1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Support for re-indexing existing messages
19 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
20 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
21 change the way specific messages are indexed.
23 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
24 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
25 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
30 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
32 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
33 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
34 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
35 on a per-message basis with the --decrypt argument to indexing
36 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
37 config set index.decrypt true".
39 Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly
40 reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure
41 that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE
42 this feature without considering the security of your index.
47 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
48 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
50 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
51 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
52 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
53 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
54 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
55 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
57 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
58 ===========================
63 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
64 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
67 Command Line Interface
68 ----------------------
70 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
71 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
74 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
75 ===========================
77 Command Line Interface
78 ----------------------
80 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
81 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
86 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
89 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
90 ===========================
95 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
98 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
99 =========================
104 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
106 Skip HTML tags when indexing
108 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
110 Command Line Interface
111 ----------------------
113 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
115 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
120 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
122 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
123 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
126 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
131 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
133 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
134 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
136 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
138 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
139 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
142 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
144 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
146 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
148 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
149 ===========================
151 Command Line Interface
152 ----------------------
154 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
159 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
161 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
162 ===========================
167 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
169 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
170 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
173 Command Line Interface
174 ----------------------
176 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
178 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
180 Fix bug in dump header
182 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
183 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
184 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
189 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
191 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
192 =========================
197 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
199 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
202 Command Line Interface
203 ----------------------
205 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
207 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
208 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
209 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
211 New default output format to 3
213 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
214 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
215 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
216 default format changes.
221 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
223 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
224 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
225 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
226 or tree view to resume.
228 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
229 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
230 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
233 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
234 they were when you postponed in the final message.
238 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
239 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
240 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
241 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
242 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
246 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
247 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
248 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
249 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
250 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
251 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
255 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
256 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
258 Stop display of `application/*` parts
260 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
261 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
262 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
263 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
264 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
265 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
266 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
267 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
270 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
272 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
273 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
274 only tagged the current thread.)
276 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
278 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
279 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
280 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
282 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
284 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
285 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
286 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
287 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
288 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
289 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
290 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
292 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
294 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
295 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
296 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
301 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
303 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
306 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
308 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
311 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
312 ===========================
317 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
319 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
320 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
321 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
324 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
325 ===========================
327 Command Line Interface
328 ----------------------
330 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
335 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
337 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
338 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
339 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
341 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
342 ===========================
347 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
348 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
350 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
351 ===========================
353 Command Line Interface
354 ----------------------
356 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
358 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
359 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
360 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
365 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
367 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
368 ===========================
370 Command Line Interface
371 ----------------------
373 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
378 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
380 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
381 ===========================
386 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
388 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
389 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
390 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
392 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
394 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
396 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
397 ===========================
402 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
404 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
409 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
411 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
412 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
413 the original colours.
415 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
416 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
418 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
420 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
421 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
422 bug, and hence the test.
424 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
425 =========================
427 General (Xapian 1.4+)
428 ---------------------
430 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
432 Support for single argument date: queries
434 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
436 Support for blocking opens
438 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
439 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
441 Support for named queries
443 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
444 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
445 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
452 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
453 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
454 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
455 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
457 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
459 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
464 Support for compile time options
466 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
467 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
470 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
472 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
473 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
474 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
475 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
476 scripts to ignore it.
481 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
483 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
484 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
485 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
487 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
488 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
489 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
490 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
491 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
492 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
493 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
495 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
496 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
499 Make internal address completion customizable
501 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
502 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
503 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
504 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
507 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
509 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
510 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
511 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
512 completion for the current buffer.
514 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
515 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
516 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
520 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
521 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
522 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
523 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
524 will be added instead.
526 Face customization is easier
528 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
529 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
530 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
531 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
533 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
538 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
543 Go bindings moved to contrib
545 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
547 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
549 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
550 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
552 The same issue occured with sort modes.
554 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
555 ===========================
562 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
563 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
565 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
567 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
569 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
570 ===========================
575 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
577 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
582 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
587 Use `env` to locate perl.
592 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
594 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
596 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
598 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
600 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
601 =========================
608 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
609 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
611 Limited support for S/MIME messages
613 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
614 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
615 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
620 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
621 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
622 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
624 Command Line Interface
625 ----------------------
627 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
629 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
634 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
639 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
641 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
642 parts are now included in replies.
644 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
645 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
646 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
647 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
649 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
651 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
653 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
655 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
656 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
657 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
658 forwards only the current message.
660 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
662 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
663 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
664 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
665 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
666 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
667 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
668 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
669 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
672 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
673 longer generate empty buffers
675 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
676 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
677 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
678 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
679 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
681 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
683 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
686 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
688 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
691 Address completion improvements
693 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
694 you previously configured one, customize the variable
695 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
696 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
697 interactive address completion.
699 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
701 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
702 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
703 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
708 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
709 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
710 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
716 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
717 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
718 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
719 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
720 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
721 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
723 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
724 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
725 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
726 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
727 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
728 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
730 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
731 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
733 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
734 =========================
739 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
742 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
744 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
745 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
746 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
748 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
749 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
751 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
752 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
753 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
755 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
757 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
758 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
759 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
760 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
761 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
762 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
767 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
768 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
771 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
774 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
776 Command Line Interface
777 ----------------------
779 Database revision tracking
781 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
782 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
783 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
784 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
786 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
788 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
789 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
790 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
791 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
792 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
793 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
794 manual page for further information.
799 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
801 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
802 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
804 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
806 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
807 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
808 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
810 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
812 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
814 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
815 customization as well.
817 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
819 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
821 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
823 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
825 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
826 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
827 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
828 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
830 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
832 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
833 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
834 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
835 this variable to 10000.
840 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
841 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
843 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
845 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
846 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
847 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
848 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
849 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
850 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
851 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
852 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
853 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
856 Database revision tracking
858 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
859 query parser and the new function
860 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
862 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
866 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
867 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
868 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
869 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
874 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
876 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
877 ===========================
882 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
884 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
885 ===========================
890 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
892 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
893 =========================
895 Command-Line Interface
896 ----------------------
898 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
900 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
901 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
902 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
904 Path to gpg is now configurable
906 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
907 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
912 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
914 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
919 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
924 Support messages without Message-IDs.
929 Undeprecate single message mboxes
931 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
932 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
934 New error logging facility
936 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
937 output formerly printed to stderr.
939 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
941 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
943 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
945 Fix for rounding of seconds
950 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
952 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
953 docmumentation has been removed.
955 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
957 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
958 some material from the relicensed wiki.
963 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
964 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
965 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
970 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
971 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
972 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
973 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
974 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
975 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
978 git checkout config origin/config
980 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
982 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
983 =========================
988 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
989 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
990 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
991 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
992 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
993 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
994 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
996 Command-Line Interface
997 ----------------------
999 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1001 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1002 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1003 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1004 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1005 script callers should still check the return value.
1007 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1009 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1010 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1011 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1012 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1013 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1014 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1015 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1017 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1019 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1020 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1021 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1023 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1025 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1026 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1027 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1028 currently unmaintained.
1030 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1032 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1033 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1034 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1035 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1037 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1039 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1040 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1041 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1042 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1043 count of duplicate addresses.
1048 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1050 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1051 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1052 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1055 Improved handling of the unread tag
1057 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1058 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1059 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1060 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1061 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1062 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1063 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1065 Expanded default saved search settings
1067 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1068 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1070 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1072 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1073 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1074 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1076 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1078 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1079 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1080 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1081 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1082 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1083 the variable for details.
1088 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1090 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1091 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1092 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1093 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1095 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1097 Previously, library users were required to call
1098 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1099 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1100 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1101 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1102 too out of date for that API.
1104 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1106 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1107 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1108 atomic section will be aborted.
1110 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1111 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1113 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1115 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1116 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1117 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1118 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1119 messages into the same thread.
1124 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1125 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1126 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1127 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1128 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1129 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1134 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1135 from the config file. Use something like:
1139 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1140 "footer": "</body></html>",
1149 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1154 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1155 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1156 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1158 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1159 ===========================
1164 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1166 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1168 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1170 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1171 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1173 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1175 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1178 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1179 ===========================
1181 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1186 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1188 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1190 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1192 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1194 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1200 Use --quick when starting emacs
1202 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1204 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1206 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1208 Command-Line Interface
1209 ----------------------
1211 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1212 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1217 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1219 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1220 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1222 Fix for phrase indexing
1224 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1225 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1226 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1231 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1233 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1234 unintentionally removed.
1236 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1237 =========================
1242 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1243 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1244 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1245 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1246 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1247 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1248 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1249 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1250 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1256 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1258 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1259 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1260 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1261 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1262 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1263 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1264 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1265 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1267 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1269 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1270 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1271 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1272 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1275 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1277 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1278 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1279 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1280 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1281 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1282 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1283 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1288 Notmuch database upgrade
1290 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1291 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1292 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1293 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1294 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1295 released version of Notmuch before now.
1297 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1299 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1300 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1301 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1302 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1304 Message header parsing changes
1306 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1307 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1308 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1309 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1310 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1311 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1313 Command-Line Interface
1314 ----------------------
1316 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1318 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1320 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1322 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1324 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1326 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1327 user does not want it.
1329 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1331 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1332 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1333 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1334 support formatted output.
1336 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1338 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1339 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1340 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1348 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1349 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1350 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1351 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1352 `~/.emacs` with these.
1354 Changed format for saved searches
1356 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1357 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1358 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1359 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1362 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1363 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1364 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1365 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1367 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1368 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1369 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1371 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1372 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1373 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1374 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1375 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1377 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1379 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1380 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1381 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1383 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1385 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1386 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1387 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1388 message had been unread).
1390 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1391 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1392 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1393 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1395 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1396 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1397 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1399 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1400 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1401 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1402 to tags already present.
1406 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1407 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1408 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1409 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1410 these differ from each other.
1411 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1413 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1415 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1416 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1417 for these Emacs versions.
1419 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1421 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1422 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1424 Bug fixes for sender identities
1426 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1427 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1428 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1430 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1432 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1433 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1434 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1435 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1437 Reply pushes mark before signature
1439 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1440 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1441 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1443 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1445 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1446 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1452 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1453 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1455 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1456 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1457 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1458 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1460 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1461 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1462 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1463 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1464 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1466 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1468 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1469 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1471 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1472 =========================
1474 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1475 ---------------------------------------
1477 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1478 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1479 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1480 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1481 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1482 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1483 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1487 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1488 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1490 Command-Line Interface
1491 ----------------------
1493 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1495 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1496 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1497 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1498 print for each message.
1500 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1501 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1502 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1503 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1505 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1507 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1508 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1509 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1511 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1513 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1514 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1515 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1516 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1518 `notmuch compact` command
1520 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1521 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1522 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1523 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1524 move the compacted database into place.
1529 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1531 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1532 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1533 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1534 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1535 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1536 and multiple threads.
1538 Using `notmuch-tree`
1540 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1542 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1543 search, show and tree mode itself)
1545 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1548 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1549 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1551 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1553 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1554 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1555 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1556 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1557 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1558 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1559 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1561 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1563 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1564 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1565 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1566 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1567 thread when the search was performed.
1569 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1571 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1572 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1573 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1575 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1577 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1578 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1581 Built-in help improvements
1583 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1584 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1585 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1587 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1589 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1590 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1591 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1593 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1595 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1596 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1598 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1600 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1601 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1602 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1603 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1605 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1607 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1608 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1609 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1610 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1612 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1614 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1615 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1616 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1618 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1620 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1621 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1622 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1624 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1626 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1627 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1628 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1629 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1630 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1632 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1634 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1635 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1636 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1637 the body part of the message.
1642 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1643 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1644 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1646 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1647 =========================
1649 Command-Line Interface
1650 ----------------------
1652 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1654 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1655 folder and notmuch index.
1657 `notmuch count --batch` option
1659 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1660 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1662 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1664 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1665 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1666 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1669 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1671 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1672 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1673 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1674 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1675 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1678 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1680 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1681 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1683 Top level option to specify configuration file
1685 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1686 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1688 Bash command-line completion
1690 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1691 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1692 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1693 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1694 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1695 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1696 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1697 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1698 bash-completion package.
1700 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1705 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1707 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1708 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1709 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1710 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1711 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1712 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1713 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1714 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1716 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1718 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1719 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1720 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1722 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1724 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1725 previous thread in the search results.
1727 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1729 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1730 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1732 Faster search and show
1734 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1735 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1736 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1737 threads should show faster.
1741 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1742 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1743 in question was now removed from this release.
1748 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1749 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1754 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1756 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1757 ===========================
1762 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1764 Internal test framework changes
1765 -------------------------------
1767 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1768 being unimplemented.
1770 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1771 ===========================
1773 Internal test framework changes
1774 -------------------------------
1776 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1777 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1779 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1780 =========================
1785 Date range search support
1787 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1788 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1789 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1790 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1791 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1794 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1796 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1797 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1798 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1799 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1800 but may be removed in a future release.
1802 Command-Line Interface
1803 ----------------------
1805 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1807 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1808 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1810 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1812 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1813 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1814 officially deprecated.
1816 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1818 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1819 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1820 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1822 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1824 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1825 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1828 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1829 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1830 dump/restore format.
1832 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1834 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1835 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1836 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1838 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1840 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1841 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1842 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1844 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1846 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1847 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1848 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1849 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1854 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1856 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1857 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1858 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1859 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1861 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1863 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1864 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1865 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1866 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1867 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1868 the behavior of this, see
1869 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1870 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1872 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1873 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1874 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1876 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1878 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1879 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1882 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1884 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1885 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1886 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1887 simply displayed in place of the message.
1889 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1891 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1892 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1894 Improved text/calendar content handling
1896 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1897 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1898 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1899 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1901 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1903 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1904 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1905 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1906 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1908 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1910 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1911 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1912 for HTML email containing images.
1914 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1916 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1918 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1920 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1923 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1925 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1926 the point where it was.
1928 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1930 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1931 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1932 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1933 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1934 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1936 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1938 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1939 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1940 thread instead of the message id.
1942 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1943 -----------------------------
1945 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1946 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1947 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1948 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1949 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1950 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1951 further details and installation.
1956 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1958 Internal test framework changes
1959 -------------------------------
1961 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1963 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1964 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1965 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1966 can result in buggy behavior.
1968 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1969 =========================
1974 Maildir tag synchronization
1976 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1977 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1978 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1979 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1980 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1981 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1984 Command-Line Interface
1985 ----------------------
1987 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1988 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1989 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1990 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1991 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1997 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1999 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2001 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2002 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2003 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2005 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2007 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2008 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2009 span multiple lines.
2011 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2013 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2014 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2015 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2016 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2017 inside the result or message.
2019 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2021 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2022 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2024 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2025 user-specified formatting
2027 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2028 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2029 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2030 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2031 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2033 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2034 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2036 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2037 ===========================
2042 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2043 compilation error for this contrib package.
2045 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2046 ===========================
2051 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2053 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2054 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2055 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2056 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2058 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2059 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2062 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2063 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2064 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2065 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2068 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2070 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2073 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2074 =========================
2076 Command-Line Interface
2077 ----------------------
2081 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2082 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2083 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2084 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2086 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2087 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2088 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2089 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2093 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2094 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2096 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2097 tag in your query, for example:
2099 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2101 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2102 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2104 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2105 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2107 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2109 Raw show format changes
2111 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2112 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2113 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2114 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2115 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2116 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2117 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2118 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2120 Listing configuration items
2122 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2128 Changes to tagging interface
2130 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2131 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2132 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2133 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2134 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2135 for more information.
2137 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2138 may need to update in custom configurations.
2140 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2142 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2143 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2144 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2145 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2148 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2149 -----------------------------
2151 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2152 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2153 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2154 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2155 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2156 contrib/ from now on.
2161 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2162 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2164 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2165 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2167 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2168 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2169 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2171 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2172 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2174 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2175 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2176 returning the new database object or directory object.
2183 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2184 compatible with go 1.
2186 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2187 =========================
2189 Command-Line Interface
2190 ----------------------
2194 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2195 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2196 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2197 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2199 Mail store folder/file ignore
2201 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2202 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2203 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2205 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2206 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2208 Unified help and manual pages
2210 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2211 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2214 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2216 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2217 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2225 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2226 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2227 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2228 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2230 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2232 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2233 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2235 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2238 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2239 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2240 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2242 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2244 should be changed to:
2246 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2248 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2250 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2251 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2253 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2255 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2256 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2257 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2258 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2259 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2260 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2264 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2265 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2266 of Mailing List Archives.
2268 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2270 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2271 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2274 Show view archiving key binding changes
2276 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2277 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2278 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2279 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2280 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2283 Support text/calendar MIME type
2285 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2288 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2290 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2291 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2292 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2293 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2295 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2297 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2298 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2299 messages blue by default in the search view.
2303 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2304 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2311 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2314 Python bindings changes
2315 -----------------------
2317 Python 3.2 compatibility
2319 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2321 Added missing unicode conversions
2323 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2324 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2325 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2330 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2332 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2333 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2334 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2335 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2336 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2338 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2339 ===========================
2344 Fix error handling in python bindings
2346 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2347 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2348 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2349 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2351 Quote MML tags in replies
2353 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2354 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2355 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2356 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2357 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2358 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2359 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2360 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2362 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2363 =========================
2365 Command-Line Interface
2366 ----------------------
2370 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2371 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2372 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2373 importing new messages into the database.
2375 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2377 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2378 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2379 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2384 Automatic tag query optimization
2386 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2387 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2388 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2390 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2392 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2393 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2394 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2399 Reduction of memory leaks
2401 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2402 and fixed in this release.
2409 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2410 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2411 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2414 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2416 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2417 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2418 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2421 Improvements in saved search management
2423 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2424 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2425 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2427 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2429 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2430 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2431 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2433 New face for crypto parts headers
2435 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2436 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2437 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2440 Use space as default thousands separator
2442 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2443 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2444 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2446 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2447 buttonized id: links
2449 New function notmuch-show-advance
2451 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2452 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2453 be bound to SPC with:
2455 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2457 Various performance improvements
2462 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2463 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2466 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2467 ===========================
2472 Fix crash in python bindings
2474 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2475 for some, but not all users.
2477 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2478 ===========================
2483 Fix `--help` argument
2485 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2486 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2487 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2489 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2490 =========================
2492 New build and testing features
2493 ------------------------------
2495 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2496 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2497 prerequisites is improved.
2499 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2501 New command-line features
2502 -------------------------
2504 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2506 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2507 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2510 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2512 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2513 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2514 favour of using stdout.
2516 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2518 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2519 limit the number of results shown.
2521 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2523 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2524 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2527 New emacs UI features
2528 ---------------------
2530 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2532 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2533 starting with "tag:".
2535 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2537 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2538 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2540 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2542 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2544 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2546 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2547 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2552 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2554 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2556 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2557 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2558 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2559 requires a database rebuild:
2561 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2562 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2564 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2566 New collection of add-on tools
2567 ------------------------------
2569 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2570 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2571 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2574 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2576 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2577 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2578 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2580 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2581 ========================
2583 New, general features
2584 ---------------------
2586 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2588 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2589 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2590 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2591 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2592 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2599 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2600 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2602 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2606 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2607 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2608 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2611 Python bindings changes
2612 -----------------------
2614 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2616 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2617 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2618 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2619 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2620 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2621 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2623 Ruby bindings changes
2624 ---------------------
2626 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2627 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2628 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2629 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2634 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2636 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2637 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2639 Reply formatting cleanup
2640 ------------------------
2642 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2643 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2645 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2646 ========================
2648 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2650 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2651 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2652 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2653 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2656 Improved Build system portability
2658 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2659 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2660 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2662 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2664 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2666 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2668 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2669 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2670 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2672 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2673 ========================
2675 Vim interface improvements
2676 --------------------------
2678 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2680 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2681 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2682 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2683 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2684 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2686 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2688 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2689 * fix compose temp file name
2691 Python Bindings changes
2692 -----------------------
2694 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2696 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2697 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2699 Build-System improvements
2700 -------------------------
2702 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2704 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2707 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2708 ==========================
2713 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2715 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2716 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2718 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2719 =======================
2721 New, general features
2722 ---------------------
2724 Folder-based searching
2726 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2727 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2728 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2732 For example, one might use things such as:
2738 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2739 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2741 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2742 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2743 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2744 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2746 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2747 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2748 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2751 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2752 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2754 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2756 Support for PGP/MIME
2758 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2759 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2760 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2762 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2764 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2765 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2767 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2768 notmuch will receive these tags.
2770 New command-line features
2771 -------------------------
2773 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2775 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2776 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2778 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2780 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2781 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2782 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2784 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2786 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2787 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2788 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2789 which parts a signature part applies).
2791 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2793 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2794 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2795 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2796 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2797 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2800 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2802 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2803 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2804 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2805 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2806 by translating it internally to the new call.
2808 Performance improvements
2809 ------------------------
2811 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2813 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2814 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2815 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2817 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2818 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2820 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2822 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2823 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2824 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2826 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2827 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2828 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2829 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2831 Faster initial indexing
2833 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2834 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2835 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2837 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2839 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2840 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2841 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2842 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2844 New emacs-interface features
2845 ----------------------------
2847 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2849 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2850 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2851 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2852 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2853 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2854 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2856 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2858 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2859 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2860 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2861 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2863 User-selectable From address
2865 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2866 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2867 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2868 will prompt for the from address to use.
2870 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2871 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2872 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2874 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2875 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2876 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2879 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2881 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2882 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2884 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2886 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2888 ----- Original Message -----
2890 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2891 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2892 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2893 citations work much like conventional citations.
2895 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2897 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2898 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2899 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2900 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2901 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2903 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2904 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2906 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2908 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2909 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2910 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2912 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2914 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2915 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2916 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2917 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2918 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2920 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2922 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2925 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2927 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2929 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2931 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2934 Vim interface improvements
2935 --------------------------
2937 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2939 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2940 * Implementing archive in show view
2941 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2942 * Add delete commands
2945 Bindings improvements
2946 ---------------------
2948 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2950 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2951 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2953 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2955 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2959 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2960 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2961 `list(Messages)` works now
2962 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2964 These allow, for example:
2966 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2968 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2970 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2976 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2978 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2981 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2983 New build-system features
2984 -------------------------
2986 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2988 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2989 the configure script from some other directory:
2996 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2998 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2999 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3000 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3001 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3002 manual invocation of configure.
3004 New test-suite feature
3005 ----------------------
3007 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3009 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3010 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3011 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3012 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3013 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3016 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3018 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3019 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3020 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3021 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3022 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3023 are updated to take advantage of this.
3025 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3027 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3028 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3029 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3030 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3036 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3038 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3039 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3040 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3042 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3044 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3046 to:user@elsewhere.com
3048 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3050 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3052 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3054 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3055 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3056 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3059 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3060 from the Received headers in some cases
3062 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3063 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3065 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3067 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3069 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3071 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3072 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3073 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3075 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3076 -------------------------
3078 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3080 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3081 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3082 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3084 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3086 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3087 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3088 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3091 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3093 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3094 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3095 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3096 fixed to avoid this bug.
3098 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3100 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3101 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3103 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3104 ========================
3106 New, general features
3107 ---------------------
3109 Maildir-flag synchronization
3111 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3112 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3121 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3123 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3124 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3125 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3126 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3128 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3129 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3130 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3131 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3134 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3136 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3137 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3138 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3140 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3141 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3143 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3144 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3146 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3147 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3148 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3150 New library features
3151 --------------------
3153 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3155 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3156 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3157 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3158 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3160 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3161 message with the new function:
3163 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3165 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3166 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3167 over all available filenames for a given message.
3169 New command-line features
3170 -------------------------
3172 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3174 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3175 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3176 access to the mail store itself.
3178 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3179 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3180 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3181 name of a script containing:
3183 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3185 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3186 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3192 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3194 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3196 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3198 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3199 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3200 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3201 now produces nothing).
3203 Emacs interface improvements
3204 ----------------------------
3206 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3208 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3210 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3212 Display current thread subject in a header line
3214 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3216 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3218 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3219 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3220 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3221 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3222 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3223 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3224 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3226 Vim interface improvements
3227 --------------------------
3229 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3231 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3232 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3238 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3240 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3241 ========================
3243 New command-line features
3244 -------------------------
3246 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3248 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3249 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3250 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3252 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3253 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3254 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3255 scripts. For example:
3257 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3258 <operations-on> "$file"
3261 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3263 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3264 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3265 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3266 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3267 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3268 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3270 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3272 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3273 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3274 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3275 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3277 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3279 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3280 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3281 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3282 default rather than Bcc.
3284 New library features
3285 --------------------
3287 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3289 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3290 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3295 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3297 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3298 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3299 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3300 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3301 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3302 notmuch customize interface.
3304 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3306 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3307 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3308 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3309 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3311 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3313 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3314 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3315 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3316 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3318 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3320 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3321 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3322 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3323 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3324 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3325 notmuch customize interface.
3327 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3329 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3330 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3331 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3332 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3333 notmuch customize interface.
3335 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3337 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3338 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3339 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3340 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3343 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3345 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3346 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3347 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3350 New build-system features
3351 -------------------------
3353 Various portability fixes have been applied
3355 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3356 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3357 more portable than ever before.
3359 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3361 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3362 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3363 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3365 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3366 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3367 automatically run ldconfig.
3369 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3370 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3371 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3373 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3374 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3375 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3376 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3378 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3380 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3381 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3382 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3383 used in the resulting Makefile.
3385 New test-suite features
3386 -----------------------
3388 New modularization of test suite
3390 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3391 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3392 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3393 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3394 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3395 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3396 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3397 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3399 New testing of emacs interface
3401 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3402 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3403 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3404 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3405 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3406 database via the FCC setting.
3411 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3413 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3414 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3415 persistent error of the form:
3417 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3419 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3420 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3422 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3424 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3425 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3426 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3428 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3430 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3431 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3432 parsing the notmuch results).
3434 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3436 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3439 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3440 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3441 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3446 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3448 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3449 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3450 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3451 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3452 the emacs interface.
3454 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3456 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3457 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3458 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3460 Python-binding fixes
3461 --------------------
3463 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3465 Debian-specific fixes
3466 ---------------------
3468 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3470 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3471 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3472 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3475 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3476 ==========================
3481 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3483 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3484 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3485 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3486 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3488 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3490 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3491 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3492 want notmuch to crash.
3497 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3499 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3500 directory does not exist
3505 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3507 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3508 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3510 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3511 ========================
3513 New command-line features
3514 -------------------------
3516 User-configurable tags for new messages
3518 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3519 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3520 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3521 to specify this value.
3523 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3525 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3526 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3527 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3529 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3531 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3532 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3534 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3536 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3537 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3538 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3539 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3540 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3543 Indication of author names that match a search
3545 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3546 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3547 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3548 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3549 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3550 messages in the thread are listed first.
3552 New: Python bindings
3553 --------------------
3555 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3556 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3557 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3558 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3560 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3561 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3562 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3565 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3566 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3567 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3569 Emacs interface improvements
3570 ----------------------------
3572 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3574 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3575 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3576 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3577 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3578 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3579 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3580 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3581 but without any of the disadvantages).
3583 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3584 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3585 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3588 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3589 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3590 instead running something like:
3592 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3594 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3595 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3596 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3599 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3601 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3602 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3603 tweaked by the user.
3605 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3606 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3607 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3610 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3611 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3612 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3615 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3617 This support currently relies on an external program,
3618 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3619 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3620 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3621 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3622 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3625 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3626 notmuch) is available via:
3628 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3630 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3631 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3632 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3634 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3636 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3637 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3638 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3639 making this automatic in a future release.
3641 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3643 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3644 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3645 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3646 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3647 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3648 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3651 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3653 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3654 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3655 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3657 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3659 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3660 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3661 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3663 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3664 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3665 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3666 other representation.
3668 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3669 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3672 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3674 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3675 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3676 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3678 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3679 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3680 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3682 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3684 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3685 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3686 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3687 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3688 to display the search result.
3690 More flexible handling of header visibility
3692 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3693 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3694 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3695 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3696 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3697 with the 'h' keybinding.
3699 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3700 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3701 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3703 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3705 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3707 Customizable formatting of search results
3709 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3710 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3711 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3713 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3715 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3717 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3722 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3724 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3725 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3726 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3727 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3733 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3735 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3736 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3738 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3740 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3741 accept are now all accepted.
3746 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3748 Better display of output from failed tests
3750 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3751 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3753 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3754 ========================
3756 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3757 detailed release notes this time!
3759 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3760 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3762 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3763 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3764 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3765 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3772 Better guessing of From: header
3774 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3775 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3776 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3777 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3778 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3781 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3783 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3784 guaranteed to match all messages.
3786 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3788 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3789 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3790 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3791 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3792 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3795 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3798 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3799 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3800 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3801 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3806 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3808 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3809 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3810 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3811 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3813 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3815 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3817 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3818 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3819 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3821 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3823 Previously, the user might see:
3825 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3829 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3831 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3832 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3833 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3834 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3836 Emacs client features
3837 ---------------------
3839 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3841 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3842 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3843 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3844 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3845 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3847 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3850 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3851 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3852 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3853 search with the '*' binding.
3855 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3857 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3858 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3861 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3863 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3864 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3865 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3867 Build-system features
3868 ---------------------
3870 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3872 Add support to configure for many standard options
3874 We include actual support for:
3876 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3878 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3880 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3881 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3883 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3884 separate "make install-emacs"
3886 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3888 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3889 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3890 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3892 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3895 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3896 ========================
3898 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3900 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3901 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3903 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3904 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3905 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3906 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3907 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3908 tags from messages in a thread.
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