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
19 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
20 =========================
25 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
26 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
27 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
30 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
36 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
37 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
38 notmuch-properties(7)).
43 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
44 has protected headers (see
45 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
46 notmuch-properties(7)).
51 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
53 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
54 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
60 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
63 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
64 ===========================
69 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
71 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
76 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
78 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
79 ===========================
84 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
85 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
87 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
88 ===========================
93 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
95 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
96 =========================
101 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
102 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
105 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
106 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
107 the set of headers to be indexed.
109 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
112 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
113 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
114 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
117 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
118 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
119 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
121 Command Line Interface
122 ----------------------
124 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
127 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
129 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
130 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
131 more details about what is included there. This status includes
132 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
137 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
138 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
140 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
142 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
144 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
146 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
148 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
151 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
153 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
154 and may be removed in a future release.
156 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
162 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
164 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
165 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
170 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
171 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
172 cryptography support.
177 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
178 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
179 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
181 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
182 ===========================
184 Command line interface
185 ----------------------
187 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
188 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
190 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
191 ===========================
196 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
197 by message properties.
202 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
204 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
205 ===========================
210 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
215 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
216 now needed to build this documentation.
218 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
219 ===========================
224 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
225 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
227 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
228 =========================
235 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
236 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
237 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
238 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
239 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
242 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
244 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
245 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
246 correct encoding for such messages.
248 Command Line Interface
249 ----------------------
251 Support relative database paths
253 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
254 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
255 to $HOME of the invoking user.
260 Improve stderr handling
262 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
263 needed on e.g. macOS.
265 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
267 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
272 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
273 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
279 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
280 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
286 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
287 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
290 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
291 =========================
296 Add support for thread:{} queries
298 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
299 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
300 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
302 Command Line Interface
303 ----------------------
305 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
307 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
309 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
311 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
312 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
313 does not have to be available during message receipt.
318 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
324 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
325 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
327 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
328 ===========================
333 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
335 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
336 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
337 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
339 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
341 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
342 related abort in `notmuch show`.
344 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
345 ===========================
350 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
351 better late than never.
354 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
355 =========================
357 Command Line Interface
358 ----------------------
360 Support for re-indexing existing messages
362 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
363 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
364 change the way specific messages are indexed.
366 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
367 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
368 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
370 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
372 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
374 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
376 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
377 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
378 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
379 the setting of `new.tags`.
381 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
383 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
385 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
387 This inserts into the top level folder.
389 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
391 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
393 New option --output=address for notmuch address
395 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
397 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
399 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
400 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
401 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
403 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
408 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
410 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
411 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
412 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
413 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
414 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
415 config set index.decrypt true".
417 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
418 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
419 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
420 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
421 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
422 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
423 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
424 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
426 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
427 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
428 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
429 this feature without considering the security of your index.
434 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
436 Use make-process when available
438 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
439 notmuch command without using temporary files.
444 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
446 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
447 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
448 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
449 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
451 New functions to count files
453 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
454 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
456 New function to remove properties
458 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
459 drop all properties with a common pattern:
460 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
462 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
464 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
465 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
466 possibility of NULL was not documented.
468 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
470 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
471 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
472 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
473 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
474 operator may decide to change from message to message.
481 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
482 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
483 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
489 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
491 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
492 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
494 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
496 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
498 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
500 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
505 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
506 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
508 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
509 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
510 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
511 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
512 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
513 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
518 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
520 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
521 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
522 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
523 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
525 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
526 ===========================
531 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
532 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
535 Command Line Interface
536 ----------------------
538 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
539 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
542 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
543 ===========================
545 Command Line Interface
546 ----------------------
548 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
549 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
554 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
557 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
558 ===========================
563 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
566 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
567 =========================
572 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
574 Skip HTML tags when indexing
576 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
578 Command Line Interface
579 ----------------------
581 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
583 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
588 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
590 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
591 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
594 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
599 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
601 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
602 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
604 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
606 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
607 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
610 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
612 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
614 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
616 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
617 ===========================
619 Command Line Interface
620 ----------------------
622 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
627 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
629 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
630 ===========================
635 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
637 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
638 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
641 Command Line Interface
642 ----------------------
644 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
646 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
648 Fix bug in dump header
650 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
651 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
652 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
657 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
659 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
660 =========================
665 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
667 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
670 Command Line Interface
671 ----------------------
673 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
675 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
676 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
677 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
679 New default output format to 3
681 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
682 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
683 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
684 default format changes.
689 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
691 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
692 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
693 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
694 or tree view to resume.
696 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
697 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
698 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
701 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
702 they were when you postponed in the final message.
706 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
707 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
708 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
709 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
710 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
714 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
715 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
716 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
717 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
718 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
719 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
723 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
724 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
726 Stop display of `application/*` parts
728 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
729 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
730 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
731 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
732 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
733 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
734 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
735 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
738 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
740 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
741 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
742 only tagged the current thread.)
744 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
746 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
747 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
748 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
750 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
752 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
753 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
754 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
755 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
756 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
757 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
758 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
760 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
762 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
763 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
764 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
769 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
771 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
774 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
776 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
779 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
780 ===========================
785 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
787 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
788 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
789 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
792 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
793 ===========================
795 Command Line Interface
796 ----------------------
798 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
803 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
805 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
806 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
807 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
809 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
810 ===========================
815 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
816 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
818 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
819 ===========================
821 Command Line Interface
822 ----------------------
824 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
826 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
827 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
828 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
833 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
835 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
836 ===========================
838 Command Line Interface
839 ----------------------
841 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
846 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
848 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
849 ===========================
854 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
856 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
857 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
858 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
860 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
862 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
864 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
865 ===========================
870 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
872 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
877 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
879 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
880 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
881 the original colours.
883 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
884 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
886 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
888 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
889 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
890 bug, and hence the test.
892 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
893 =========================
895 General (Xapian 1.4+)
896 ---------------------
898 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
900 Support for single argument date: queries
902 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
904 Support for blocking opens
906 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
907 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
909 Support for named queries
911 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
912 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
913 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
920 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
921 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
922 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
923 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
925 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
927 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
932 Support for compile time options
934 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
935 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
938 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
940 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
941 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
942 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
943 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
944 scripts to ignore it.
949 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
951 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
952 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
953 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
955 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
956 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
957 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
958 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
959 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
960 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
961 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
963 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
964 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
967 Make internal address completion customizable
969 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
970 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
971 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
972 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
975 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
977 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
978 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
979 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
980 completion for the current buffer.
982 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
983 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
984 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
988 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
989 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
990 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
991 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
992 will be added instead.
994 Face customization is easier
996 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
997 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
998 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
999 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1001 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1006 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1011 Go bindings moved to contrib
1013 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1015 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1017 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1018 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1020 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1022 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1023 ===========================
1030 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1031 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1033 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1035 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1037 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1038 ===========================
1043 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1045 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1050 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1055 Use `env` to locate perl.
1060 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1062 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1064 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1066 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1068 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1069 =========================
1076 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1077 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1079 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1081 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1082 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1083 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1088 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1089 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1090 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1092 Command Line Interface
1093 ----------------------
1095 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1097 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1102 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1107 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1109 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1110 parts are now included in replies.
1112 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1113 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1114 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1115 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1117 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1119 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1121 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1123 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1124 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1125 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1126 forwards only the current message.
1128 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1130 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1131 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1132 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1133 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1134 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1135 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1136 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1137 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1140 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1141 longer generate empty buffers
1143 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1144 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1145 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1146 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1147 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1149 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1151 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1154 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1156 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1159 Address completion improvements
1161 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1162 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1163 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1164 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1165 interactive address completion.
1167 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1169 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1170 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1171 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1176 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1177 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1178 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1184 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1185 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1186 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1187 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1188 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1189 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1191 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1192 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1193 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1194 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1195 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1196 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1198 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1199 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1201 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1202 =========================
1207 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1210 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1212 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1213 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1214 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1216 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1217 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1219 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1220 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1221 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1223 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1225 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1226 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1227 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1228 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1229 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1230 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1235 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1236 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1239 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1240 option to configure.
1242 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1244 Command Line Interface
1245 ----------------------
1247 Database revision tracking
1249 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1250 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1251 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1252 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1254 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1256 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1257 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1258 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1259 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1260 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1261 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1262 manual page for further information.
1267 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1269 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1270 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1272 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1274 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1275 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1276 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1278 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1280 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1282 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1283 customization as well.
1285 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1287 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1289 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1291 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1293 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1294 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1295 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1296 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1298 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1300 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1301 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1302 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1303 this variable to 10000.
1308 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1309 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1311 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1313 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1314 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1315 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1316 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1317 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1318 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1319 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1320 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1321 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1324 Database revision tracking
1326 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1327 query parser and the new function
1328 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1330 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1332 Deprecated functions
1334 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1335 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1336 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1337 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1342 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1344 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1345 ===========================
1350 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1352 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1353 ===========================
1358 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1360 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1361 =========================
1363 Command-Line Interface
1364 ----------------------
1366 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1368 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1369 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1370 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1372 Path to gpg is now configurable
1374 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1375 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1380 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1382 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1387 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1392 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1397 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1399 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1400 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1402 New error logging facility
1404 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1405 output formerly printed to stderr.
1407 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1409 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1411 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1413 Fix for rounding of seconds
1418 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1420 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1421 documentation has been removed.
1423 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1425 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1426 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1431 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1432 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1433 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1438 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1439 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1440 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1441 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1442 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1443 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1446 git checkout config origin/config
1448 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1450 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1451 =========================
1456 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1457 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1458 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1459 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1460 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1461 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1462 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1464 Command-Line Interface
1465 ----------------------
1467 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1469 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1470 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1471 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1472 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1473 script callers should still check the return value.
1475 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1477 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1478 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1479 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1480 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1481 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1482 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1483 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1485 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1487 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1488 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1489 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1491 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1493 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1494 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1495 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1496 currently unmaintained.
1498 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1500 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1501 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1502 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1503 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1505 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1507 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1508 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1509 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1510 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1511 count of duplicate addresses.
1516 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1518 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1519 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1520 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1523 Improved handling of the unread tag
1525 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1526 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1527 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1528 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1529 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1530 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1531 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1533 Expanded default saved search settings
1535 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1536 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1538 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1540 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1541 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1542 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1544 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1546 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1547 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1548 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1549 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1550 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1551 the variable for details.
1556 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1558 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1559 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1560 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1561 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1563 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1565 Previously, library users were required to call
1566 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1567 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1568 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1569 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1570 too out of date for that API.
1572 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1574 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1575 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1576 atomic section will be aborted.
1578 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1579 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1581 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1583 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1584 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1585 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1586 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1587 messages into the same thread.
1592 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1593 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1594 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1595 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1596 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1597 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1602 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1603 from the config file. Use something like:
1607 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1608 "footer": "</body></html>",
1617 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1622 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1623 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1624 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1626 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1627 ===========================
1632 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1634 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1636 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1638 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1639 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1641 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1643 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1646 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1647 ===========================
1649 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1654 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1656 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1658 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1660 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1662 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1668 Use --quick when starting emacs
1670 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1672 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1674 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1676 Command-Line Interface
1677 ----------------------
1679 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1680 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1685 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1687 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1688 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1690 Fix for phrase indexing
1692 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1693 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1694 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1699 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1701 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1702 unintentionally removed.
1704 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1705 =========================
1710 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1711 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1712 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1713 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1714 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1715 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1716 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1717 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1718 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1724 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1726 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1727 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1728 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1729 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1730 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1731 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1732 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1733 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1735 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1737 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1738 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1739 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1740 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1743 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1745 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1746 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1747 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1748 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1749 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1750 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1751 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1756 Notmuch database upgrade
1758 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1759 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1760 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1761 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1762 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1763 released version of Notmuch before now.
1765 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1767 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1768 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1769 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1770 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1772 Message header parsing changes
1774 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1775 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1776 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1777 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1778 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1779 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1781 Command-Line Interface
1782 ----------------------
1784 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1786 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1788 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1790 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1792 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1794 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1795 user does not want it.
1797 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1799 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1800 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1801 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1802 support formatted output.
1804 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1806 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1807 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1808 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1816 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1817 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1818 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1819 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1820 `~/.emacs` with these.
1822 Changed format for saved searches
1824 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1825 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1826 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1827 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1830 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1831 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1832 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1833 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1835 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1836 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1837 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1839 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1840 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1841 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1842 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1843 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1845 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1847 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1848 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1849 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1851 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1853 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1854 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1855 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1856 message had been unread).
1858 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1859 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1860 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1861 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1863 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1864 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1865 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1867 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1868 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1869 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1870 to tags already present.
1874 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1875 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1876 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1877 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1878 these differ from each other.
1879 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1881 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1883 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1884 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1885 for these Emacs versions.
1887 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1889 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1890 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1892 Bug fixes for sender identities
1894 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1895 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1896 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1898 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1900 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1901 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1902 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1903 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1905 Reply pushes mark before signature
1907 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1908 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1909 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1911 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1913 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1914 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1920 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1921 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1923 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1924 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1925 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1926 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1928 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1929 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1930 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1931 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1932 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1934 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1936 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1937 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1939 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1940 =========================
1942 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1943 ---------------------------------------
1945 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1946 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1947 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1948 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1949 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1950 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1951 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1955 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1956 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1958 Command-Line Interface
1959 ----------------------
1961 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1963 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1964 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1965 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1966 print for each message.
1968 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1969 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1970 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1971 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1973 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1975 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1976 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1977 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1979 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1981 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1982 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1983 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1984 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1986 `notmuch compact` command
1988 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1989 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1990 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1991 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1992 move the compacted database into place.
1997 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1999 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2000 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2001 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2002 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2003 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2004 and multiple threads.
2006 Using `notmuch-tree`
2008 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2010 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2011 search, show and tree mode itself)
2013 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2016 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2017 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2019 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2021 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2022 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2023 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2024 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2025 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2026 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2027 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2029 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2031 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2032 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2033 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2034 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2035 thread when the search was performed.
2037 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2039 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2040 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2041 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2043 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2045 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2046 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2049 Built-in help improvements
2051 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2052 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2053 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2055 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2057 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2058 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2059 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2061 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2063 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2064 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2066 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2068 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2069 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2070 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2071 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2073 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2075 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2076 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2077 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2078 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2080 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2082 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2083 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2084 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2086 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2088 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2089 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2090 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2092 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2094 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2095 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2096 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2097 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2098 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2100 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2102 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2103 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2104 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2105 the body part of the message.
2110 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2111 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2112 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2114 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2115 =========================
2117 Command-Line Interface
2118 ----------------------
2120 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2122 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2123 folder and notmuch index.
2125 `notmuch count --batch` option
2127 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2128 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2130 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2132 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2133 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2134 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2137 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2139 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2140 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2141 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2142 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2143 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2146 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2148 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2149 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2151 Top level option to specify configuration file
2153 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2154 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2156 Bash command-line completion
2158 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2159 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2160 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2161 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2162 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2163 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2164 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2165 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2166 bash-completion package.
2168 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2173 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2175 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2176 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2177 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2178 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2179 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2180 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2181 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2182 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2184 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2186 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2187 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2188 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2190 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2192 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2193 previous thread in the search results.
2195 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2197 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2198 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2200 Faster search and show
2202 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2203 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2204 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2205 threads should show faster.
2209 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2210 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2211 in question was now removed from this release.
2216 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2217 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2222 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2224 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2225 ===========================
2230 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2232 Internal test framework changes
2233 -------------------------------
2235 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2236 being unimplemented.
2238 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2239 ===========================
2241 Internal test framework changes
2242 -------------------------------
2244 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2245 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2247 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2248 =========================
2253 Date range search support
2255 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2256 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2257 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2258 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2259 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2262 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2264 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2265 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2266 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2267 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2268 but may be removed in a future release.
2270 Command-Line Interface
2271 ----------------------
2273 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2275 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2276 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2278 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2280 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2281 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2282 officially deprecated.
2284 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2286 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2287 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2288 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2290 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2292 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2293 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2296 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2297 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2298 dump/restore format.
2300 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2302 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2303 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2304 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2306 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2308 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2309 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2310 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2312 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2314 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2315 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2316 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2317 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2322 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2324 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2325 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2326 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2327 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2329 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2331 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2332 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2333 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2334 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2335 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2336 the behavior of this, see
2337 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2338 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2340 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2341 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2342 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2344 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2346 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2347 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2350 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2352 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2353 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2354 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2355 simply displayed in place of the message.
2357 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2359 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2360 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2362 Improved text/calendar content handling
2364 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2365 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2366 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2367 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2369 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2371 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2372 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2373 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2374 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2376 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2378 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2379 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2380 for HTML email containing images.
2382 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2384 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2386 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2388 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2391 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2393 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2394 the point where it was.
2396 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2398 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2399 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2400 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2401 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2402 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2404 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2406 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2407 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2408 thread instead of the message id.
2410 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2411 -----------------------------
2413 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2414 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2415 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2416 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2417 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2418 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2419 further details and installation.
2424 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2426 Internal test framework changes
2427 -------------------------------
2429 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2431 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2432 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2433 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2434 can result in buggy behavior.
2436 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2437 =========================
2442 Maildir tag synchronization
2444 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2445 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2446 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2447 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2448 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2449 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2452 Command-Line Interface
2453 ----------------------
2455 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2456 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2457 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2458 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2459 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2465 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2467 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2469 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2470 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2471 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2473 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2475 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2476 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2477 span multiple lines.
2479 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2481 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2482 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2483 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2484 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2485 inside the result or message.
2487 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2489 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2490 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2492 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2493 user-specified formatting
2495 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2496 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2497 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2498 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2499 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2501 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2502 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2504 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2505 ===========================
2510 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2511 compilation error for this contrib package.
2513 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2514 ===========================
2519 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2521 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2522 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2523 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2524 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2526 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2527 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2530 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2531 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2532 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2533 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2536 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2538 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2541 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2542 =========================
2544 Command-Line Interface
2545 ----------------------
2549 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2550 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2551 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2552 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2554 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2555 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2556 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2557 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2561 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2562 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2564 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2565 tag in your query, for example:
2567 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2569 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2570 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2572 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2573 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2575 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2577 Raw show format changes
2579 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2580 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2581 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2582 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2583 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2584 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2585 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2586 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2588 Listing configuration items
2590 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2596 Changes to tagging interface
2598 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2599 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2600 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2601 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2602 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2603 for more information.
2605 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2606 may need to update in custom configurations.
2608 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2610 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2611 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2612 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2613 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2616 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2617 -----------------------------
2619 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2620 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2621 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2622 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2623 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2624 contrib/ from now on.
2629 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2630 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2632 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2633 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2635 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2636 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2637 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2639 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2640 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2642 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2643 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2644 returning the new database object or directory object.
2651 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2652 compatible with go 1.
2654 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2655 =========================
2657 Command-Line Interface
2658 ----------------------
2662 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2663 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2664 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2665 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2667 Mail store folder/file ignore
2669 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2670 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2671 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2673 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2674 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2676 Unified help and manual pages
2678 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2679 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2682 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2684 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2685 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2693 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2694 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2695 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2696 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2698 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2700 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2701 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2703 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2706 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2707 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2708 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2710 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2712 should be changed to:
2714 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2716 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2718 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2719 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2721 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2723 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2724 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2725 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2726 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2727 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2728 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2732 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2733 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2734 of Mailing List Archives.
2736 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2738 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2739 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2742 Show view archiving key binding changes
2744 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2745 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2746 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2747 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2748 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2751 Support text/calendar MIME type
2753 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2756 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2758 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2759 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2760 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2761 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2763 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2765 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2766 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2767 messages blue by default in the search view.
2771 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2772 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2779 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2782 Python bindings changes
2783 -----------------------
2785 Python 3.2 compatibility
2787 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2789 Added missing unicode conversions
2791 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2792 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2793 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2798 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2800 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2801 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2802 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2803 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2804 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2806 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2807 ===========================
2812 Fix error handling in python bindings
2814 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2815 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2816 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2817 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2819 Quote MML tags in replies
2821 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2822 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2823 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2824 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2825 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2826 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2827 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2828 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2830 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2831 =========================
2833 Command-Line Interface
2834 ----------------------
2838 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2839 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2840 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2841 importing new messages into the database.
2843 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2845 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2846 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2847 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2852 Automatic tag query optimization
2854 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2855 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2856 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2858 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2860 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2861 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2862 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2867 Reduction of memory leaks
2869 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2870 and fixed in this release.
2877 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2878 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2879 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2882 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2884 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2885 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2886 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2889 Improvements in saved search management
2891 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2892 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2893 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2895 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2897 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2898 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2899 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2901 New face for crypto parts headers
2903 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2904 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2905 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2908 Use space as default thousands separator
2910 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2911 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2912 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2914 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2915 buttonized id: links
2917 New function notmuch-show-advance
2919 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2920 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2921 be bound to SPC with:
2923 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2925 Various performance improvements
2930 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2931 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2934 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2935 ===========================
2940 Fix crash in python bindings
2942 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2943 for some, but not all users.
2945 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2946 ===========================
2951 Fix `--help` argument
2953 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2954 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2955 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2957 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2958 =========================
2960 New build and testing features
2961 ------------------------------
2963 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2964 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2965 prerequisites is improved.
2967 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2969 New command-line features
2970 -------------------------
2972 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2974 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2975 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2978 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2980 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2981 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2982 favour of using stdout.
2984 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2986 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2987 limit the number of results shown.
2989 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2991 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2992 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2995 New emacs UI features
2996 ---------------------
2998 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3000 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3001 starting with "tag:".
3003 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3005 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3006 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3008 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3010 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3012 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3014 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3015 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3020 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3022 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3024 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3025 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3026 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3027 requires a database rebuild:
3029 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3030 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3032 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3034 New collection of add-on tools
3035 ------------------------------
3037 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3038 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3039 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3042 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3044 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3045 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3046 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3048 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3049 ========================
3051 New, general features
3052 ---------------------
3054 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3056 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3057 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3058 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3059 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3060 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3067 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3068 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3070 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3074 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3075 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3076 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3079 Python bindings changes
3080 -----------------------
3082 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3084 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3085 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3086 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3087 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3088 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3089 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3091 Ruby bindings changes
3092 ---------------------
3094 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3095 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3096 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3097 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3102 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3104 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3105 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3107 Reply formatting cleanup
3108 ------------------------
3110 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3111 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3113 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3114 ========================
3116 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3118 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3119 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3120 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3121 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3124 Improved Build system portability
3126 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3127 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3128 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3130 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3132 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3134 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3136 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3137 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3138 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3140 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3141 ========================
3143 Vim interface improvements
3144 --------------------------
3146 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3148 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3149 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3150 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3151 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3152 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3154 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3156 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3157 * fix compose temp file name
3159 Python Bindings changes
3160 -----------------------
3162 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3164 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3165 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3167 Build-System improvements
3168 -------------------------
3170 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3172 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3175 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3176 ==========================
3181 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3183 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3184 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3186 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3187 =======================
3189 New, general features
3190 ---------------------
3192 Folder-based searching
3194 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3195 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3196 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3200 For example, one might use things such as:
3206 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3207 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3209 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3210 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3211 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3212 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3214 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3215 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3216 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3219 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3220 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3222 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3224 Support for PGP/MIME
3226 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3227 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3228 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3230 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3232 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3233 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3235 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3236 notmuch will receive these tags.
3238 New command-line features
3239 -------------------------
3241 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3243 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3244 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3246 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3248 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3249 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3250 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3252 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3254 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3255 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3256 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3257 which parts a signature part applies).
3259 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3261 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3262 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3263 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3264 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3265 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3268 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3270 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3271 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3272 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3273 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3274 by translating it internally to the new call.
3276 Performance improvements
3277 ------------------------
3279 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3281 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3282 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3283 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3285 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3286 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3288 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3290 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3291 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3292 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3294 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3295 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3296 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3297 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3299 Faster initial indexing
3301 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3302 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3303 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3305 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3307 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3308 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3309 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3310 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3312 New emacs-interface features
3313 ----------------------------
3315 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3317 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3318 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3319 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3320 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3321 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3322 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3324 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3326 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3327 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3328 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3329 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3331 User-selectable From address
3333 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3334 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3335 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3336 will prompt for the from address to use.
3338 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3339 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3340 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3342 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3343 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3344 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3347 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3349 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3350 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3352 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3354 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3356 ----- Original Message -----
3358 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3359 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3360 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3361 citations work much like conventional citations.
3363 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3365 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3366 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3367 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3368 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3369 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3371 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3372 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3374 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3376 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3377 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3378 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3380 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3382 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3383 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3384 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3385 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3386 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3388 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3390 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3393 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3395 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3397 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3399 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3402 Vim interface improvements
3403 --------------------------
3405 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3407 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3408 * Implementing archive in show view
3409 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3410 * Add delete commands
3413 Bindings improvements
3414 ---------------------
3416 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3418 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3419 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3421 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3423 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3427 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3428 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3429 `list(Messages)` works now
3430 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3432 These allow, for example:
3434 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3436 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3438 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3444 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3446 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3449 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3451 New build-system features
3452 -------------------------
3454 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3456 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3457 the configure script from some other directory:
3464 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3466 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3467 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3468 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3469 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3470 manual invocation of configure.
3472 New test-suite feature
3473 ----------------------
3475 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3477 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3478 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3479 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3480 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3481 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3484 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3486 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3487 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3488 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3489 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3490 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3491 are updated to take advantage of this.
3493 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3495 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3496 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3497 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3498 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3504 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3506 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3507 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3508 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3510 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3512 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3514 to:user@elsewhere.com
3516 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3518 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3520 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3522 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3523 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3524 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3527 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3528 from the Received headers in some cases
3530 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3531 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3533 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3535 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3537 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3539 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3540 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3541 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3543 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3544 -------------------------
3546 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3548 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3549 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3550 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3552 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3554 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3555 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3556 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3559 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3561 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3562 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3563 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3564 fixed to avoid this bug.
3566 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3568 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3569 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3571 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3572 ========================
3574 New, general features
3575 ---------------------
3577 Maildir-flag synchronization
3579 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3580 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3589 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3591 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3592 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3593 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3594 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3596 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3597 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3598 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3599 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3602 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3604 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3605 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3606 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3608 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3609 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3611 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3612 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3614 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3615 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3616 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3618 New library features
3619 --------------------
3621 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3623 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3624 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3625 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3626 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3628 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3629 message with the new function:
3631 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3633 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3634 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3635 over all available filenames for a given message.
3637 New command-line features
3638 -------------------------
3640 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3642 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3643 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3644 access to the mail store itself.
3646 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3647 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3648 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3649 name of a script containing:
3651 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3653 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3654 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3660 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3662 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3664 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3666 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3667 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3668 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3669 now produces nothing).
3671 Emacs interface improvements
3672 ----------------------------
3674 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3676 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3678 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3680 Display current thread subject in a header line
3682 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3684 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3686 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3687 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3688 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3689 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3690 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3691 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3692 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3694 Vim interface improvements
3695 --------------------------
3697 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3699 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3700 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3706 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3708 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3709 ========================
3711 New command-line features
3712 -------------------------
3714 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3716 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3717 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3718 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3720 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3721 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3722 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3723 scripts. For example:
3725 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3726 <operations-on> "$file"
3729 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3731 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3732 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3733 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3734 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3735 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3736 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3738 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3740 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3741 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3742 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3743 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3745 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3747 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3748 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3749 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3750 default rather than Bcc.
3752 New library features
3753 --------------------
3755 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3757 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3758 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3763 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3765 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3766 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3767 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3768 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3769 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3770 notmuch customize interface.
3772 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3774 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3775 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3776 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3777 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3779 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3781 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3782 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3783 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3784 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3786 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3788 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3789 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3790 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3791 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3792 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3793 notmuch customize interface.
3795 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3797 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3798 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3799 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3800 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3801 notmuch customize interface.
3803 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3805 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3806 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3807 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3808 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3811 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3813 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3814 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3815 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3818 New build-system features
3819 -------------------------
3821 Various portability fixes have been applied
3823 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3824 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3825 more portable than ever before.
3827 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3829 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3830 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3831 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3833 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3834 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3835 automatically run ldconfig.
3837 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3838 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3839 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3841 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3842 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3843 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3844 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3846 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3848 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3849 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3850 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3851 used in the resulting Makefile.
3853 New test-suite features
3854 -----------------------
3856 New modularization of test suite
3858 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3859 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3860 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3861 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3862 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3863 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3864 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3865 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3867 New testing of emacs interface
3869 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3870 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3871 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3872 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3873 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3874 database via the FCC setting.
3879 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3881 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3882 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3883 persistent error of the form:
3885 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3887 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3888 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3890 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3892 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3893 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3894 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3896 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3898 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3899 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3900 parsing the notmuch results).
3902 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3904 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3907 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3908 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3909 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3914 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3916 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3917 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3918 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3919 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3920 the emacs interface.
3922 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3924 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3925 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3926 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3928 Python-binding fixes
3929 --------------------
3931 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3933 Debian-specific fixes
3934 ---------------------
3936 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3938 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3939 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3940 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3943 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3944 ==========================
3949 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3951 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3952 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3953 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3954 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3956 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3958 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3959 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3960 want notmuch to crash.
3965 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3967 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3968 directory does not exist
3973 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3975 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3976 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3978 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3979 ========================
3981 New command-line features
3982 -------------------------
3984 User-configurable tags for new messages
3986 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3987 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3988 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3989 to specify this value.
3991 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3993 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3994 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3995 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3997 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3999 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4000 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4002 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4004 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4005 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4006 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4007 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4008 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4011 Indication of author names that match a search
4013 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4014 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4015 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4016 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4017 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4018 messages in the thread are listed first.
4020 New: Python bindings
4021 --------------------
4023 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4024 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4025 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4026 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4028 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4029 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4030 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4033 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4034 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4035 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4037 Emacs interface improvements
4038 ----------------------------
4040 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4042 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4043 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4044 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4045 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4046 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4047 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4048 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4049 but without any of the disadvantages).
4051 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4052 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4053 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4056 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4057 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4058 instead running something like:
4060 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4062 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4063 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4064 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4067 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4069 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4070 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4071 tweaked by the user.
4073 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4074 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4075 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4078 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4079 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4080 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4083 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4085 This support currently relies on an external program,
4086 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4087 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4088 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4089 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4090 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4093 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4094 notmuch) is available via:
4096 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4098 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4099 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4100 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4102 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4104 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4105 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4106 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4107 making this automatic in a future release.
4109 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4111 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4112 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4113 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4114 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4115 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4116 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4119 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4121 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4122 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4123 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4125 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4127 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4128 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4129 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4131 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4132 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4133 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4134 other representation.
4136 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4137 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4140 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4142 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4143 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4144 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4146 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4147 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4148 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4150 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4152 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4153 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4154 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4155 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4156 to display the search result.
4158 More flexible handling of header visibility
4160 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4161 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4162 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4163 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4164 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4165 with the 'h' keybinding.
4167 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4168 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4169 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4171 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4173 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4175 Customizable formatting of search results
4177 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4178 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4179 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4181 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4183 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4185 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4190 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4192 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4193 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4194 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4195 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4201 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4203 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4204 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4206 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4208 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4209 accept are now all accepted.
4214 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4216 Better display of output from failed tests
4218 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4219 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4221 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4222 ========================
4224 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4225 detailed release notes this time!
4227 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4228 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4230 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4231 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4232 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4233 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4240 Better guessing of From: header
4242 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4243 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4244 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4245 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4246 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4249 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4251 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4252 guaranteed to match all messages.
4254 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4256 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4257 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4258 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4259 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4260 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4263 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4266 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4267 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4268 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4269 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4274 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4276 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4277 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4278 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4279 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4281 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4283 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4285 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4286 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4287 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4289 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4291 Previously, the user might see:
4293 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4297 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4299 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4300 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4301 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4302 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4304 Emacs client features
4305 ---------------------
4307 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4309 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4310 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4311 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4312 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4313 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4315 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4318 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4319 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4320 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4321 search with the '*' binding.
4323 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4325 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4326 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4329 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4331 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4332 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4333 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4335 Build-system features
4336 ---------------------
4338 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4340 Add support to configure for many standard options
4342 We include actual support for:
4344 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4346 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4348 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4349 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4351 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4352 separate "make install-emacs"
4354 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4356 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4357 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4358 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4360 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4363 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4364 ========================
4366 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4368 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4369 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4371 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4372 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4373 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4374 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4375 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4376 tags from messages in a thread.
4383 indent-tabs-mode: nil