1 Notmuch 0.31 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
9 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
14 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
15 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
16 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
22 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
23 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
24 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
25 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
27 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
28 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
29 non-status providing versions.
34 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
35 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
36 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
41 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
44 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
45 =========================
50 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
51 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
52 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
55 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
61 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
62 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
63 notmuch-properties(7)).
68 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
69 has protected headers (see
70 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
71 notmuch-properties(7)).
76 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
78 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
79 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
85 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
88 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
89 ===========================
94 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
96 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
101 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
103 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
104 ===========================
109 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
110 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
112 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
113 ===========================
118 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
120 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
121 =========================
126 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
127 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
130 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
131 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
132 the set of headers to be indexed.
134 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
137 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
138 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
139 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
142 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
143 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
144 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
146 Command Line Interface
147 ----------------------
149 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
152 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
154 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
155 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
156 more details about what is included there. This status includes
157 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
162 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
163 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
165 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
167 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
169 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
171 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
173 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
176 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
178 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
179 and may be removed in a future release.
181 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
187 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
189 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
190 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
195 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
196 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
197 cryptography support.
202 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
203 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
204 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
206 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
207 ===========================
209 Command line interface
210 ----------------------
212 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
213 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
215 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
216 ===========================
221 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
222 by message properties.
227 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
229 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
230 ===========================
235 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
240 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
241 now needed to build this documentation.
243 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
244 ===========================
249 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
250 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
252 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
253 =========================
260 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
261 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
262 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
263 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
264 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
267 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
269 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
270 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
271 correct encoding for such messages.
273 Command Line Interface
274 ----------------------
276 Support relative database paths
278 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
279 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
280 to $HOME of the invoking user.
285 Improve stderr handling
287 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
288 needed on e.g. macOS.
290 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
292 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
297 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
298 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
304 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
305 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
311 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
312 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
315 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
316 =========================
321 Add support for thread:{} queries
323 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
324 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
325 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
327 Command Line Interface
328 ----------------------
330 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
332 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
334 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
336 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
337 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
338 does not have to be available during message receipt.
343 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
349 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
350 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
352 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
353 ===========================
358 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
360 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
361 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
362 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
364 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
366 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
367 related abort in `notmuch show`.
369 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
370 ===========================
375 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
376 better late than never.
379 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
380 =========================
382 Command Line Interface
383 ----------------------
385 Support for re-indexing existing messages
387 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
388 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
389 change the way specific messages are indexed.
391 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
392 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
393 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
395 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
397 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
399 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
401 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
402 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
403 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
404 the setting of `new.tags`.
406 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
408 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
410 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
412 This inserts into the top level folder.
414 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
416 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
418 New option --output=address for notmuch address
420 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
422 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
424 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
425 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
426 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
428 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
433 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
435 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
436 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
437 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
438 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
439 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
440 config set index.decrypt true".
442 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
443 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
444 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
445 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
446 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
447 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
448 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
449 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
451 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
452 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
453 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
454 this feature without considering the security of your index.
459 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
461 Use make-process when available
463 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
464 notmuch command without using temporary files.
469 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
471 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
472 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
473 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
474 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
476 New functions to count files
478 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
479 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
481 New function to remove properties
483 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
484 drop all properties with a common pattern:
485 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
487 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
489 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
490 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
491 possibility of NULL was not documented.
493 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
495 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
496 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
497 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
498 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
499 operator may decide to change from message to message.
506 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
507 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
508 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
514 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
516 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
517 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
519 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
521 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
523 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
525 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
530 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
531 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
533 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
534 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
535 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
536 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
537 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
538 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
543 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
545 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
546 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
547 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
548 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
550 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
551 ===========================
556 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
557 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
560 Command Line Interface
561 ----------------------
563 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
564 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
567 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
568 ===========================
570 Command Line Interface
571 ----------------------
573 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
574 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
579 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
582 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
583 ===========================
588 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
591 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
592 =========================
597 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
599 Skip HTML tags when indexing
601 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
603 Command Line Interface
604 ----------------------
606 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
608 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
613 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
615 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
616 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
619 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
624 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
626 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
627 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
629 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
631 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
632 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
635 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
637 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
639 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
641 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
642 ===========================
644 Command Line Interface
645 ----------------------
647 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
652 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
654 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
655 ===========================
660 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
662 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
663 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
666 Command Line Interface
667 ----------------------
669 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
671 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
673 Fix bug in dump header
675 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
676 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
677 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
682 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
684 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
685 =========================
690 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
692 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
695 Command Line Interface
696 ----------------------
698 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
700 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
701 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
702 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
704 New default output format to 3
706 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
707 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
708 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
709 default format changes.
714 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
716 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
717 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
718 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
719 or tree view to resume.
721 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
722 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
723 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
726 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
727 they were when you postponed in the final message.
731 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
732 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
733 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
734 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
735 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
739 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
740 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
741 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
742 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
743 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
744 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
748 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
749 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
751 Stop display of `application/*` parts
753 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
754 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
755 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
756 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
757 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
758 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
759 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
760 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
763 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
765 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
766 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
767 only tagged the current thread.)
769 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
771 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
772 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
773 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
775 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
777 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
778 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
779 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
780 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
781 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
782 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
783 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
785 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
787 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
788 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
789 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
794 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
796 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
799 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
801 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
804 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
805 ===========================
810 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
812 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
813 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
814 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
817 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
818 ===========================
820 Command Line Interface
821 ----------------------
823 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
828 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
830 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
831 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
832 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
834 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
835 ===========================
840 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
841 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
843 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
844 ===========================
846 Command Line Interface
847 ----------------------
849 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
851 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
852 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
853 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
858 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
860 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
861 ===========================
863 Command Line Interface
864 ----------------------
866 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
871 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
873 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
874 ===========================
879 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
881 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
882 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
883 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
885 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
887 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
889 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
890 ===========================
895 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
897 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
902 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
904 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
905 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
906 the original colours.
908 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
909 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
911 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
913 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
914 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
915 bug, and hence the test.
917 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
918 =========================
920 General (Xapian 1.4+)
921 ---------------------
923 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
925 Support for single argument date: queries
927 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
929 Support for blocking opens
931 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
932 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
934 Support for named queries
936 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
937 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
938 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
945 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
946 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
947 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
948 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
950 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
952 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
957 Support for compile time options
959 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
960 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
963 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
965 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
966 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
967 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
968 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
969 scripts to ignore it.
974 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
976 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
977 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
978 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
980 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
981 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
982 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
983 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
984 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
985 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
986 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
988 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
989 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
992 Make internal address completion customizable
994 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
995 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
996 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
997 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1000 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1002 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1003 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1004 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1005 completion for the current buffer.
1007 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1008 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1009 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1013 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1014 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1015 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1016 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1017 will be added instead.
1019 Face customization is easier
1021 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1022 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1023 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1024 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1026 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1031 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1036 Go bindings moved to contrib
1038 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1040 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1042 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1043 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1045 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1047 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1048 ===========================
1055 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1056 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1058 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1060 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1062 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1063 ===========================
1068 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1070 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1075 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1080 Use `env` to locate perl.
1085 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1087 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1089 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1091 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1093 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1094 =========================
1101 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1102 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1104 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1106 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1107 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1108 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1113 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1114 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1115 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1117 Command Line Interface
1118 ----------------------
1120 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1122 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1127 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1132 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1134 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1135 parts are now included in replies.
1137 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1138 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1139 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1140 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1142 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1144 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1146 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1148 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1149 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1150 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1151 forwards only the current message.
1153 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1155 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1156 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1157 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1158 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1159 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1160 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1161 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1162 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1165 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1166 longer generate empty buffers
1168 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1169 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1170 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1171 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1172 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1174 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1176 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1179 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1181 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1184 Address completion improvements
1186 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1187 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1188 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1189 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1190 interactive address completion.
1192 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1194 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1195 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1196 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1201 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1202 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1203 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1209 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1210 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1211 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1212 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1213 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1214 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1216 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1217 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1218 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1219 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1220 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1221 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1223 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1224 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1226 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1227 =========================
1232 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1235 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1237 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1238 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1239 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1241 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1242 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1244 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1245 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1246 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1248 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1250 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1251 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1252 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1253 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1254 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1255 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1260 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1261 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1264 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1265 option to configure.
1267 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1269 Command Line Interface
1270 ----------------------
1272 Database revision tracking
1274 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1275 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1276 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1277 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1279 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1281 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1282 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1283 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1284 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1285 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1286 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1287 manual page for further information.
1292 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1294 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1295 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1297 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1299 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1300 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1301 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1303 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1305 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1307 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1308 customization as well.
1310 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1312 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1314 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1316 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1318 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1319 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1320 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1321 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1323 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1325 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1326 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1327 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1328 this variable to 10000.
1333 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1334 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1336 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1338 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1339 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1340 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1341 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1342 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1343 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1344 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1345 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1346 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1349 Database revision tracking
1351 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1352 query parser and the new function
1353 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1355 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1357 Deprecated functions
1359 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1360 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1361 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1362 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1367 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1369 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1370 ===========================
1375 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1377 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1378 ===========================
1383 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1385 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1386 =========================
1388 Command-Line Interface
1389 ----------------------
1391 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1393 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1394 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1395 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1397 Path to gpg is now configurable
1399 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1400 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1405 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1407 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1412 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1417 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1422 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1424 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1425 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1427 New error logging facility
1429 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1430 output formerly printed to stderr.
1432 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1434 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1436 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1438 Fix for rounding of seconds
1443 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1445 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1446 documentation has been removed.
1448 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1450 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1451 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1456 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1457 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1458 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1463 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1464 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1465 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1466 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1467 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1468 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1471 git checkout config origin/config
1473 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1475 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1476 =========================
1481 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1482 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1483 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1484 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1485 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1486 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1487 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1489 Command-Line Interface
1490 ----------------------
1492 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1494 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1495 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1496 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1497 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1498 script callers should still check the return value.
1500 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1502 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1503 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1504 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1505 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1506 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1507 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1508 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1510 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1512 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1513 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1514 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1516 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1518 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1519 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1520 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1521 currently unmaintained.
1523 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1525 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1526 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1527 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1528 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1530 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1532 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1533 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1534 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1535 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1536 count of duplicate addresses.
1541 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1543 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1544 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1545 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1548 Improved handling of the unread tag
1550 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1551 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1552 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1553 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1554 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1555 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1556 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1558 Expanded default saved search settings
1560 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1561 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1563 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1565 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1566 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1567 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1569 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1571 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1572 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1573 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1574 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1575 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1576 the variable for details.
1581 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1583 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1584 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1585 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1586 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1588 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1590 Previously, library users were required to call
1591 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1592 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1593 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1594 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1595 too out of date for that API.
1597 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1599 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1600 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1601 atomic section will be aborted.
1603 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1604 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1606 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1608 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1609 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1610 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1611 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1612 messages into the same thread.
1617 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1618 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1619 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1620 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1621 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1622 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1627 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1628 from the config file. Use something like:
1632 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1633 "footer": "</body></html>",
1642 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1647 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1648 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1649 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1651 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1652 ===========================
1657 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1659 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1661 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1663 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1664 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1666 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1668 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1671 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1672 ===========================
1674 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1679 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1681 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1683 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1685 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1687 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1693 Use --quick when starting emacs
1695 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1697 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1699 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1701 Command-Line Interface
1702 ----------------------
1704 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1705 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1710 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1712 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1713 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1715 Fix for phrase indexing
1717 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1718 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1719 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1724 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1726 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1727 unintentionally removed.
1729 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1730 =========================
1735 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1736 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1737 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1738 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1739 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1740 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1741 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1742 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1743 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1749 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1751 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1752 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1753 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1754 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1755 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1756 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1757 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1758 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1760 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1762 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1763 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1764 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1765 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1768 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1770 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1771 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1772 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1773 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1774 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1775 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1776 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1781 Notmuch database upgrade
1783 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1784 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1785 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1786 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1787 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1788 released version of Notmuch before now.
1790 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1792 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1793 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1794 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1795 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1797 Message header parsing changes
1799 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1800 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1801 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1802 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1803 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1804 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1806 Command-Line Interface
1807 ----------------------
1809 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1811 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1813 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1815 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1817 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1819 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1820 user does not want it.
1822 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1824 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1825 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1826 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1827 support formatted output.
1829 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1831 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1832 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1833 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1841 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1842 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1843 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1844 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1845 `~/.emacs` with these.
1847 Changed format for saved searches
1849 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1850 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1851 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1852 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1855 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1856 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1857 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1858 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1860 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1861 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1862 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1864 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1865 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1866 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1867 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1868 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1870 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1872 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1873 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1874 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1876 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1878 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1879 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1880 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1881 message had been unread).
1883 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1884 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1885 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1886 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1888 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1889 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1890 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1892 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1893 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1894 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1895 to tags already present.
1899 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1900 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1901 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1902 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1903 these differ from each other.
1904 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1906 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1908 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1909 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1910 for these Emacs versions.
1912 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1914 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1915 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1917 Bug fixes for sender identities
1919 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1920 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1921 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1923 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1925 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1926 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1927 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1928 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1930 Reply pushes mark before signature
1932 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1933 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1934 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1936 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1938 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1939 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1945 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1946 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1948 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1949 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1950 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1951 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1953 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1954 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1955 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1956 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1957 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1959 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1961 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1962 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1964 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1965 =========================
1967 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1968 ---------------------------------------
1970 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1971 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1972 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1973 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1974 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1975 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1976 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1980 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1981 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1983 Command-Line Interface
1984 ----------------------
1986 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1988 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1989 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1990 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1991 print for each message.
1993 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1994 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1995 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1996 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1998 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2000 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2001 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2002 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2004 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2006 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2007 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2008 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2009 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2011 `notmuch compact` command
2013 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2014 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2015 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2016 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2017 move the compacted database into place.
2022 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2024 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2025 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2026 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2027 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2028 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2029 and multiple threads.
2031 Using `notmuch-tree`
2033 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2035 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2036 search, show and tree mode itself)
2038 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2041 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2042 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2044 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2046 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2047 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2048 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2049 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2050 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2051 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2052 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2054 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2056 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2057 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2058 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2059 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2060 thread when the search was performed.
2062 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2064 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2065 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2066 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2068 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2070 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2071 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2074 Built-in help improvements
2076 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2077 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2078 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2080 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2082 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2083 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2084 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2086 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2088 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2089 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2091 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2093 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2094 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2095 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2096 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2098 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2100 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2101 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2102 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2103 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2105 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2107 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2108 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2109 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2111 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2113 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2114 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2115 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2117 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2119 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2120 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2121 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2122 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2123 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2125 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2127 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2128 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2129 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2130 the body part of the message.
2135 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2136 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2137 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2139 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2140 =========================
2142 Command-Line Interface
2143 ----------------------
2145 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2147 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2148 folder and notmuch index.
2150 `notmuch count --batch` option
2152 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2153 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2155 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2157 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2158 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2159 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2162 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2164 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2165 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2166 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2167 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2168 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2171 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2173 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2174 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2176 Top level option to specify configuration file
2178 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2179 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2181 Bash command-line completion
2183 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2184 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2185 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2186 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2187 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2188 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2189 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2190 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2191 bash-completion package.
2193 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2198 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2200 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2201 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2202 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2203 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2204 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2205 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2206 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2207 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2209 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2211 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2212 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2213 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2215 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2217 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2218 previous thread in the search results.
2220 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2222 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2223 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2225 Faster search and show
2227 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2228 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2229 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2230 threads should show faster.
2234 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2235 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2236 in question was now removed from this release.
2241 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2242 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2247 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2249 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2250 ===========================
2255 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2257 Internal test framework changes
2258 -------------------------------
2260 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2261 being unimplemented.
2263 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2264 ===========================
2266 Internal test framework changes
2267 -------------------------------
2269 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2270 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2272 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2273 =========================
2278 Date range search support
2280 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2281 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2282 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2283 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2284 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2287 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2289 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2290 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2291 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2292 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2293 but may be removed in a future release.
2295 Command-Line Interface
2296 ----------------------
2298 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2300 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2301 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2303 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2305 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2306 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2307 officially deprecated.
2309 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2311 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2312 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2313 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2315 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2317 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2318 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2321 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2322 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2323 dump/restore format.
2325 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2327 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2328 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2329 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2331 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2333 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2334 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2335 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2337 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2339 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2340 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2341 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2342 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2347 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2349 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2350 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2351 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2352 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2354 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2356 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2357 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2358 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2359 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2360 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2361 the behavior of this, see
2362 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2363 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2365 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2366 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2367 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2369 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2371 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2372 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2375 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2377 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2378 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2379 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2380 simply displayed in place of the message.
2382 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2384 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2385 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2387 Improved text/calendar content handling
2389 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2390 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2391 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2392 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2394 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2396 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2397 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2398 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2399 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2401 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2403 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2404 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2405 for HTML email containing images.
2407 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2409 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2411 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2413 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2416 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2418 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2419 the point where it was.
2421 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2423 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2424 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2425 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2426 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2427 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2429 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2431 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2432 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2433 thread instead of the message id.
2435 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2436 -----------------------------
2438 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2439 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2440 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2441 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2442 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2443 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2444 further details and installation.
2449 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2451 Internal test framework changes
2452 -------------------------------
2454 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2456 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2457 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2458 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2459 can result in buggy behavior.
2461 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2462 =========================
2467 Maildir tag synchronization
2469 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2470 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2471 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2472 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2473 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2474 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2477 Command-Line Interface
2478 ----------------------
2480 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2481 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2482 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2483 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2484 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2490 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2492 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2494 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2495 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2496 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2498 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2500 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2501 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2502 span multiple lines.
2504 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2506 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2507 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2508 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2509 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2510 inside the result or message.
2512 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2514 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2515 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2517 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2518 user-specified formatting
2520 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2521 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2522 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2523 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2524 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2526 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2527 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2529 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2530 ===========================
2535 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2536 compilation error for this contrib package.
2538 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2539 ===========================
2544 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2546 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2547 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2548 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2549 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2551 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2552 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2555 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2556 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2557 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2558 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2561 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2563 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2566 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2567 =========================
2569 Command-Line Interface
2570 ----------------------
2574 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2575 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2576 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2577 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2579 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2580 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2581 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2582 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2586 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2587 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2589 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2590 tag in your query, for example:
2592 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2594 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2595 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2597 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2598 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2600 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2602 Raw show format changes
2604 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2605 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2606 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2607 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2608 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2609 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2610 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2611 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2613 Listing configuration items
2615 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2621 Changes to tagging interface
2623 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2624 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2625 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2626 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2627 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2628 for more information.
2630 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2631 may need to update in custom configurations.
2633 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2635 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2636 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2637 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2638 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2641 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2642 -----------------------------
2644 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2645 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2646 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2647 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2648 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2649 contrib/ from now on.
2654 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2655 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2657 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2658 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2660 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2661 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2662 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2664 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2665 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2667 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2668 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2669 returning the new database object or directory object.
2676 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2677 compatible with go 1.
2679 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2680 =========================
2682 Command-Line Interface
2683 ----------------------
2687 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2688 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2689 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2690 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2692 Mail store folder/file ignore
2694 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2695 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2696 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2698 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2699 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2701 Unified help and manual pages
2703 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2704 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2707 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2709 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2710 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2718 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2719 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2720 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2721 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2723 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2725 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2726 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2728 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2731 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2732 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2733 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2735 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2737 should be changed to:
2739 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2741 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2743 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2744 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2746 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2748 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2749 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2750 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2751 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2752 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2753 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2757 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2758 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2759 of Mailing List Archives.
2761 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2763 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2764 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2767 Show view archiving key binding changes
2769 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2770 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2771 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2772 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2773 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2776 Support text/calendar MIME type
2778 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2781 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2783 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2784 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2785 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2786 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2788 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2790 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2791 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2792 messages blue by default in the search view.
2796 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2797 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2804 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2807 Python bindings changes
2808 -----------------------
2810 Python 3.2 compatibility
2812 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2814 Added missing unicode conversions
2816 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2817 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2818 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2823 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2825 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2826 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2827 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2828 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2829 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2831 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2832 ===========================
2837 Fix error handling in python bindings
2839 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2840 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2841 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2842 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2844 Quote MML tags in replies
2846 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2847 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2848 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2849 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2850 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2851 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2852 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2853 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2855 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2856 =========================
2858 Command-Line Interface
2859 ----------------------
2863 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2864 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2865 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2866 importing new messages into the database.
2868 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2870 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2871 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2872 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2877 Automatic tag query optimization
2879 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2880 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2881 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2883 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2885 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2886 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2887 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2892 Reduction of memory leaks
2894 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2895 and fixed in this release.
2902 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2903 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2904 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2907 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2909 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2910 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2911 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2914 Improvements in saved search management
2916 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2917 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2918 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2920 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2922 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2923 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2924 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2926 New face for crypto parts headers
2928 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2929 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2930 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2933 Use space as default thousands separator
2935 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2936 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2937 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2939 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2940 buttonized id: links
2942 New function notmuch-show-advance
2944 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2945 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2946 be bound to SPC with:
2948 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2950 Various performance improvements
2955 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2956 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2959 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2960 ===========================
2965 Fix crash in python bindings
2967 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2968 for some, but not all users.
2970 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2971 ===========================
2976 Fix `--help` argument
2978 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2979 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2980 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2982 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2983 =========================
2985 New build and testing features
2986 ------------------------------
2988 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2989 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2990 prerequisites is improved.
2992 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2994 New command-line features
2995 -------------------------
2997 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2999 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3000 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3003 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3005 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3006 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3007 favour of using stdout.
3009 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3011 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3012 limit the number of results shown.
3014 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3016 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3017 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3020 New emacs UI features
3021 ---------------------
3023 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3025 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3026 starting with "tag:".
3028 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3030 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3031 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3033 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3035 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3037 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3039 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3040 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3045 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3047 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3049 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3050 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3051 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3052 requires a database rebuild:
3054 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3055 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3057 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3059 New collection of add-on tools
3060 ------------------------------
3062 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3063 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3064 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3067 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3069 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3070 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3071 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3073 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3074 ========================
3076 New, general features
3077 ---------------------
3079 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3081 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3082 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3083 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3084 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3085 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3092 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3093 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3095 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3099 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3100 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3101 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3104 Python bindings changes
3105 -----------------------
3107 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3109 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3110 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3111 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3112 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3113 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3114 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3116 Ruby bindings changes
3117 ---------------------
3119 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3120 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3121 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3122 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3127 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3129 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3130 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3132 Reply formatting cleanup
3133 ------------------------
3135 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3136 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3138 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3139 ========================
3141 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3143 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3144 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3145 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3146 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3149 Improved Build system portability
3151 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3152 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3153 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3155 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3157 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3159 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3161 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3162 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3163 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3165 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3166 ========================
3168 Vim interface improvements
3169 --------------------------
3171 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3173 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3174 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3175 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3176 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3177 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3179 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3181 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3182 * fix compose temp file name
3184 Python Bindings changes
3185 -----------------------
3187 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3189 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3190 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3192 Build-System improvements
3193 -------------------------
3195 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3197 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3200 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3201 ==========================
3206 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3208 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3209 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3211 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3212 =======================
3214 New, general features
3215 ---------------------
3217 Folder-based searching
3219 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3220 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3221 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3225 For example, one might use things such as:
3231 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3232 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3234 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3235 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3236 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3237 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3239 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3240 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3241 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3244 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3245 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3247 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3249 Support for PGP/MIME
3251 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3252 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3253 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3255 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3257 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3258 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3260 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3261 notmuch will receive these tags.
3263 New command-line features
3264 -------------------------
3266 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3268 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3269 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3271 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3273 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3274 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3275 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3277 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3279 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3280 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3281 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3282 which parts a signature part applies).
3284 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3286 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3287 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3288 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3289 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3290 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3293 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3295 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3296 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3297 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3298 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3299 by translating it internally to the new call.
3301 Performance improvements
3302 ------------------------
3304 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3306 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3307 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3308 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3310 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3311 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3313 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3315 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3316 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3317 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3319 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3320 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3321 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3322 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3324 Faster initial indexing
3326 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3327 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3328 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3330 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3332 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3333 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3334 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3335 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3337 New emacs-interface features
3338 ----------------------------
3340 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3342 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3343 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3344 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3345 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3346 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3347 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3349 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3351 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3352 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3353 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3354 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3356 User-selectable From address
3358 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3359 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3360 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3361 will prompt for the from address to use.
3363 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3364 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3365 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3367 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3368 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3369 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3372 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3374 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3375 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3377 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3379 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3381 ----- Original Message -----
3383 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3384 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3385 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3386 citations work much like conventional citations.
3388 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3390 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3391 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3392 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3393 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3394 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3396 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3397 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3399 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3401 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3402 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3403 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3405 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3407 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3408 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3409 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3410 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3411 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3413 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3415 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3418 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3420 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3422 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3424 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3427 Vim interface improvements
3428 --------------------------
3430 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3432 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3433 * Implementing archive in show view
3434 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3435 * Add delete commands
3438 Bindings improvements
3439 ---------------------
3441 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3443 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3444 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3446 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3448 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3452 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3453 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3454 `list(Messages)` works now
3455 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3457 These allow, for example:
3459 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3461 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3463 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3469 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3471 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3474 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3476 New build-system features
3477 -------------------------
3479 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3481 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3482 the configure script from some other directory:
3489 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3491 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3492 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3493 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3494 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3495 manual invocation of configure.
3497 New test-suite feature
3498 ----------------------
3500 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3502 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3503 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3504 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3505 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3506 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3509 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3511 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3512 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3513 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3514 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3515 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3516 are updated to take advantage of this.
3518 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3520 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3521 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3522 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3523 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3529 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3531 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3532 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3533 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3535 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3537 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3539 to:user@elsewhere.com
3541 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3543 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3545 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3547 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3548 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3549 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3552 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3553 from the Received headers in some cases
3555 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3556 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3558 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3560 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3562 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3564 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3565 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3566 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3568 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3569 -------------------------
3571 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3573 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3574 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3575 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3577 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3579 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3580 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3581 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3584 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3586 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3587 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3588 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3589 fixed to avoid this bug.
3591 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3593 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3594 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3596 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3597 ========================
3599 New, general features
3600 ---------------------
3602 Maildir-flag synchronization
3604 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3605 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3614 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3616 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3617 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3618 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3619 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3621 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3622 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3623 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3624 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3627 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3629 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3630 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3631 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3633 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3634 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3636 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3637 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3639 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3640 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3641 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3643 New library features
3644 --------------------
3646 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3648 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3649 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3650 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3651 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3653 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3654 message with the new function:
3656 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3658 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3659 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3660 over all available filenames for a given message.
3662 New command-line features
3663 -------------------------
3665 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3667 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3668 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3669 access to the mail store itself.
3671 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3672 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3673 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3674 name of a script containing:
3676 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3678 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3679 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3685 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3687 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3689 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3691 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3692 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3693 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3694 now produces nothing).
3696 Emacs interface improvements
3697 ----------------------------
3699 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3701 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3703 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3705 Display current thread subject in a header line
3707 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3709 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3711 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3712 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3713 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3714 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3715 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3716 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3717 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3719 Vim interface improvements
3720 --------------------------
3722 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3724 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3725 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3731 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3733 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3734 ========================
3736 New command-line features
3737 -------------------------
3739 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3741 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3742 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3743 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3745 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3746 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3747 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3748 scripts. For example:
3750 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3751 <operations-on> "$file"
3754 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3756 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3757 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3758 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3759 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3760 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3761 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3763 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3765 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3766 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3767 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3768 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3770 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3772 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3773 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3774 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3775 default rather than Bcc.
3777 New library features
3778 --------------------
3780 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3782 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3783 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3788 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3790 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3791 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3792 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3793 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3794 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3795 notmuch customize interface.
3797 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3799 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3800 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3801 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3802 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3804 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3806 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3807 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3808 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3809 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3811 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3813 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3814 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3815 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3816 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3817 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3818 notmuch customize interface.
3820 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3822 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3823 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3824 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3825 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3826 notmuch customize interface.
3828 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3830 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3831 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3832 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3833 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3836 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3838 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3839 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3840 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3843 New build-system features
3844 -------------------------
3846 Various portability fixes have been applied
3848 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3849 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3850 more portable than ever before.
3852 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3854 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3855 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3856 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3858 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3859 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3860 automatically run ldconfig.
3862 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3863 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3864 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3866 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3867 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3868 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3869 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3871 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3873 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3874 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3875 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3876 used in the resulting Makefile.
3878 New test-suite features
3879 -----------------------
3881 New modularization of test suite
3883 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3884 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3885 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3886 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3887 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3888 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3889 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3890 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3892 New testing of emacs interface
3894 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3895 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3896 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3897 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3898 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3899 database via the FCC setting.
3904 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3906 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3907 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3908 persistent error of the form:
3910 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3912 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3913 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3915 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3917 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3918 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3919 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3921 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3923 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3924 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3925 parsing the notmuch results).
3927 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3929 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3932 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3933 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3934 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3939 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3941 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3942 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3943 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3944 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3945 the emacs interface.
3947 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3949 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3950 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3951 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3953 Python-binding fixes
3954 --------------------
3956 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3958 Debian-specific fixes
3959 ---------------------
3961 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3963 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3964 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3965 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3968 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3969 ==========================
3974 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3976 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3977 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3978 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3979 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3981 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3983 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3984 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3985 want notmuch to crash.
3990 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3992 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3993 directory does not exist
3998 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4000 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4001 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4003 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4004 ========================
4006 New command-line features
4007 -------------------------
4009 User-configurable tags for new messages
4011 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4012 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4013 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4014 to specify this value.
4016 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4018 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4019 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4020 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4022 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4024 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4025 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4027 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4029 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4030 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4031 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4032 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4033 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4036 Indication of author names that match a search
4038 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4039 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4040 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4041 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4042 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4043 messages in the thread are listed first.
4045 New: Python bindings
4046 --------------------
4048 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4049 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4050 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4051 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4053 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4054 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4055 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4058 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4059 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4060 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4062 Emacs interface improvements
4063 ----------------------------
4065 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4067 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4068 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4069 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4070 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4071 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4072 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4073 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4074 but without any of the disadvantages).
4076 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4077 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4078 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4081 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4082 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4083 instead running something like:
4085 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4087 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4088 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4089 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4092 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4094 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4095 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4096 tweaked by the user.
4098 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4099 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4100 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4103 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4104 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4105 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4108 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4110 This support currently relies on an external program,
4111 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4112 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4113 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4114 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4115 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4118 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4119 notmuch) is available via:
4121 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4123 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4124 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4125 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4127 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4129 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4130 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4131 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4132 making this automatic in a future release.
4134 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4136 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4137 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4138 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4139 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4140 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4141 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4144 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4146 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4147 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4148 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4150 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4152 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4153 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4154 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4156 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4157 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4158 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4159 other representation.
4161 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4162 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4165 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4167 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4168 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4169 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4171 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4172 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4173 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4175 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4177 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4178 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4179 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4180 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4181 to display the search result.
4183 More flexible handling of header visibility
4185 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4186 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4187 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4188 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4189 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4190 with the 'h' keybinding.
4192 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4193 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4194 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4196 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4198 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4200 Customizable formatting of search results
4202 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4203 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4204 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4206 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4208 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4210 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4215 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4217 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4218 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4219 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4220 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4226 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4228 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4229 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4231 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4233 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4234 accept are now all accepted.
4239 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4241 Better display of output from failed tests
4243 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4244 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4246 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4247 ========================
4249 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4250 detailed release notes this time!
4252 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4253 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4255 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4256 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4257 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4258 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4265 Better guessing of From: header
4267 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4268 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4269 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4270 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4271 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4274 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4276 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4277 guaranteed to match all messages.
4279 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4281 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4282 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4283 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4284 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4285 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4288 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4291 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4292 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4293 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4294 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4299 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4301 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4302 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4303 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4304 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4306 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4308 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4310 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4311 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4312 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4314 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4316 Previously, the user might see:
4318 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4322 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4324 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4325 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4326 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4327 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4329 Emacs client features
4330 ---------------------
4332 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4334 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4335 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4336 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4337 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4338 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4340 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4343 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4344 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4345 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4346 search with the '*' binding.
4348 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4350 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4351 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4354 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4356 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4357 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4358 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4360 Build-system features
4361 ---------------------
4363 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4365 Add support to configure for many standard options
4367 We include actual support for:
4369 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4371 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4373 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4374 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4376 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4377 separate "make install-emacs"
4379 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4381 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4382 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4383 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4385 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4388 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4389 ========================
4391 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4393 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4394 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4396 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4397 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4398 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4399 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4400 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4401 tags from messages in a thread.
4408 indent-tabs-mode: nil