1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
10 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
11 ===========================
16 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
21 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
22 now needed to build this documentation.
24 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
25 ===========================
30 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
31 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
33 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
34 =========================
41 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
42 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
43 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
44 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
45 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
48 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
50 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
51 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
52 correct encoding for such messages.
54 Command Line Interface
55 ----------------------
57 Support relative database paths
59 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
60 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
61 to $HOME of the invoking user.
66 Improve stderr handling
68 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
71 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
73 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
78 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
79 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
85 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
86 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
92 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
93 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
96 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
97 =========================
102 Add support for thread:{} queries
104 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
105 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
106 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
108 Command Line Interface
109 ----------------------
111 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
113 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
115 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
117 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
118 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
119 does not have to be available during message receipt.
124 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
130 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
131 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
133 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
134 ===========================
139 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
141 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
142 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
143 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
145 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
147 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
148 related abort in `notmuch show`.
150 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
151 ===========================
156 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
157 better late than never.
160 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
161 =========================
163 Command Line Interface
164 ----------------------
166 Support for re-indexing existing messages
168 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
169 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
170 change the way specific messages are indexed.
172 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
173 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
174 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
176 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
178 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
180 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
182 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
183 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
184 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
185 the setting of `new.tags`.
187 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
189 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
191 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
193 This inserts into the top level folder.
195 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
197 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
199 New option --output=address for notmuch address
201 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
203 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
205 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
206 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
207 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
209 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
214 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
216 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
217 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
218 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
219 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
220 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
221 config set index.decrypt true".
223 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
224 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
225 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
226 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
227 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
228 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
229 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
230 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
232 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
233 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
234 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
235 this feature without considering the security of your index.
240 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
242 Use make-process when available
244 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
245 notmuch command without using temporary files.
250 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
252 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
253 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
254 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
255 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
257 New functions to count files
259 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
260 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
262 New function to remove properties
264 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
265 drop all properties with a common pattern:
266 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
268 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
270 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
271 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
272 possibility of NULL was not documented.
274 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
276 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
277 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
278 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
279 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
280 operator may decide to change from message to message.
287 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
288 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
289 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
295 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
297 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
298 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
300 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
302 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
304 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
306 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
311 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
312 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
314 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
315 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
316 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
317 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
318 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
319 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
324 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
326 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
327 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
328 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
329 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
331 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
332 ===========================
337 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
338 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
341 Command Line Interface
342 ----------------------
344 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
345 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
348 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
349 ===========================
351 Command Line Interface
352 ----------------------
354 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
355 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
360 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
363 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
364 ===========================
369 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
372 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
373 =========================
378 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
380 Skip HTML tags when indexing
382 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
384 Command Line Interface
385 ----------------------
387 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
389 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
394 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
396 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
397 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
400 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
405 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
407 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
408 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
410 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
412 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
413 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
416 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
418 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
420 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
422 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
423 ===========================
425 Command Line Interface
426 ----------------------
428 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
433 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
435 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
436 ===========================
441 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
443 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
444 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
447 Command Line Interface
448 ----------------------
450 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
452 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
454 Fix bug in dump header
456 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
457 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
458 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
463 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
465 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
466 =========================
471 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
473 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
476 Command Line Interface
477 ----------------------
479 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
481 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
482 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
483 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
485 New default output format to 3
487 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
488 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
489 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
490 default format changes.
495 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
497 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
498 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
499 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
500 or tree view to resume.
502 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
503 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
504 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
507 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
508 they were when you postponed in the final message.
512 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
513 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
514 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
515 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
516 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
520 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
521 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
522 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
523 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
524 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
525 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
529 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
530 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
532 Stop display of `application/*` parts
534 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
535 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
536 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
537 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
538 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
539 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
540 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
541 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
544 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
546 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
547 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
548 only tagged the current thread.)
550 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
552 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
553 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
554 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
556 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
558 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
559 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
560 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
561 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
562 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
563 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
564 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
566 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
568 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
569 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
570 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
575 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
577 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
580 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
582 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
585 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
586 ===========================
591 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
593 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
594 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
595 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
598 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
599 ===========================
601 Command Line Interface
602 ----------------------
604 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
609 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
611 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
612 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
613 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
615 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
616 ===========================
621 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
622 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
624 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
625 ===========================
627 Command Line Interface
628 ----------------------
630 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
632 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
633 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
634 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
639 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
641 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
642 ===========================
644 Command Line Interface
645 ----------------------
647 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
652 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
654 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
655 ===========================
660 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
662 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
663 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
664 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
666 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
668 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
670 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
671 ===========================
676 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
678 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
683 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
685 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
686 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
687 the original colours.
689 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
690 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
692 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
694 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
695 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
696 bug, and hence the test.
698 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
699 =========================
701 General (Xapian 1.4+)
702 ---------------------
704 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
706 Support for single argument date: queries
708 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
710 Support for blocking opens
712 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
713 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
715 Support for named queries
717 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
718 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
719 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
726 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
727 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
728 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
729 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
731 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
733 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
738 Support for compile time options
740 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
741 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
744 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
746 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
747 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
748 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
749 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
750 scripts to ignore it.
755 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
757 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
758 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
759 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
761 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
762 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
763 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
764 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
765 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
766 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
767 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
769 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
770 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
773 Make internal address completion customizable
775 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
776 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
777 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
778 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
781 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
783 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
784 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
785 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
786 completion for the current buffer.
788 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
789 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
790 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
794 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
795 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
796 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
797 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
798 will be added instead.
800 Face customization is easier
802 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
803 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
804 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
805 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
807 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
812 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
817 Go bindings moved to contrib
819 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
821 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
823 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
824 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
826 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
828 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
829 ===========================
836 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
837 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
839 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
841 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
843 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
844 ===========================
849 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
851 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
856 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
861 Use `env` to locate perl.
866 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
868 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
870 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
872 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
874 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
875 =========================
882 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
883 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
885 Limited support for S/MIME messages
887 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
888 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
889 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
894 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
895 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
896 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
898 Command Line Interface
899 ----------------------
901 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
903 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
908 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
913 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
915 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
916 parts are now included in replies.
918 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
919 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
920 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
921 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
923 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
925 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
927 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
929 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
930 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
931 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
932 forwards only the current message.
934 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
936 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
937 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
938 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
939 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
940 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
941 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
942 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
943 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
946 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
947 longer generate empty buffers
949 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
950 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
951 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
952 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
953 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
955 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
957 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
960 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
962 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
965 Address completion improvements
967 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
968 you previously configured one, customize the variable
969 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
970 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
971 interactive address completion.
973 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
975 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
976 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
977 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
982 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
983 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
984 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
990 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
991 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
992 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
993 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
994 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
995 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
997 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
998 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
999 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1000 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1001 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1002 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1004 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1005 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1007 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1008 =========================
1013 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1016 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1018 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1019 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1020 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1022 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1023 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1025 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1026 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1027 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1029 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1031 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1032 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1033 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1034 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1035 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1036 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1041 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1042 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1045 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1046 option to configure.
1048 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1050 Command Line Interface
1051 ----------------------
1053 Database revision tracking
1055 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1056 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1057 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1058 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1060 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1062 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1063 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1064 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1065 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1066 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1067 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1068 manual page for further information.
1073 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1075 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1076 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1078 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1080 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1081 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1082 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1084 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1086 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1088 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1089 customization as well.
1091 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1093 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1095 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1097 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1099 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1100 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1101 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1102 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1104 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1106 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1107 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1108 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1109 this variable to 10000.
1114 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1115 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1117 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1119 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1120 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1121 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1122 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1123 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1124 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1125 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1126 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1127 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1130 Database revision tracking
1132 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1133 query parser and the new function
1134 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1136 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1138 Deprecated functions
1140 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1141 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1142 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1143 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1148 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1150 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1151 ===========================
1156 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1158 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1159 ===========================
1164 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1166 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1167 =========================
1169 Command-Line Interface
1170 ----------------------
1172 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1174 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1175 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1176 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1178 Path to gpg is now configurable
1180 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1181 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1186 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1188 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1193 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1198 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1203 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1205 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1206 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1208 New error logging facility
1210 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1211 output formerly printed to stderr.
1213 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1215 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1217 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1219 Fix for rounding of seconds
1224 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1226 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1227 documentation has been removed.
1229 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1231 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1232 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1237 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1238 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1239 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1244 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1245 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1246 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1247 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1248 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1249 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1252 git checkout config origin/config
1254 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1256 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1257 =========================
1262 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1263 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1264 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1265 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1266 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1267 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1268 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1270 Command-Line Interface
1271 ----------------------
1273 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1275 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1276 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1277 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1278 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1279 script callers should still check the return value.
1281 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1283 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1284 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1285 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1286 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1287 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1288 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1289 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1291 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1293 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1294 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1295 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1297 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1299 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1300 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1301 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1302 currently unmaintained.
1304 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1306 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1307 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1308 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1309 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1311 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1313 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1314 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1315 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1316 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1317 count of duplicate addresses.
1322 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1324 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1325 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1326 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1329 Improved handling of the unread tag
1331 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1332 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1333 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1334 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1335 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1336 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1337 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1339 Expanded default saved search settings
1341 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1342 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1344 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1346 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1347 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1348 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1350 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1352 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1353 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1354 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1355 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1356 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1357 the variable for details.
1362 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1364 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1365 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1366 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1367 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1369 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1371 Previously, library users were required to call
1372 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1373 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1374 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1375 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1376 too out of date for that API.
1378 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1380 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1381 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1382 atomic section will be aborted.
1384 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1385 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1387 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1389 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1390 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1391 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1392 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1393 messages into the same thread.
1398 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1399 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1400 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1401 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1402 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1403 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1408 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1409 from the config file. Use something like:
1413 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1414 "footer": "</body></html>",
1423 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1428 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1429 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1430 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1432 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1433 ===========================
1438 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1440 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1442 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1444 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1445 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1447 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1449 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1452 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1453 ===========================
1455 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1460 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1462 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1464 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1466 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1468 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1474 Use --quick when starting emacs
1476 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1478 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1480 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1482 Command-Line Interface
1483 ----------------------
1485 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1486 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1491 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1493 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1494 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1496 Fix for phrase indexing
1498 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1499 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1500 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1505 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1507 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1508 unintentionally removed.
1510 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1511 =========================
1516 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1517 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1518 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1519 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1520 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1521 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1522 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1523 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1524 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1530 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1532 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1533 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1534 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1535 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1536 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1537 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1538 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1539 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1541 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1543 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1544 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1545 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1546 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1549 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1551 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1552 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1553 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1554 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1555 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1556 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1557 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1562 Notmuch database upgrade
1564 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1565 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1566 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1567 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1568 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1569 released version of Notmuch before now.
1571 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1573 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1574 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1575 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1576 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1578 Message header parsing changes
1580 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1581 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1582 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1583 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1584 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1585 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1587 Command-Line Interface
1588 ----------------------
1590 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1592 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1594 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1596 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1598 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1600 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1601 user does not want it.
1603 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1605 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1606 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1607 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1608 support formatted output.
1610 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1612 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1613 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1614 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1622 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1623 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1624 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1625 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1626 `~/.emacs` with these.
1628 Changed format for saved searches
1630 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1631 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1632 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1633 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1636 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1637 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1638 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1639 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1641 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1642 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1643 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1645 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1646 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1647 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1648 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1649 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1651 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1653 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1654 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1655 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1657 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1659 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1660 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1661 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1662 message had been unread).
1664 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1665 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1666 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1667 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1669 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1670 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1671 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1673 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1674 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1675 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1676 to tags already present.
1680 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1681 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1682 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1683 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1684 these differ from each other.
1685 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1687 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1689 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1690 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1691 for these Emacs versions.
1693 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1695 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1696 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1698 Bug fixes for sender identities
1700 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1701 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1702 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1704 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1706 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1707 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1708 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1709 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1711 Reply pushes mark before signature
1713 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1714 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1715 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1717 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1719 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1720 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1726 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1727 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1729 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1730 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1731 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1732 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1734 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1735 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1736 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1737 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1738 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1740 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1742 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1743 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1745 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1746 =========================
1748 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1749 ---------------------------------------
1751 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1752 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1753 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1754 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1755 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1756 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1757 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1761 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1762 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1764 Command-Line Interface
1765 ----------------------
1767 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1769 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1770 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1771 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1772 print for each message.
1774 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1775 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1776 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1777 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1779 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1781 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1782 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1783 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1785 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1787 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1788 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1789 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1790 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1792 `notmuch compact` command
1794 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1795 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1796 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1797 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1798 move the compacted database into place.
1803 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1805 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1806 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1807 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1808 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1809 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1810 and multiple threads.
1812 Using `notmuch-tree`
1814 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1816 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1817 search, show and tree mode itself)
1819 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1822 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1823 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1825 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1827 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1828 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1829 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1830 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1831 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1832 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1833 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1835 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1837 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1838 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1839 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1840 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1841 thread when the search was performed.
1843 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1845 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1846 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1847 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1849 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1851 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1852 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1855 Built-in help improvements
1857 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1858 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1859 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1861 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1863 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1864 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1865 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1867 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1869 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1870 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1872 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1874 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1875 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1876 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1877 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1879 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1881 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1882 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1883 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1884 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1886 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1888 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1889 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1890 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1892 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1894 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1895 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1896 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1898 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1900 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1901 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1902 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1903 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1904 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1906 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1908 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1909 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1910 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1911 the body part of the message.
1916 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1917 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1918 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1920 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1921 =========================
1923 Command-Line Interface
1924 ----------------------
1926 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1928 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1929 folder and notmuch index.
1931 `notmuch count --batch` option
1933 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1934 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1936 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1938 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1939 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1940 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1943 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1945 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1946 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1947 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1948 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1949 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1952 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1954 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1955 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1957 Top level option to specify configuration file
1959 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1960 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1962 Bash command-line completion
1964 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1965 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1966 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1967 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1968 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1969 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1970 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1971 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1972 bash-completion package.
1974 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1979 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1981 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1982 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1983 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1984 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1985 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1986 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1987 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1988 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1990 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1992 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1993 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1994 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1996 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1998 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1999 previous thread in the search results.
2001 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2003 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2004 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2006 Faster search and show
2008 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2009 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2010 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2011 threads should show faster.
2015 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2016 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2017 in question was now removed from this release.
2022 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2023 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2028 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2030 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2031 ===========================
2036 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2038 Internal test framework changes
2039 -------------------------------
2041 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2042 being unimplemented.
2044 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2045 ===========================
2047 Internal test framework changes
2048 -------------------------------
2050 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2051 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2053 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2054 =========================
2059 Date range search support
2061 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2062 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2063 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2064 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2065 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2068 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2070 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2071 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2072 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2073 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2074 but may be removed in a future release.
2076 Command-Line Interface
2077 ----------------------
2079 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2081 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2082 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2084 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2086 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2087 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2088 officially deprecated.
2090 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2092 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2093 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2094 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2096 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2098 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2099 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2102 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2103 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2104 dump/restore format.
2106 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2108 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2109 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2110 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2112 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2114 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2115 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2116 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2118 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2120 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2121 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2122 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2123 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2128 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2130 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2131 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2132 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2133 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2135 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2137 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2138 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2139 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2140 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2141 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2142 the behavior of this, see
2143 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2144 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2146 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2147 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2148 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2150 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2152 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2153 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2156 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2158 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2159 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2160 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2161 simply displayed in place of the message.
2163 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2165 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2166 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2168 Improved text/calendar content handling
2170 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2171 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2172 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2173 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2175 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2177 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2178 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2179 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2180 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2182 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2184 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2185 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2186 for HTML email containing images.
2188 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2190 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2192 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2194 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2197 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2199 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2200 the point where it was.
2202 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2204 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2205 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2206 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2207 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2208 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2210 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2212 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2213 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2214 thread instead of the message id.
2216 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2217 -----------------------------
2219 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2220 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2221 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2222 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2223 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2224 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2225 further details and installation.
2230 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2232 Internal test framework changes
2233 -------------------------------
2235 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2237 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2238 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2239 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2240 can result in buggy behavior.
2242 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2243 =========================
2248 Maildir tag synchronization
2250 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2251 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2252 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2253 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2254 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2255 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2258 Command-Line Interface
2259 ----------------------
2261 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2262 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2263 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2264 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2265 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2271 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2273 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2275 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2276 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2277 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2279 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2281 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2282 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2283 span multiple lines.
2285 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2287 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2288 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2289 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2290 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2291 inside the result or message.
2293 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2295 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2296 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2298 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2299 user-specified formatting
2301 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2302 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2303 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2304 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2305 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2307 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2308 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2310 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2311 ===========================
2316 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2317 compilation error for this contrib package.
2319 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2320 ===========================
2325 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2327 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2328 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2329 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2330 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2332 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2333 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2336 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2337 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2338 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2339 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2342 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2344 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2347 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2348 =========================
2350 Command-Line Interface
2351 ----------------------
2355 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2356 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2357 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2358 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2360 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2361 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2362 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2363 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2367 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2368 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2370 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2371 tag in your query, for example:
2373 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2375 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2376 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2378 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2379 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2381 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2383 Raw show format changes
2385 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2386 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2387 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2388 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2389 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2390 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2391 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2392 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2394 Listing configuration items
2396 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2402 Changes to tagging interface
2404 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2405 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2406 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2407 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2408 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2409 for more information.
2411 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2412 may need to update in custom configurations.
2414 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2416 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2417 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2418 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2419 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2422 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2423 -----------------------------
2425 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2426 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2427 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2428 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2429 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2430 contrib/ from now on.
2435 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2436 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2438 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2439 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2441 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2442 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2443 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2445 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2446 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2448 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2449 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2450 returning the new database object or directory object.
2457 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2458 compatible with go 1.
2460 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2461 =========================
2463 Command-Line Interface
2464 ----------------------
2468 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2469 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2470 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2471 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2473 Mail store folder/file ignore
2475 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2476 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2477 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2479 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2480 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2482 Unified help and manual pages
2484 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2485 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2488 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2490 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2491 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2499 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2500 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2501 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2502 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2504 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2506 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2507 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2509 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2512 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2513 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2514 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2516 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2518 should be changed to:
2520 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2522 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2524 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2525 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2527 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2529 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2530 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2531 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2532 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2533 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2534 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2538 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2539 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2540 of Mailing List Archives.
2542 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2544 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2545 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2548 Show view archiving key binding changes
2550 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2551 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2552 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2553 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2554 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2557 Support text/calendar MIME type
2559 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2562 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2564 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2565 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2566 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2567 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2569 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2571 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2572 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2573 messages blue by default in the search view.
2577 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2578 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2585 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2588 Python bindings changes
2589 -----------------------
2591 Python 3.2 compatibility
2593 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2595 Added missing unicode conversions
2597 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2598 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2599 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2604 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2606 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2607 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2608 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2609 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2610 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2612 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2613 ===========================
2618 Fix error handling in python bindings
2620 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2621 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2622 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2623 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2625 Quote MML tags in replies
2627 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2628 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2629 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2630 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2631 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2632 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2633 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2634 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2636 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2637 =========================
2639 Command-Line Interface
2640 ----------------------
2644 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2645 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2646 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2647 importing new messages into the database.
2649 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2651 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2652 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2653 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2658 Automatic tag query optimization
2660 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2661 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2662 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2664 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2666 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2667 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2668 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2673 Reduction of memory leaks
2675 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2676 and fixed in this release.
2683 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2684 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2685 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2688 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2690 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2691 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2692 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2695 Improvements in saved search management
2697 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2698 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2699 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2701 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2703 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2704 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2705 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2707 New face for crypto parts headers
2709 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2710 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2711 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2714 Use space as default thousands separator
2716 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2717 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2718 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2720 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2721 buttonized id: links
2723 New function notmuch-show-advance
2725 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2726 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2727 be bound to SPC with:
2729 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2731 Various performance improvements
2736 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2737 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2740 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2741 ===========================
2746 Fix crash in python bindings
2748 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2749 for some, but not all users.
2751 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2752 ===========================
2757 Fix `--help` argument
2759 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2760 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2761 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2763 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2764 =========================
2766 New build and testing features
2767 ------------------------------
2769 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2770 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2771 prerequisites is improved.
2773 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2775 New command-line features
2776 -------------------------
2778 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2780 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2781 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2784 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2786 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2787 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2788 favour of using stdout.
2790 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2792 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2793 limit the number of results shown.
2795 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2797 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2798 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2801 New emacs UI features
2802 ---------------------
2804 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2806 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2807 starting with "tag:".
2809 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2811 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2812 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2814 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2816 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2818 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2820 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2821 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2826 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2828 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2830 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2831 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2832 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2833 requires a database rebuild:
2835 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2836 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2838 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2840 New collection of add-on tools
2841 ------------------------------
2843 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2844 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2845 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2848 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2850 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2851 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2852 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2854 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2855 ========================
2857 New, general features
2858 ---------------------
2860 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2862 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2863 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2864 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2865 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2866 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2873 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2874 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2876 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2880 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2881 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2882 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2885 Python bindings changes
2886 -----------------------
2888 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2890 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2891 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2892 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2893 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2894 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2895 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2897 Ruby bindings changes
2898 ---------------------
2900 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2901 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2902 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2903 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2908 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2910 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2911 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2913 Reply formatting cleanup
2914 ------------------------
2916 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2917 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2919 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2920 ========================
2922 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2924 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2925 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2926 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2927 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2930 Improved Build system portability
2932 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2933 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2934 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2936 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2938 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2940 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2942 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2943 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2944 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2946 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2947 ========================
2949 Vim interface improvements
2950 --------------------------
2952 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2954 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2955 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2956 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2957 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2958 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2960 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2962 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2963 * fix compose temp file name
2965 Python Bindings changes
2966 -----------------------
2968 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2970 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2971 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2973 Build-System improvements
2974 -------------------------
2976 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2978 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2981 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2982 ==========================
2987 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2989 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2990 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2992 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2993 =======================
2995 New, general features
2996 ---------------------
2998 Folder-based searching
3000 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3001 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3002 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3006 For example, one might use things such as:
3012 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3013 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3015 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3016 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3017 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3018 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3020 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3021 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3022 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3025 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3026 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3028 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3030 Support for PGP/MIME
3032 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3033 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3034 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3036 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3038 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3039 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3041 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3042 notmuch will receive these tags.
3044 New command-line features
3045 -------------------------
3047 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3049 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3050 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3052 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3054 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3055 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3056 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3058 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3060 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3061 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3062 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3063 which parts a signature part applies).
3065 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3067 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3068 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3069 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3070 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3071 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3074 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3076 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3077 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3078 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3079 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3080 by translating it internally to the new call.
3082 Performance improvements
3083 ------------------------
3085 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3087 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3088 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3089 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3091 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3092 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3094 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3096 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3097 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3098 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3100 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3101 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3102 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3103 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3105 Faster initial indexing
3107 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3108 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3109 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3111 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3113 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3114 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3115 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3116 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3118 New emacs-interface features
3119 ----------------------------
3121 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3123 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3124 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3125 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3126 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3127 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3128 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3130 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3132 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3133 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3134 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3135 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3137 User-selectable From address
3139 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3140 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3141 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3142 will prompt for the from address to use.
3144 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3145 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3146 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3148 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3149 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3150 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3153 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3155 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3156 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3158 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3160 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3162 ----- Original Message -----
3164 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3165 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3166 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3167 citations work much like conventional citations.
3169 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3171 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3172 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3173 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3174 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3175 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3177 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3178 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3180 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3182 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3183 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3184 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3186 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3188 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3189 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3190 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3191 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3192 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3194 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3196 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3199 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3201 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3203 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3205 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3208 Vim interface improvements
3209 --------------------------
3211 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3213 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3214 * Implementing archive in show view
3215 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3216 * Add delete commands
3219 Bindings improvements
3220 ---------------------
3222 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3224 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3225 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3227 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3229 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3233 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3234 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3235 `list(Messages)` works now
3236 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3238 These allow, for example:
3240 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3242 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3244 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3250 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3252 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3255 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3257 New build-system features
3258 -------------------------
3260 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3262 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3263 the configure script from some other directory:
3270 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3272 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3273 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3274 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3275 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3276 manual invocation of configure.
3278 New test-suite feature
3279 ----------------------
3281 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3283 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3284 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3285 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3286 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3287 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3290 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3292 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3293 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3294 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3295 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3296 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3297 are updated to take advantage of this.
3299 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3301 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3302 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3303 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3304 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3310 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3312 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3313 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3314 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3316 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3318 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3320 to:user@elsewhere.com
3322 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3324 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3326 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3328 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3329 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3330 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3333 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3334 from the Received headers in some cases
3336 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3337 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3339 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3341 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3343 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3345 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3346 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3347 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3349 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3350 -------------------------
3352 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3354 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3355 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3356 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3358 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3360 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3361 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3362 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3365 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3367 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3368 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3369 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3370 fixed to avoid this bug.
3372 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3374 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3375 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3377 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3378 ========================
3380 New, general features
3381 ---------------------
3383 Maildir-flag synchronization
3385 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3386 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3395 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3397 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3398 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3399 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3400 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3402 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3403 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3404 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3405 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3408 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3410 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3411 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3412 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3414 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3415 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3417 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3418 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3420 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3421 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3422 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3424 New library features
3425 --------------------
3427 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3429 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3430 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3431 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3432 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3434 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3435 message with the new function:
3437 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3439 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3440 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3441 over all available filenames for a given message.
3443 New command-line features
3444 -------------------------
3446 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3448 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3449 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3450 access to the mail store itself.
3452 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3453 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3454 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3455 name of a script containing:
3457 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3459 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3460 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3466 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3468 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3470 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3472 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3473 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3474 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3475 now produces nothing).
3477 Emacs interface improvements
3478 ----------------------------
3480 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3482 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3484 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3486 Display current thread subject in a header line
3488 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3490 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3492 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3493 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3494 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3495 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3496 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3497 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3498 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3500 Vim interface improvements
3501 --------------------------
3503 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3505 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3506 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3512 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3514 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3515 ========================
3517 New command-line features
3518 -------------------------
3520 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3522 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3523 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3524 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3526 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3527 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3528 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3529 scripts. For example:
3531 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3532 <operations-on> "$file"
3535 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3537 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3538 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3539 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3540 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3541 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3542 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3544 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3546 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3547 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3548 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3549 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3551 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3553 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3554 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3555 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3556 default rather than Bcc.
3558 New library features
3559 --------------------
3561 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3563 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3564 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3569 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3571 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3572 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3573 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3574 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3575 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3576 notmuch customize interface.
3578 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3580 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3581 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3582 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3583 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3585 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3587 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3588 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3589 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3590 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3592 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3594 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3595 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3596 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3597 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3598 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3599 notmuch customize interface.
3601 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3603 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3604 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3605 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3606 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3607 notmuch customize interface.
3609 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3611 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3612 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3613 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3614 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3617 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3619 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3620 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3621 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3624 New build-system features
3625 -------------------------
3627 Various portability fixes have been applied
3629 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3630 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3631 more portable than ever before.
3633 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3635 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3636 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3637 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3639 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3640 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3641 automatically run ldconfig.
3643 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3644 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3645 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3647 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3648 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3649 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3650 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3652 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3654 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3655 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3656 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3657 used in the resulting Makefile.
3659 New test-suite features
3660 -----------------------
3662 New modularization of test suite
3664 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3665 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3666 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3667 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3668 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3669 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3670 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3671 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3673 New testing of emacs interface
3675 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3676 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3677 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3678 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3679 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3680 database via the FCC setting.
3685 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3687 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3688 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3689 persistent error of the form:
3691 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3693 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3694 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3696 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3698 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3699 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3700 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3702 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3704 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3705 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3706 parsing the notmuch results).
3708 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3710 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3713 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3714 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3715 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3720 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3722 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3723 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3724 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3725 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3726 the emacs interface.
3728 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3730 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3731 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3732 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3734 Python-binding fixes
3735 --------------------
3737 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3739 Debian-specific fixes
3740 ---------------------
3742 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3744 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3745 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3746 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3749 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3750 ==========================
3755 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3757 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3758 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3759 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3760 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3762 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3764 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3765 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3766 want notmuch to crash.
3771 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3773 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3774 directory does not exist
3779 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3781 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3782 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3784 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3785 ========================
3787 New command-line features
3788 -------------------------
3790 User-configurable tags for new messages
3792 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3793 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3794 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3795 to specify this value.
3797 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3799 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3800 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3801 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3803 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3805 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3806 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3808 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3810 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3811 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3812 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3813 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3814 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3817 Indication of author names that match a search
3819 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3820 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3821 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3822 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3823 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3824 messages in the thread are listed first.
3826 New: Python bindings
3827 --------------------
3829 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3830 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3831 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3832 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3834 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3835 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3836 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3839 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3840 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3841 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3843 Emacs interface improvements
3844 ----------------------------
3846 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3848 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3849 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3850 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3851 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3852 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3853 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3854 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3855 but without any of the disadvantages).
3857 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3858 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3859 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3862 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3863 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3864 instead running something like:
3866 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3868 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3869 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3870 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3873 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3875 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3876 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3877 tweaked by the user.
3879 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3880 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3881 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3884 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3885 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3886 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3889 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3891 This support currently relies on an external program,
3892 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3893 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3894 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3895 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3896 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3899 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3900 notmuch) is available via:
3902 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3904 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3905 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3906 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3908 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3910 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3911 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3912 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3913 making this automatic in a future release.
3915 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3917 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3918 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3919 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3920 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3921 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3922 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3925 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3927 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3928 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3929 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3931 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3933 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3934 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3935 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3937 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3938 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3939 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3940 other representation.
3942 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3943 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3946 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3948 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3949 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3950 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3952 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3953 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3954 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3956 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3958 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3959 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3960 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3961 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3962 to display the search result.
3964 More flexible handling of header visibility
3966 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3967 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3968 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3969 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3970 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3971 with the 'h' keybinding.
3973 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3974 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3975 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3977 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3979 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3981 Customizable formatting of search results
3983 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3984 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3985 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3987 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3989 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3991 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3996 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3998 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3999 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4000 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4001 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4007 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4009 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4010 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4012 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4014 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4015 accept are now all accepted.
4020 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4022 Better display of output from failed tests
4024 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4025 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4027 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4028 ========================
4030 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4031 detailed release notes this time!
4033 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4034 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4036 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4037 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4038 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4039 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4046 Better guessing of From: header
4048 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4049 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4050 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4051 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4052 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4055 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4057 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4058 guaranteed to match all messages.
4060 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4062 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4063 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4064 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4065 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4066 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4069 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4072 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4073 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4074 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4075 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4080 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4082 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4083 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4084 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4085 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4087 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4089 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4091 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4092 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4093 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4095 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4097 Previously, the user might see:
4099 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4103 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4105 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4106 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4107 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4108 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4110 Emacs client features
4111 ---------------------
4113 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4115 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4116 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4117 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4118 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4119 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4121 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4124 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4125 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4126 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4127 search with the '*' binding.
4129 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4131 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4132 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4135 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4137 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4138 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4139 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4141 Build-system features
4142 ---------------------
4144 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4146 Add support to configure for many standard options
4148 We include actual support for:
4150 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4152 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4154 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4155 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4157 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4158 separate "make install-emacs"
4160 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4162 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4163 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4164 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4166 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4169 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4170 ========================
4172 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4174 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4175 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4177 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4178 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4179 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4180 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4181 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4182 tags from messages in a thread.
4189 indent-tabs-mode: nil