1 Notmuch 0.35 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
9 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
11 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
12 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
14 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
16 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
21 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
24 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
26 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
27 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
32 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
34 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
37 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
38 third party completion frameworks.
40 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
42 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
44 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
45 signed and/or encrypted messages.
47 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
53 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
55 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
56 installed version of notmuch.
61 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
64 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
69 Add `matched` property to message objects.
71 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
72 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
75 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
76 ===========================
81 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
84 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
85 --------------------------
87 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
88 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
90 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
91 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
93 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
96 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
97 ===========================
102 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
103 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
104 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
106 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
107 --------------------------
109 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
110 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
112 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
113 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
114 and database location options as the library does.
116 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
118 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
119 ===========================
124 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
125 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
126 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
127 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
128 status returns for the same 3 functions.
130 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
131 =========================
136 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
137 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
138 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
139 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
140 s-expression query support.
145 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
150 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
152 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
154 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
156 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
158 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
159 ===========================
164 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
166 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
167 ===========================
172 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
173 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
176 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
177 =========================
182 Correct documentation about transactions.
184 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
185 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
187 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
192 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
198 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
199 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
200 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
202 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
204 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
206 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
208 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
210 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
212 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
215 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
220 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
221 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
222 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
223 split, following an old library API change.
228 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
233 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
235 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
237 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
238 ===========================
243 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
246 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
249 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
250 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
255 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
257 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
258 ===========================
263 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
269 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
274 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
279 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
284 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
285 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
287 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
288 ===========================
293 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
294 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
295 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
297 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
298 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
299 database in a pre-new hook.
301 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
302 default worked only in "notmuch config".
307 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
308 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
310 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
311 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
312 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
314 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
315 =========================
320 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
321 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
322 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
323 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
324 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
325 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
326 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
327 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
328 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
329 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
330 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
335 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
336 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
338 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
339 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
340 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
341 - `notmuch_config_get`
343 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
344 now exposed (and generalized).
346 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
347 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
348 session has been fixed.
350 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
351 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
356 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
357 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
359 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
360 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
365 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
366 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
367 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
368 when prompting for senders.
370 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
371 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
374 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
376 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
378 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
379 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
380 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
381 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
382 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
383 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
384 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
386 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
387 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
389 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
390 you should change it to:
391 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
393 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
394 ===========================
399 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
404 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
406 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
407 ===========================
412 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
417 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
422 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
424 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
425 ===========================
430 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
431 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
433 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
434 ===========================
439 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
444 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
445 with a C++ header for some compilers.
447 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
449 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
450 =========================
455 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
456 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
457 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
459 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
461 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
463 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
465 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
468 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
470 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
471 search, show and tree mode)
473 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
476 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
479 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
480 always be newest first.
485 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
486 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
487 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
493 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
494 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
495 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
496 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
498 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
499 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
500 non-status providing versions.
502 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
503 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
505 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
506 promised in the documentation.
511 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
512 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
513 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
518 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
519 development version).
524 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
529 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
531 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
532 =========================
537 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
538 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
539 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
542 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
548 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
549 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
550 notmuch-properties(7)).
555 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
556 has protected headers (see
557 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
558 notmuch-properties(7)).
563 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
565 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
566 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
572 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
575 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
576 ===========================
581 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
583 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
588 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
590 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
591 ===========================
596 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
597 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
599 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
600 ===========================
605 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
607 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
608 =========================
613 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
614 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
617 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
618 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
619 the set of headers to be indexed.
621 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
624 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
625 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
626 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
629 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
630 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
631 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
633 Command Line Interface
634 ----------------------
636 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
639 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
641 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
642 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
643 more details about what is included there. This status includes
644 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
649 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
650 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
652 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
654 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
656 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
658 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
660 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
663 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
665 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
666 and may be removed in a future release.
668 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
674 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
676 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
677 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
682 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
683 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
684 cryptography support.
689 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
690 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
691 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
693 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
694 ===========================
696 Command line interface
697 ----------------------
699 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
700 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
702 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
703 ===========================
708 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
709 by message properties.
714 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
716 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
717 ===========================
722 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
727 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
728 now needed to build this documentation.
730 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
731 ===========================
736 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
737 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
739 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
740 =========================
747 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
748 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
749 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
750 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
751 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
754 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
756 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
757 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
758 correct encoding for such messages.
760 Command Line Interface
761 ----------------------
763 Support relative database paths
765 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
766 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
767 to $HOME of the invoking user.
772 Improve stderr handling
774 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
775 needed on e.g. macOS.
777 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
779 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
784 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
785 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
791 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
792 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
798 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
799 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
802 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
803 =========================
808 Add support for thread:{} queries
810 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
811 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
812 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
814 Command Line Interface
815 ----------------------
817 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
819 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
821 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
823 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
824 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
825 does not have to be available during message receipt.
830 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
836 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
837 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
839 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
840 ===========================
845 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
847 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
848 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
849 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
851 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
853 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
854 related abort in `notmuch show`.
856 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
857 ===========================
862 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
863 better late than never.
866 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
867 =========================
869 Command Line Interface
870 ----------------------
872 Support for re-indexing existing messages
874 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
875 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
876 change the way specific messages are indexed.
878 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
879 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
880 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
882 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
884 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
886 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
888 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
889 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
890 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
891 the setting of `new.tags`.
893 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
895 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
897 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
899 This inserts into the top level folder.
901 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
903 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
905 New option --output=address for notmuch address
907 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
909 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
911 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
912 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
913 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
915 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
920 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
922 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
923 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
924 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
925 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
926 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
927 config set index.decrypt true".
929 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
930 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
931 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
932 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
933 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
934 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
935 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
936 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
938 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
939 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
940 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
941 this feature without considering the security of your index.
946 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
948 Use make-process when available
950 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
951 notmuch command without using temporary files.
956 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
958 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
959 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
960 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
961 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
963 New functions to count files
965 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
966 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
968 New function to remove properties
970 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
971 drop all properties with a common pattern:
972 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
974 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
976 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
977 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
978 possibility of NULL was not documented.
980 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
982 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
983 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
984 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
985 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
986 operator may decide to change from message to message.
993 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
994 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
995 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1001 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1003 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1004 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1006 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1008 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1010 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1012 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1017 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1018 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1020 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1021 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1022 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1023 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1024 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1025 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1030 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1032 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1033 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1034 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1035 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1037 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1038 ===========================
1043 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1044 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1047 Command Line Interface
1048 ----------------------
1050 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1051 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1054 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1055 ===========================
1057 Command Line Interface
1058 ----------------------
1060 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1061 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1066 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1069 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1070 ===========================
1075 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1078 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1079 =========================
1084 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1086 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1088 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1090 Command Line Interface
1091 ----------------------
1093 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1095 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1100 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1102 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1103 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1106 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1111 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1113 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1114 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1116 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1118 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1119 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1122 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1124 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1126 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1128 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1129 ===========================
1131 Command Line Interface
1132 ----------------------
1134 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1139 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1141 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1142 ===========================
1147 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1149 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1150 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1153 Command Line Interface
1154 ----------------------
1156 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1158 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1160 Fix bug in dump header
1162 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1163 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1164 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1169 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1171 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1172 =========================
1177 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1179 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1182 Command Line Interface
1183 ----------------------
1185 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1187 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1188 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1189 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1191 New default output format to 3
1193 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1194 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1195 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1196 default format changes.
1201 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1203 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1204 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1205 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1206 or tree view to resume.
1208 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1209 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1210 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1213 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1214 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1218 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1219 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1220 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1221 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1222 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1226 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1227 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1228 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1229 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1230 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1231 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1235 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1236 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1238 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1240 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1241 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1242 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1243 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1244 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1245 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1246 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1247 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1250 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1252 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1253 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1254 only tagged the current thread.)
1256 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1258 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1259 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1260 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1262 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1264 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1265 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1266 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1267 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1268 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1269 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1270 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1272 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1274 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1275 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1276 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1281 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1283 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1286 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1288 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1291 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1292 ===========================
1297 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1299 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1300 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1301 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1304 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1305 ===========================
1307 Command Line Interface
1308 ----------------------
1310 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1315 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1317 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1318 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1319 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1321 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1322 ===========================
1327 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1328 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1330 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1331 ===========================
1333 Command Line Interface
1334 ----------------------
1336 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1338 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1339 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1340 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1345 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1347 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1348 ===========================
1350 Command Line Interface
1351 ----------------------
1353 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1358 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1360 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1361 ===========================
1366 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1368 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1369 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1370 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1372 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1374 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1376 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1377 ===========================
1382 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1384 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1389 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1391 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1392 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1393 the original colours.
1395 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1396 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1398 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1400 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1401 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1402 bug, and hence the test.
1404 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1405 =========================
1407 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1408 ---------------------
1410 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1412 Support for single argument date: queries
1414 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1416 Support for blocking opens
1418 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1419 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1421 Support for named queries
1423 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1424 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1425 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1430 Message property API
1432 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1433 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1434 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1435 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1437 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1439 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1444 Support for compile time options
1446 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1447 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1450 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1452 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1453 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1454 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1455 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1456 scripts to ignore it.
1461 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1463 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1464 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1465 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1467 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1468 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1469 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1470 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1471 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1472 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1473 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1475 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1476 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1479 Make internal address completion customizable
1481 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1482 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1483 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1484 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1487 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1489 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1490 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1491 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1492 completion for the current buffer.
1494 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1495 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1496 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1500 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1501 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1502 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1503 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1504 will be added instead.
1506 Face customization is easier
1508 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1509 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1510 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1511 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1513 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1518 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1523 Go bindings moved to contrib
1525 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1527 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1529 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1530 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1532 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1534 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1535 ===========================
1542 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1543 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1545 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1547 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1549 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1550 ===========================
1555 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1557 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1562 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1567 Use `env` to locate perl.
1572 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1574 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1576 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1578 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1580 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1581 =========================
1588 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1589 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1591 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1593 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1594 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1595 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1600 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1601 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1602 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1604 Command Line Interface
1605 ----------------------
1607 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1609 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1614 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1619 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1621 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1622 parts are now included in replies.
1624 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1625 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1626 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1627 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1629 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1631 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1633 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1635 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1636 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1637 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1638 forwards only the current message.
1640 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1642 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1643 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1644 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1645 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1646 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1647 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1648 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1649 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1652 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1653 longer generate empty buffers
1655 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1656 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1657 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1658 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1659 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1661 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1663 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1666 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1668 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1671 Address completion improvements
1673 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1674 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1675 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1676 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1677 interactive address completion.
1679 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1681 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1682 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1683 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1688 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1689 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1690 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1696 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1697 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1698 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1699 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1700 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1701 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1703 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1704 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1705 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1706 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1707 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1708 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1710 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1711 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1713 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1714 =========================
1719 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1722 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1724 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1725 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1726 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1728 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1729 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1731 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1732 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1733 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1735 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1737 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1738 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1739 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1740 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1741 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1742 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1747 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1748 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1751 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1752 option to configure.
1754 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1756 Command Line Interface
1757 ----------------------
1759 Database revision tracking
1761 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1762 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1763 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1764 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1766 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1768 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1769 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1770 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1771 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1772 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1773 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1774 manual page for further information.
1779 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1781 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1782 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1784 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1786 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1787 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1788 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1790 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1792 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1794 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1795 customization as well.
1797 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1799 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1801 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1803 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1805 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1806 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1807 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1808 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1810 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1812 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1813 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1814 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1815 this variable to 10000.
1820 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1821 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1823 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1825 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1826 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1827 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1828 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1829 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1830 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1831 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1832 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1833 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1836 Database revision tracking
1838 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1839 query parser and the new function
1840 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1842 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1844 Deprecated functions
1846 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1847 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1848 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1849 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1854 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1856 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1857 ===========================
1862 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1864 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1865 ===========================
1870 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1872 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1873 =========================
1875 Command-Line Interface
1876 ----------------------
1878 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1880 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1881 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1882 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1884 Path to gpg is now configurable
1886 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1887 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1892 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1894 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1899 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1904 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1909 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1911 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1912 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1914 New error logging facility
1916 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1917 output formerly printed to stderr.
1919 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1921 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1923 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1925 Fix for rounding of seconds
1930 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1932 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1933 documentation has been removed.
1935 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1937 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1938 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1943 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1944 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1945 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1950 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1951 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1952 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1953 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1954 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1955 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1958 git checkout config origin/config
1960 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1962 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1963 =========================
1968 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1969 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1970 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1971 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1972 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1973 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1974 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1976 Command-Line Interface
1977 ----------------------
1979 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1981 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1982 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1983 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1984 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1985 script callers should still check the return value.
1987 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1989 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1990 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1991 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1992 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1993 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1994 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1995 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1997 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1999 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2000 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2001 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2003 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2005 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2006 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2007 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2008 currently unmaintained.
2010 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2012 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2013 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2014 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2015 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2017 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2019 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2020 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2021 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2022 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2023 count of duplicate addresses.
2028 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2030 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2031 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2032 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2035 Improved handling of the unread tag
2037 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2038 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2039 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2040 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2041 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2042 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2043 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2045 Expanded default saved search settings
2047 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2048 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2050 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2052 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2053 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2054 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2056 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2058 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2059 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2060 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2061 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2062 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2063 the variable for details.
2068 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2070 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2071 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2072 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2073 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2075 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2077 Previously, library users were required to call
2078 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2079 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2080 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2081 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2082 too out of date for that API.
2084 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2086 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2087 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2088 atomic section will be aborted.
2090 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2091 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2093 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2095 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2096 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2097 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2098 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2099 messages into the same thread.
2104 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2105 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2106 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2107 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2108 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2109 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2114 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2115 from the config file. Use something like:
2119 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2120 "footer": "</body></html>",
2129 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2134 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2135 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2136 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2138 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2139 ===========================
2144 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2146 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2148 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2150 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2151 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2153 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2155 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2158 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2159 ===========================
2161 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2166 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2168 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2170 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2172 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2174 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2180 Use --quick when starting emacs
2182 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2184 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2186 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2188 Command-Line Interface
2189 ----------------------
2191 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2192 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2197 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2199 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2200 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2202 Fix for phrase indexing
2204 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2205 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2206 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2211 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2213 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2214 unintentionally removed.
2216 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2217 =========================
2222 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2223 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2224 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2225 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2226 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2227 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2228 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2229 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2230 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2236 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2238 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2239 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2240 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2241 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2242 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2243 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2244 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2245 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2247 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2249 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2250 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2251 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2252 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2255 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2257 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2258 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2259 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2260 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2261 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2262 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2263 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2268 Notmuch database upgrade
2270 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2271 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2272 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2273 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2274 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2275 released version of Notmuch before now.
2277 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2279 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2280 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2281 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2282 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2284 Message header parsing changes
2286 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2287 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2288 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2289 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2290 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2291 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2293 Command-Line Interface
2294 ----------------------
2296 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2298 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2300 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2302 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2304 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2306 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2307 user does not want it.
2309 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2311 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2312 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2313 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2314 support formatted output.
2316 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2318 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2319 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2320 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2328 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2329 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2330 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2331 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2332 `~/.emacs` with these.
2334 Changed format for saved searches
2336 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2337 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2338 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2339 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2342 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2343 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2344 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2345 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2347 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2348 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2349 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2351 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2352 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2353 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2354 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2355 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2357 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2359 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2360 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2361 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2363 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2365 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2366 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2367 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2368 message had been unread).
2370 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2371 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2372 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2373 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2375 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2376 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2377 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2379 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2380 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2381 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2382 to tags already present.
2386 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2387 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2388 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2389 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2390 these differ from each other.
2391 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2393 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2395 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2396 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2397 for these Emacs versions.
2399 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2401 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2402 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2404 Bug fixes for sender identities
2406 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2407 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2408 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2410 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2412 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2413 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2414 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2415 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2417 Reply pushes mark before signature
2419 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2420 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2421 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2423 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2425 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2426 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2432 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2433 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2435 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2436 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2437 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2438 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2440 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2441 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2442 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2443 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2444 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2446 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2448 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2449 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2451 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2452 =========================
2454 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2455 ---------------------------------------
2457 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2458 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2459 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2460 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2461 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2462 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2463 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2467 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2468 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2470 Command-Line Interface
2471 ----------------------
2473 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2475 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2476 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2477 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2478 print for each message.
2480 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2481 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2482 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2483 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2485 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2487 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2488 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2489 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2491 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2493 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2494 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2495 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2496 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2498 `notmuch compact` command
2500 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2501 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2502 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2503 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2504 move the compacted database into place.
2509 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2511 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2512 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2513 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2514 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2515 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2516 and multiple threads.
2518 Using `notmuch-tree`
2520 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2522 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2523 search, show and tree mode itself)
2525 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2528 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2529 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2531 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2533 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2534 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2535 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2536 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2537 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2538 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2539 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2541 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2543 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2544 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2545 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2546 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2547 thread when the search was performed.
2549 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2551 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2552 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2553 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2555 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2557 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2558 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2561 Built-in help improvements
2563 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2564 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2565 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2567 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2569 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2570 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2571 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2573 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2575 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2576 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2578 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2580 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2581 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2582 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2583 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2585 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2587 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2588 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2589 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2590 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2592 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2594 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2595 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2596 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2598 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2600 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2601 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2602 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2604 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2606 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2607 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2608 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2609 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2610 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2612 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2614 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2615 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2616 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2617 the body part of the message.
2622 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2623 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2624 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2626 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2627 =========================
2629 Command-Line Interface
2630 ----------------------
2632 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2634 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2635 folder and notmuch index.
2637 `notmuch count --batch` option
2639 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2640 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2642 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2644 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2645 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2646 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2649 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2651 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2652 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2653 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2654 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2655 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2658 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2660 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2661 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2663 Top level option to specify configuration file
2665 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2666 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2668 Bash command-line completion
2670 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2671 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2672 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2673 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2674 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2675 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2676 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2677 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2678 bash-completion package.
2680 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2685 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2687 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2688 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2689 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2690 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2691 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2692 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2693 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2694 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2696 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2698 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2699 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2700 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2702 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2704 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2705 previous thread in the search results.
2707 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2709 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2710 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2712 Faster search and show
2714 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2715 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2716 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2717 threads should show faster.
2721 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2722 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2723 in question was now removed from this release.
2728 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2729 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2734 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2736 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2737 ===========================
2742 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2744 Internal test framework changes
2745 -------------------------------
2747 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2748 being unimplemented.
2750 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2751 ===========================
2753 Internal test framework changes
2754 -------------------------------
2756 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2757 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2759 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2760 =========================
2765 Date range search support
2767 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2768 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2769 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2770 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2771 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2774 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2776 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2777 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2778 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2779 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2780 but may be removed in a future release.
2782 Command-Line Interface
2783 ----------------------
2785 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2787 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2788 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2790 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2792 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2793 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2794 officially deprecated.
2796 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2798 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2799 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2800 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2802 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2804 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2805 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2808 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2809 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2810 dump/restore format.
2812 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2814 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2815 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2816 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2818 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2820 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2821 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2822 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2824 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2826 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2827 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2828 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2829 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2834 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2836 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2837 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2838 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2839 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2841 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2843 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2844 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2845 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2846 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2847 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2848 the behavior of this, see
2849 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2850 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2852 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2853 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2854 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2856 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2858 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2859 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2862 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2864 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2865 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2866 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2867 simply displayed in place of the message.
2869 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2871 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2872 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2874 Improved text/calendar content handling
2876 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2877 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2878 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2879 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2881 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2883 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2884 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2885 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2886 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2888 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2890 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2891 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2892 for HTML email containing images.
2894 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2896 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2898 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2900 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2903 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2905 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2906 the point where it was.
2908 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2910 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2911 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2912 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2913 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2914 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2916 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2918 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2919 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2920 thread instead of the message id.
2922 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2923 -----------------------------
2925 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2926 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2927 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2928 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2929 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2930 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2931 further details and installation.
2936 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2938 Internal test framework changes
2939 -------------------------------
2941 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2943 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2944 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2945 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2946 can result in buggy behavior.
2948 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2949 =========================
2954 Maildir tag synchronization
2956 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2957 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2958 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2959 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2960 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2961 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2964 Command-Line Interface
2965 ----------------------
2967 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2968 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2969 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2970 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2971 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2977 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2979 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2981 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2982 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2983 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2985 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2987 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2988 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2989 span multiple lines.
2991 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2993 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2994 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2995 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2996 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2997 inside the result or message.
2999 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3001 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3002 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3004 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3005 user-specified formatting
3007 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3008 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3009 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3010 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3011 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3013 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3014 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3016 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3017 ===========================
3022 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3023 compilation error for this contrib package.
3025 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3026 ===========================
3031 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3033 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3034 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3035 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3036 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3038 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3039 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3042 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3043 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3044 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3045 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3048 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3050 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3053 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3054 =========================
3056 Command-Line Interface
3057 ----------------------
3061 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3062 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3063 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3064 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3066 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3067 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3068 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3069 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3073 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3074 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3076 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3077 tag in your query, for example:
3079 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3081 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3082 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3084 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3085 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3087 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3089 Raw show format changes
3091 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3092 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3093 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3094 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3095 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3096 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3097 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3098 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3100 Listing configuration items
3102 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3108 Changes to tagging interface
3110 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3111 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3112 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3113 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3114 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3115 for more information.
3117 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3118 may need to update in custom configurations.
3120 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3122 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3123 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3124 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3125 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3128 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3129 -----------------------------
3131 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3132 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3133 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3134 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3135 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3136 contrib/ from now on.
3141 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3142 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3144 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3145 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3147 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3148 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3149 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3151 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3152 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3154 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3155 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3156 returning the new database object or directory object.
3163 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3164 compatible with go 1.
3166 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3167 =========================
3169 Command-Line Interface
3170 ----------------------
3174 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3175 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3176 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3177 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3179 Mail store folder/file ignore
3181 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3182 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3183 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3185 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3186 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3188 Unified help and manual pages
3190 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3191 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3194 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3196 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3197 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3205 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3206 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3207 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3208 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3210 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3212 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3213 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3215 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3218 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3219 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3220 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3222 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3224 should be changed to:
3226 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3228 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3230 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3231 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3233 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3235 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3236 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3237 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3238 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3239 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3240 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3244 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3245 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3246 of Mailing List Archives.
3248 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3250 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3251 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3254 Show view archiving key binding changes
3256 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3257 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3258 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3259 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3260 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3263 Support text/calendar MIME type
3265 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3268 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3270 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3271 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3272 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3273 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3275 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3277 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3278 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3279 messages blue by default in the search view.
3283 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3284 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3291 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3294 Python bindings changes
3295 -----------------------
3297 Python 3.2 compatibility
3299 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3301 Added missing unicode conversions
3303 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3304 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3305 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3310 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3312 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3313 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3314 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3315 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3316 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3318 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3319 ===========================
3324 Fix error handling in python bindings
3326 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3327 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3328 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3329 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3331 Quote MML tags in replies
3333 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3334 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3335 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3336 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3337 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3338 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3339 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3340 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3342 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3343 =========================
3345 Command-Line Interface
3346 ----------------------
3350 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3351 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3352 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3353 importing new messages into the database.
3355 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3357 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3358 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3359 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3364 Automatic tag query optimization
3366 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3367 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3368 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3370 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3372 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3373 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3374 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3379 Reduction of memory leaks
3381 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3382 and fixed in this release.
3389 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3390 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3391 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3394 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3396 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3397 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3398 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3401 Improvements in saved search management
3403 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3404 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3405 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3407 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3409 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3410 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3411 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3413 New face for crypto parts headers
3415 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3416 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3417 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3420 Use space as default thousands separator
3422 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3423 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3424 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3426 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3427 buttonized id: links
3429 New function notmuch-show-advance
3431 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3432 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3433 be bound to SPC with:
3435 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3437 Various performance improvements
3442 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3443 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3446 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3447 ===========================
3452 Fix crash in python bindings
3454 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3455 for some, but not all users.
3457 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3458 ===========================
3463 Fix `--help` argument
3465 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3466 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3467 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3469 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3470 =========================
3472 New build and testing features
3473 ------------------------------
3475 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3476 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3477 prerequisites is improved.
3479 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3481 New command-line features
3482 -------------------------
3484 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3486 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3487 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3490 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3492 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3493 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3494 favour of using stdout.
3496 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3498 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3499 limit the number of results shown.
3501 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3503 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3504 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3507 New emacs UI features
3508 ---------------------
3510 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3512 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3513 starting with "tag:".
3515 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3517 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3518 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3520 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3522 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3524 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3526 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3527 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3532 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3534 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3536 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3537 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3538 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3539 requires a database rebuild:
3541 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3542 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3544 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3546 New collection of add-on tools
3547 ------------------------------
3549 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3550 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3551 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3554 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3556 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3557 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3558 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3560 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3561 ========================
3563 New, general features
3564 ---------------------
3566 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3568 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3569 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3570 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3571 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3572 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3579 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3580 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3582 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3586 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3587 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3588 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3591 Python bindings changes
3592 -----------------------
3594 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3596 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3597 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3598 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3599 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3600 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3601 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3603 Ruby bindings changes
3604 ---------------------
3606 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3607 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3608 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3609 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3614 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3616 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3617 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3619 Reply formatting cleanup
3620 ------------------------
3622 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3623 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3625 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3626 ========================
3628 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3630 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3631 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3632 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3633 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3636 Improved Build system portability
3638 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3639 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3640 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3642 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3644 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3646 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3648 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3649 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3650 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3652 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3653 ========================
3655 Vim interface improvements
3656 --------------------------
3658 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3660 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3661 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3662 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3663 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3664 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3666 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3668 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3669 * fix compose temp file name
3671 Python Bindings changes
3672 -----------------------
3674 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3676 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3677 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3679 Build-System improvements
3680 -------------------------
3682 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3684 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3687 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3688 ==========================
3693 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3695 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3696 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3698 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3699 =======================
3701 New, general features
3702 ---------------------
3704 Folder-based searching
3706 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3707 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3708 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3712 For example, one might use things such as:
3718 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3719 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3721 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3722 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3723 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3724 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3726 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3727 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3728 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3731 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3732 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3734 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3736 Support for PGP/MIME
3738 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3739 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3740 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3742 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3744 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3745 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3747 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3748 notmuch will receive these tags.
3750 New command-line features
3751 -------------------------
3753 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3755 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3756 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3758 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3760 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3761 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3762 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3764 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3766 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3767 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3768 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3769 which parts a signature part applies).
3771 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3773 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3774 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3775 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3776 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3777 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3780 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3782 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3783 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3784 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3785 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3786 by translating it internally to the new call.
3788 Performance improvements
3789 ------------------------
3791 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3793 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3794 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3795 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3797 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3798 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3800 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3802 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3803 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3804 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3806 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3807 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3808 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3809 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3811 Faster initial indexing
3813 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3814 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3815 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3817 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3819 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3820 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3821 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3822 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3824 New emacs-interface features
3825 ----------------------------
3827 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3829 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3830 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3831 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3832 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3833 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3834 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3836 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3838 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3839 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3840 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3841 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3843 User-selectable From address
3845 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3846 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3847 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3848 will prompt for the from address to use.
3850 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3851 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3852 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3854 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3855 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3856 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3859 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3861 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3862 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3864 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3866 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3868 ----- Original Message -----
3870 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3871 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3872 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3873 citations work much like conventional citations.
3875 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3877 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3878 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3879 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3880 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3881 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3883 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3884 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3886 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3888 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3889 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3890 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3892 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3894 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3895 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3896 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3897 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3898 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3900 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3902 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3905 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3907 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3909 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3911 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3914 Vim interface improvements
3915 --------------------------
3917 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3919 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3920 * Implementing archive in show view
3921 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3922 * Add delete commands
3925 Bindings improvements
3926 ---------------------
3928 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3930 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3931 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3933 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3935 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3939 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3940 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3941 `list(Messages)` works now
3942 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3944 These allow, for example:
3946 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3948 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3950 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3956 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3958 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3961 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3963 New build-system features
3964 -------------------------
3966 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3968 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3969 the configure script from some other directory:
3976 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3978 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3979 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3980 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3981 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3982 manual invocation of configure.
3984 New test-suite feature
3985 ----------------------
3987 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3989 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3990 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3991 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3992 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3993 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3996 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3998 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3999 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4000 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4001 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4002 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4003 are updated to take advantage of this.
4005 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4007 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4008 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4009 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4010 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4016 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4018 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4019 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4020 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4022 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4024 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4026 to:user@elsewhere.com
4028 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4030 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4032 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4034 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4035 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4036 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4039 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4040 from the Received headers in some cases
4042 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4043 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4045 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4047 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4049 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4051 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4052 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4053 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4055 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4056 -------------------------
4058 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4060 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4061 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4062 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4064 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4066 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4067 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4068 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4071 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4073 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4074 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4075 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4076 fixed to avoid this bug.
4078 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4080 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4081 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4083 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4084 ========================
4086 New, general features
4087 ---------------------
4089 Maildir-flag synchronization
4091 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4092 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4101 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4103 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4104 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4105 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4106 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4108 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4109 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4110 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4111 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4114 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4116 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4117 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4118 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4120 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4121 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4123 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4124 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4126 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4127 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4128 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4130 New library features
4131 --------------------
4133 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4135 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4136 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4137 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4138 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4140 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4141 message with the new function:
4143 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4145 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4146 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4147 over all available filenames for a given message.
4149 New command-line features
4150 -------------------------
4152 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4154 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4155 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4156 access to the mail store itself.
4158 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4159 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4160 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4161 name of a script containing:
4163 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4165 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4166 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4172 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4174 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4176 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4178 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4179 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4180 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4181 now produces nothing).
4183 Emacs interface improvements
4184 ----------------------------
4186 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4188 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4190 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4192 Display current thread subject in a header line
4194 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4196 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4198 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4199 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4200 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4201 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4202 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4203 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4204 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4206 Vim interface improvements
4207 --------------------------
4209 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4211 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4212 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4218 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4220 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4221 ========================
4223 New command-line features
4224 -------------------------
4226 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4228 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4229 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4230 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4232 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4233 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4234 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4235 scripts. For example:
4237 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4238 <operations-on> "$file"
4241 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4243 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4244 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4245 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4246 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4247 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4248 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4250 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4252 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4253 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4254 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4255 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4257 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4259 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4260 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4261 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4262 default rather than Bcc.
4264 New library features
4265 --------------------
4267 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4269 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4270 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4275 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4277 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4278 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4279 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4280 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4281 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4282 notmuch customize interface.
4284 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4286 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4287 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4288 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4289 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4291 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4293 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4294 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4295 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4296 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4298 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4300 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4301 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4302 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4303 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4304 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4305 notmuch customize interface.
4307 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4309 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4310 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4311 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4312 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4313 notmuch customize interface.
4315 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4317 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4318 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4319 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4320 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4323 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4325 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4326 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4327 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4330 New build-system features
4331 -------------------------
4333 Various portability fixes have been applied
4335 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4336 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4337 more portable than ever before.
4339 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4341 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4342 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4343 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4345 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4346 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4347 automatically run ldconfig.
4349 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4350 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4351 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4353 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4354 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4355 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4356 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4358 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4360 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4361 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4362 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4363 used in the resulting Makefile.
4365 New test-suite features
4366 -----------------------
4368 New modularization of test suite
4370 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4371 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4372 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4373 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4374 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4375 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4376 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4377 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4379 New testing of emacs interface
4381 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4382 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4383 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4384 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4385 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4386 database via the FCC setting.
4391 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4393 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4394 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4395 persistent error of the form:
4397 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4399 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4400 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4402 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4404 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4405 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4406 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4408 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4410 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4411 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4412 parsing the notmuch results).
4414 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4416 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4419 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4420 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4421 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4426 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4428 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4429 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4430 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4431 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4432 the emacs interface.
4434 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4436 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4437 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4438 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4440 Python-binding fixes
4441 --------------------
4443 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4445 Debian-specific fixes
4446 ---------------------
4448 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4450 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4451 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4452 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4455 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4456 ==========================
4461 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4463 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4464 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4465 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4466 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4468 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4470 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4471 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4472 want notmuch to crash.
4477 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4479 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4480 directory does not exist
4485 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4487 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4488 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4490 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4491 ========================
4493 New command-line features
4494 -------------------------
4496 User-configurable tags for new messages
4498 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4499 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4500 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4501 to specify this value.
4503 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4505 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4506 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4507 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4509 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4511 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4512 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4514 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4516 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4517 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4518 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4519 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4520 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4523 Indication of author names that match a search
4525 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4526 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4527 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4528 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4529 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4530 messages in the thread are listed first.
4532 New: Python bindings
4533 --------------------
4535 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4536 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4537 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4538 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4540 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4541 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4542 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4545 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4546 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4547 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4549 Emacs interface improvements
4550 ----------------------------
4552 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4554 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4555 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4556 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4557 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4558 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4559 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4560 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4561 but without any of the disadvantages).
4563 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4564 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4565 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4568 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4569 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4570 instead running something like:
4572 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4574 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4575 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4576 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4579 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4581 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4582 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4583 tweaked by the user.
4585 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4586 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4587 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4590 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4591 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4592 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4595 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4597 This support currently relies on an external program,
4598 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4599 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4600 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4601 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4602 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4605 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4606 notmuch) is available via:
4608 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4610 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4611 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4612 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4614 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4616 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4617 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4618 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4619 making this automatic in a future release.
4621 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4623 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4624 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4625 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4626 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4627 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4628 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4631 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4633 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4634 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4635 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4637 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4639 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4640 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4641 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4643 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4644 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4645 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4646 other representation.
4648 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4649 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4652 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4654 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4655 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4656 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4658 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4659 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4660 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4662 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4664 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4665 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4666 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4667 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4668 to display the search result.
4670 More flexible handling of header visibility
4672 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4673 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4674 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4675 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4676 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4677 with the 'h' keybinding.
4679 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4680 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4681 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4683 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4685 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4687 Customizable formatting of search results
4689 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4690 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4691 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4693 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4695 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4697 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4702 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4704 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4705 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4706 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4707 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4713 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4715 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4716 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4718 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4720 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4721 accept are now all accepted.
4726 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4728 Better display of output from failed tests
4730 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4731 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4733 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4734 ========================
4736 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4737 detailed release notes this time!
4739 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4740 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4742 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4743 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4744 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4745 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4752 Better guessing of From: header
4754 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4755 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4756 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4757 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4758 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4761 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4763 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4764 guaranteed to match all messages.
4766 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4768 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4769 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4770 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4771 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4772 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4775 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4778 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4779 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4780 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4781 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4786 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4788 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4789 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4790 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4791 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4793 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4795 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4797 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4798 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4799 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4801 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4803 Previously, the user might see:
4805 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4809 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4811 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4812 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4813 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4814 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4816 Emacs client features
4817 ---------------------
4819 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4821 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4822 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4823 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4824 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4825 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4827 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4830 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4831 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4832 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4833 search with the '*' binding.
4835 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4837 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4838 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4841 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4843 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4844 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4845 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4847 Build-system features
4848 ---------------------
4850 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4852 Add support to configure for many standard options
4854 We include actual support for:
4856 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4858 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4860 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4861 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4863 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4864 separate "make install-emacs"
4866 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4868 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4869 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4870 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4872 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4875 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4876 ========================
4878 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4880 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4881 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4883 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4884 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4885 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4886 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4887 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4888 tags from messages in a thread.
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