3089 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3090 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3091 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3093 Python-binding fixes
3094 --------------------
3096 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3098 Debian-specific fixes
3099 ---------------------
3101 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3103 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3104 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3105 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3108 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3109 ==========================
3114 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3116 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3117 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3118 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3119 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3121 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3123 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3124 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3125 want notmuch to crash.
3130 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3132 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3133 directory does not exist
3138 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3140 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3141 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3143 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3144 ========================
3146 New command-line features
3147 -------------------------
3149 User-configurable tags for new messages
3151 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3152 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3153 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3154 to specify this value.
3156 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3158 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3159 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3160 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3162 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3164 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3165 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3167 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3169 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3170 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3171 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3172 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3173 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3176 Indication of author names that match a search
3178 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3179 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3180 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3181 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3182 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3183 messages in the thread are listed first.
3185 New: Python bindings
3186 --------------------
3188 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3189 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3190 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3191 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3193 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3194 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3195 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3198 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3199 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3200 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3202 Emacs interface improvements
3203 ----------------------------
3205 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3207 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3208 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3209 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3210 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3211 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3212 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3213 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3214 but without any of the disadvantages).
3216 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3217 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3218 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3221 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3222 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3223 instead running something like:
3225 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3227 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3228 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3229 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3232 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3234 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3235 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3236 tweaked by the user.
3238 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3239 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3240 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3243 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3244 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3245 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3248 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3250 This support currently relies on an external program,
3251 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3252 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3253 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3254 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3255 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3258 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3259 notmuch) is available via:
3261 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3263 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3264 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3265 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3267 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3269 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3270 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3271 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3272 making this automatic in a future release.
3274 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3276 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3277 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3278 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3279 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3280 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3281 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3284 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3286 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3287 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3288 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3290 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3292 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3293 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3294 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3296 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3297 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3298 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3299 other representation.
3301 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3302 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3305 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3307 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3308 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3309 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3311 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3312 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3313 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3315 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3317 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3318 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3319 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3320 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3321 to display the search result.
3323 More flexible handling of header visibility
3325 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3326 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3327 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3328 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3329 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3330 with the 'h' keybinding.
3332 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3333 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3334 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3336 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3338 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3340 Customizable formatting of search results
3342 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3343 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3344 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3346 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3348 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3350 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3355 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3357 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3358 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3359 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3360 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3366 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3368 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3369 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3371 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3373 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3374 accept are now all accepted.
3379 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3381 Better display of output from failed tests
3383 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3384 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3386 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3387 ========================
3389 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3390 detailed release notes this time!
3392 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3393 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3395 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3396 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3397 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3398 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3405 Better guessing of From: header
3407 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3408 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3409 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3410 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3411 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3414 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3416 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3417 guaranteed to match all messages.
3419 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3421 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3422 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3423 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3424 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3425 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3428 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3431 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3432 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3433 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3434 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3439 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3441 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3442 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3443 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3444 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3446 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3448 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3450 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3451 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3452 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3454 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3456 Previously, the user might see:
3458 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3462 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3464 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3465 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3466 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3467 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3469 Emacs client features
3470 ---------------------
3472 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3474 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3475 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3476 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3477 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3478 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3480 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3483 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3484 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3485 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3486 search with the '*' binding.
3488 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3490 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3491 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3494 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3496 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3497 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3498 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3500 Build-system features
3501 ---------------------
3503 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3505 Add support to configure for many standard options
3507 We include actual support for:
3509 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3511 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3513 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3514 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3516 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3517 separate "make install-emacs"
3519 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3521 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3522 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3523 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3525 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3528 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3529 ========================
3531 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3533 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3534 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3536 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3537 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3538 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3539 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3540 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3541 tags from messages in a thread.
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