[[!meta date="2013-01-18"]] Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18) ========================= General ------- ### Date range search support The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date: header) with a range syntax of `date:..`. Notmuch supports a wide variety of expressions in `` and ``. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page for details. ### Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags, but may be removed in a future release. Command-Line Interface ---------------------- ### `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one message, rather than treating the file as one giant message. ### Support for single message mboxes is deprecated For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files containing a single message; however, this behavior is now officially deprecated. ### Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering broken symlink, even if it was ignored. ### New dump/restore format and tagging interface There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing whitespace. `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new dump/restore format. ### Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers. For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable. ### CLI callers can now request a specific output format version `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling. ### `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints output separated by null characters rather than newline characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works together with the xargs(1) -0 option. Emacs Interface --------------- ### Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders` has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to `notmuch-saved-searches`. ### Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g., plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially, but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control the behavior of this, see `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`. Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer. ### Emacs now buttonizes mid: links mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate notmuch search. ### Handle errors from bodypart insertions If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts off thread display at the offending message. The error is now simply displayed in place of the message. ### Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and the notmuch CLI version are incompatible. ### Improved text/calendar content handling Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with. ### Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message` Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion, corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion. ### Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output, but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail for HTML email containing images. ### Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis. ### Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not quoted. ### `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping the point where it was. ### Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables. ### Support for stashing the thread id in show view Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current thread instead of the message id. New add-on tool: notmuch-pick ----------------------------- The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for further details and installation. Portability ----------- notmuch now builds on OpenBSD. Internal test framework changes ------------------------------- ### The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which can result in buggy behavior.